Contents:
(editor Adesola Akinleye)
Forewords by Thomas F. DeFrantz and Peter Badejo
Preface: Dancing through this book – Adesola Akinleye
1. Narratives in Black British dance: an introduction – Adesola Akinleye
Part i
2. “I don’t do Black-Dance, I am a Black dancer” – Namron
3. Dance Britannia: the impact of global shifts on dance in Britain – Christy Adair and Ramsay Burt
4. Negotiating African Diasporic identity in dance: brown bodies creating and existing in the British dance industry – Tia-Monique Uzor
5. Tracing the evolution of Black representation in ballet and the impact on Black British dancers today – Sandie Bourne
6. In-the-between-ness: decolonising and re-inhabiting our dancing – Adesola Akinleye and Helen Kindred
Part ii
7. Trails of Ado: Kokuma’s cultural self-defence – Thea Barnes
8. Moving Tu Balance: an African holistic dance as a vehicle for personal development from a Black British perspective – Sandra Golding
9. ‘Why I am not a fan of the Lion King’: ethically informed approach to the teaching and learning of South African dance forms in Higher Education in the United Kingdom – Sarahleigh Castelyn
10. Performativity of body paintingL symbolic ritual as diasporic identity – Chikukwango Cuxima-Zwa
11. Dancehall: a continuity of spiritual, corporeal practice in Jamaican dance – H. Patten
12. Our Ethiopian connection: embodied Ethiopian culture as a tool in urban-contemporary choreography – Ras Mikey (Michael) Courtney
13. Reflections: snapshots of dancing home, 1985, 2010 and 2012 – Hopal Romans
Part iii
14. Battling under Britannia’s shadow: UK jazz dancing in the 1970s and 1980s – Jane Carr
15. Caribfunk Technique: a new feminist/womanist futuristic technology in Black dance studies in Higher Education – A’Keitha Carey
16. More similarities than differences: searching for new pathways – Beverley Glean and Rosie Lehan
17. Epistemology of the weekend: Youth Dance Theatre – Hopal Romans, Adesola Akinleye, and Michael Joseph
18. Transatlantic voyages: then and now – Anita Gonzalez