Dr. Jeff Friedman, Professor of Dance Studies at Rutgers University, will lecture on the Africanist dance aesthetic and African Arts Complex in the Southern U.S. during the 17th-19th centuries.
Dr. Jeff Friedman, Professor of Dance Studies at Rutgers University, will lecture on the Africanist dance aesthetic and African Arts Complex, as they frame the amazing retention of dances developed by African diasporic enslaved people in the Southern U.S. during the 17th-19th centuries. Sample videos of dance practices and interactive movement interludes will accompany the lecture.
Open to teens and adults. Registration is suggested but nor required.
Dr. Friedman received his PhD in Dance History and Theory from the University of California Critical Dance Studies PhD program in Riverside CA. A dance artist and Fulbright scholar, Friedman is the recipient of numerous grant and awards for his research. He has been affiliated with Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University since 2003, where he researches embodied oral traditions and oral histories of dance, with a current interest in dance and disability.
Photo: African American Juba Dancer Artist William Henry Lane. Courtesy of Free to Dance (Producer/Director Madison Davis Lacy, Digital Dance Media Library)
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