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Colleen Ndeme Fitzgerald

Saturday 19th July
11:55 - 12:40
GMT +1

The Dancing Body as a Space of Resistance . Let's Spell R-E-S-I-S-T-A-N-C-E together!

Colleen Ndeme Fitzgerald

Biography / Biografía

Colleen Ndemeh is a multidisciplinary performance artist, activist and cultural worker of Kpelle (Liberian) and Irish-American descent doing artistic and political work internationally on topics of feminism, anticolonialism, and Blackness. She received her BA in Dance and Anthropology from Bates College, a post-graduate diploma in "Territory-Based Artistic Practices" from the University of the Arts Argentina, and a Masters in Performance from HZT in Berlin, Germany. As an independent artist she performed and taught workshops across the Americas, West Africa and Europe. She previously lived in Buenos Aires, Argentina where she co-founded Kukily, a transnational afrofeminist arts collective.

Abstract / Resumen

In a performative talk we explore the dancing body as a site of resistance. The word 'resistance' is our starting point with each letter representing an embodied concept:
R – Ritual
E – Embodiment
S – Sensuality
I – Improvisation
S – Survival
T – Transcendence
A – Ancestry
N – Nurture
C – Care
E – Entanglement
Through an embodied alphabet, we aim to co-create knowledge that resists violent systems of fragmentation, blending academic reflection, poetry, gesture, memory, and dance to explore how resistance breathes in the moving body. We invite the audience to expand conversations around decoloniality, care, and embodied knowledge, reclaiming dance as a radical, relational, and reparative act.

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