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Dancing in Blackness, A Memoir NYC Tour May 17 – 21, 2018
May 17, 2018 Interview on WBAI with host, Wuyi Jacobs of AfroBeat Radio. Halifu Osumare and Ntozake Shange in conversation about Osumare’s Dancing in Blackness, A Memoir and Shange’s Wild Beauty: New and Selected Poems
Photo: © Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute
Photo: © Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute
Photo: © Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute
Photo: © Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute
Photo: © Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute
Photo: © Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute
Photo: © Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute
Photo: © Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute
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!
Dancing in Blackness, A Memoir with Jawole Zollar
Halifu Osumare’s Dancing in Blackness, A Memoir NYC Book tour came to a close on May 21, 2018 at Greenlight Books. Halifu Osumare was in conversation with Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, Founder and Chief Visionary of Urban Bush Women.
Osumare and Zollar engaged in lively critical discussion about the role of dance in resistance and the transformation in social justice work.
Dancing In Blackness, A Memoir – May 17th
Halifu Osumare speaks with graduate students and dance educators at The JODY -the Arnhold Graduate Dance Education Program at Hunter College of the City of New York.
Join the Tour – Dancing in Blackness, A Memoir
In early March, I took on the task of organizing the NYC tour and launch of Professor Halifu Osumare’s newest book, Dancing in Blackness, A Memoir. It is now two week to the opening event on May 17th, 2018 from 3:00 – 5:00 at the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter , where Halifu Osumare will be join by her lifelong friend Ntozake Shange.
The authors will read from their newest publications, Shange released Wild Beauty: New and Selected Poem in late 2017, and enter into conversation about the intersections of their lives and careers, highlighting ways in which dance nurture and fortify them as artist, activists, and educators. Come join Osumare and Shange on this first stop of Dancing in Blackness, A Memoir book tour! Reservations are highly recommended. Click HERE to make your reservation.
But if you cannot make it…
Join Osumare on May 18, 2018 at 6:30 at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, Harlem location – 439 west 127 Street. Osumare will read from Dancing in Blackness, A Memoir surrounded by Arthur Jaffe”s exhibit AIR ABOVE MOUNTAINS, UNKNOWN PLEASURES –
in which Jaffe “expansively extends his exploration of ontological Blacknuss* as a generative and pluripontantial phenomenon—one capable of addressing the social stresses weight, fissures and breaks of being Black—and concomitantly, Black Being and Thingification—in the world” Greg Tate, 2017.
Osumare’s Dancing in Blackness, A Memoir reading will engage visual arts and dance as co-collaborators in the making and deployment of blackness as an audacious response to experiences of living-while-black in contemporary western spaces. Make your reservation at RSVP@GavinBrown.Biz, or call 212/627-5258
But, if you cannot make it to this event …
Join Osumare on May 21, 2018 in Brooklyn at Greenlight Bookstore, 632 Flatbush AveBrooklyn, NY 11225 location. Co-hosted by Urban Bush Women, Osumare will read from Dancing in Blackness, A Memoir and enter into conversation with Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, 
Founding Artistic Director and Chief Visioning Officer of Urban Bush Women. Osumare and Zollar’s conversaton will highlight dance as a tool for community building and social justice. Reserve your seat through the following Facebook Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/2476394135919639/
Reward yourself... Make it to one of more stops on Dancing in Blackness, A Memoir NYC Book Tour!! You will get sustainable fuel for living a dance inspired life, and tools to build the better world many persons of goodwill truly seek.
