BBQueer: Dancing Around Race – a longtable conversation @ TWDCC
Schedule
Thu Sep 30 2021 at 08:00 pm to 09:30 pm
Location
Tannery World Dance & Cultural Center | Santa Cruz, CA
About this Event
Dancing Around Race – a longtable conversation
Dancing Around Race is a community-engaged participatory process that creates an opportunity for people from various dance/art/performance communities to discuss issues around systemic racism, power, and equity. Modeled after the longtable discussion as devised by visual artist Lois Weaver and facilitated by Gerald Casel, participants are invited to join in a candid conversation that acknowledges and challenges the role race plays in dance performance, production, and education. We ask: “What does it look/feel like to have racial equity in dance? How can we collectively confront racial capitalism, heteropatriarchy, white body supremacy, and settler colonial logics in dance? What does the future look like and how do we get there?”
About Gerald Casel:
Gerald Casel is a Bay Area-based dance artist, equity activator, and antiracist educator. As director of GERALDCASELDANCE, his choreographic work complicates and provokes questions surrounding colonialism, collective cultural amnesia, whiteness and privilege, and the tensions between the invisible/perceived/obvious structures of power. Casel is an Associate Professor of Dance and is the Provost of Porter College at UC Santa Cruz. A graduate of The Juilliard School with an MFA from UW Milwaukee, they received a Bessie award for sustained achievement. Casel founded Dancing Around Race, an ongoing community engaged-participatory process that interrogates systemic racial inequity in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. www.geraldcasel.com
Where is it happening?
Tannery World Dance & Cultural Center, 1060 River Street, Santa Cruz, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
USD 0.00 to USD 25.00