Dancing in Blackness, A Memoir NYC Tour May 17 – 21, 2018

May 17, 2018 Interview on WBAI with host, Wuyi Jacobs of AfroBeat RadioHalifu Osumare and Ntozake Shange in conversation about Osumare’s Dancing in Blackness, A Memoir and Shange’s Wild Beauty: New and Selected Poems

May 17, 2018 Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute Phenomenal Women Series:  Halifu Osumare reading from Dancing in Blackness, A Memoir and Ntozake Shange reading from Wild Beauty, New and Selected Poems, and Osumare and Shange in Conversation!!

May 17, 2018 Halifu Osumare at The JODY Center for Dance Research at Arnhold Graduate Dance Education Program Hunter College Dance Program.  Funding was made available for the program for the purchase twenty-five copies of Dancing in Blackness, A Memoir for each student in the graduate dance education program to have their own personal copy!! Halifu Osumare signed each copy!

May 18, 2018 at Gavin Brown Enterprise, Harlem location,  I introduced Ruthlyn Salomons in conversation with Halifu Osumare about Dancing in Blackness, A Memoir

May 21, 2018 at Greenlight Bookstore – Prospect Lefferts Gardens.  Halifu Osumare with Jawole Zollar in conversation about their mutual journey as professional dance artist and social activist and points at which their lives intersected.  Awesome close to the NYC tour Dancing in Blackness, A Memoir!

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Artist| Scientist| Creative Entrepreneur| Activist: working at intersections of arts, health, healing, and activism, my practice focuses on the performance and performative articulations of vulnerable bodies, exploring and examining expressions of identity and belonging. I hold particular interest in the lives and aspirations of the African Diaspora/Black Atlantic in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

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