On February 26, 2024, 11:40 – 12:55, the Department of Dance at Barnard College will host Black Popular Culture Scholar, Dance Educator, Choreographer Professor Emerita Halifu Osumare on tour with her sequel memoir Dancing The AfroFuture: Hula, Hip-Hop, and The Dunham Legacy.

Dancing The AfroFuture is already noted as “An important and rare addition to the future of Black dance history. It will become a vital resource for researchers into dance history, the history of dance studies, and beyond” Tara Willis, curator in performance and public practice, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago).

The Department of Dance invites BCRW to join us in hosting Osumare and Dancing The AfroFuture: Hula, Hip-Hop, and The Dunham Legacy.

As a review, Osumare’s first memoir, Dancing in Blackness, A Memoir won several awards including the 2019 Selma Jeanne Cohen Prize in Dance Aesthetics from the American Society of Aesthetics & the American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation. Osumare is also the winner of the Dance Studies Association 2020 Distinction in Dance Award for lifetime achievement in performance, scholarship and service to dance.

Host: Wuyi JAcobs

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