12pm GMT +1 start

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12:00-12:15pm

Opening talk 

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12:15-1:15pm

Alfdaniels Mabingo 

The portrait of a Black postcolonial dance thinker: Conscientization, decolonial dilemmas, and nostalgic

"Dance educators and creatives of color are grappling with the overwhelming responsibility to spearhead decolonisation as institutions embark on the frenzy to decolonize and establish anti-racist programs. Oftentimes, these educators and creatives of color are wrestling with complex identities that challenge, complicate, and destabilize their ability to lead decolonisation projects in institutions with deeply entrenched racism and Anlo-saxon intellectual hegemony. In this presentation, I will question and disassemble my complicated portrait as a postcolonial African dance thinker by situating my reflections within the intellectual contributions of four Black postcolonial thinkers: Steve Bantu Biko, Frantz Fanon, Walter Rodney, and Ali A. Mazrui."

 

Break 

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1:25-2:25pm

Muhd Noramin Mohd Farid

Reclaiming Her Place: Malay Taxi Dancing Girls as Bearers of Tradition

"A research work in progress. I wish to position the historical Malay taxi-dancing girl to the fore. To reclaim her rightful place as the source of tradition which she was denied due to the vilification of her profession. She was regarded as a prostitute and a woman of lower class due to her direct engagement with men who were not of her kin at urban dance halls. I show through my engagement with archival materials, ephemera and oral history recordings, I use feminist methodologies to help bring “her” voice into the fore."

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Break

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3:35-4:35pm

Ruben Pachas

Teaching Peruvian Indigenous Dance to Non-Indigenous People for conserving Indigenous Cultural Values

"This presentation is focused on communicating how through indigenous dance methodologies so that Non-Indigenous people can value nature, life, and the best of the human being. The artistic development of the methodologies will run on Indigenous techniques, and it expresses how it originated and how it is now evolved."

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