Thomas F. DeFrantz: ‘Not Just Dance’
DURHAM, NC - Dancing is not just a fun way to spend Saturday night. It's also a rigorous academic discipline. Thomas F. DeFrantz, a Duke University professor of African and African American studies and dance, is an expert on how African American dances have evolved to reshape our world,…
Hearing Trayvon Die
by Mark Anthony Neal | NewBlackMan There is dramatic moment in the film Cadillac Records, when musician Muddy Waters, portrayed by Jeffrey Wright, has just watched the body of fellow musician Little Walter (Columbus Short) taken away to the morgue. Little Walter was more than Waters’ wingman—he was critical to…
Left of Black S2:E21| The Race-ing and Un-Race-ing of Tiger Woods and Contemporary Black Poetry with Orin Starn, Thabiti Lewis and Darrell Stover
Left of Black S2:E21 | February 27, 2012 The Race-ing and Un-Race-ing of Tiger Woods and Contemporary Black Poetry Host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined in-studio by Duke University Professor Orin Starn and via Skype© by Professor Thabiti Lewis (Washington State, Vancouver). Authors of The…
"Performance and Social Justice" presented by: Choreographer Ananya Chatterjea
1:15pm-2:30pm; Duke Dance Laboratory, 1516 Hull Avenue, rear, Durham; free and open to the public SLIPPAGE: Performance|Culture|Technology, in residence at Duke University, and the Duke Dance program announce a guest lecture by Dr. Ananya Chatterjea, a dancer, choreographer, scholar and educator who envisions her dance work as a "call…
Redefining Black Power and Re-Thinking Black Male Achievement on the February 20th 'Left of Black'
Host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined via Skype© by journalist Joanne Griffith, editor of the new book Redefining Black Power: Reflections on the State of Black America (City Lights). Griffith discusses the observations of several of the book’s contributors including historian Vincent Harding, Professor Michele…
Left of Black S2:E19 | A History of Haiti and the Legacy of Violence in Jamaica with Laurent Dubois and Deborah Thomas
Left of Black S2:E19 | February 13, 2012 A History of Haiti and the Legacy of Violence in Jamaica with Laurent Dubois and Deborah Thomas Host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is joined in-studio byLaurent Dubois, the Marcello Lotti Professor of Romance Studies and History at Duke…
Lula WASHINGTON, choreographer of hit film AVATAR (2009) to speak at DUKE February 22, 2012
1:15pm-2:30pm; Duke Dance Laboratory, 1516 Hull Avenue, rear, Durham; free and open to the public SLIPPAGE: Performance|Culture|Technology, in residence at Duke University, and the Duke Dance program announce a guest lecture by Lula Washington, Founder and Artistic Director of the Lula Washington Dance Theatre and choreographer of the smash…
