Professor Presents African Diaspora Dance Research

Assistant Professor of Dance Tamara Williams has presented her research on the spiritual dances of the African Diaspora in two international conferences this fall. In October, she taught an Afro-Brazilian dance workshop and performed a solo work, “Of the Past,” at the Rex Nettleford Arts Conference at Edna Manley College in Kingston, Jamaica. The theme of the fourth biennial conference, held October 11-13, was “Arts and Culture for the 21st Century: Millennial Dis-Engagement Engagement – Re-Engagement.”

Williams is also presenting at the ninth biennial Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora (ASWAD) conference, held this month in Seville, Spain. For the conference, entitled “African/Diasporic Futures: Re-Envisioning Power, Interventions, Imaginations and Belonging,” she is presenting the paper, “Dance, A Catalyst for Transcendence.”