About Takiyah Amin

NBN Episodes hosted by Takiyah:

Anthea Kraut, "Choreographing Copyright: Race, Gender, and Intellectual Property Rights in American Dance" (Oxford UP, 2015)

June 23, 2016

Choreographing Copyright

Anthea Kraut
Hosted by Takiyah Amin

Is it possible to lay claim to ownership of a dance? Is choreography intellectual property? How have shifting conceptions of race and gender shaped th…

Bert Ashe, "Twisted: My Dreadlock Chronicles" (Agate Bolden, 2015)

June 23, 2016

Twisted

Bert Ashe
Hosted by Takiyah Amin

What's missing from contemporary discussions of aesthetics and representation within the natural hair movement? Bert Ashe generously offers a response…

Clare Croft, "Dancers as Diplomats: American Choreography in Cultural Exchange" (Oxford UP, 2015)

October 27, 2015

Dancers as Diplomats

Clare Croft
Hosted by Takiyah Amin

What's missing from our understanding of the role of dancers in the context of American Cultural Diplomacy? Clare Croft's first book, Dancers as Diplo…

Bill T. Jones, "Story/Time: The Life of An Idea" (Princeton UP, 2014)

March 17, 2015

Story/Time

Bill T. Jones
Hosted by Takiyah Amin

When does a dance become a book? How does choreography lend itself to the page? What discontents exist in theorizing performance that are best explore…

Wendy Oliver and Lindsay Guarino, eds., "Jazz Dance: A History of the Roots and Branches" (UP of Florida, 2014)

March 10, 2015

Jazz Dance

Wendy Oliver and Lindsay Guarino, eds.
Hosted by Takiyah Amin

Contested and complicated histories create the best books. This is true for many volumes and is certainly so for Jazz Dance: A History of the Roots an…

Rebecca Rossen, "Dancing Jewish: Jewish Identity in American Modern and Postmodern Dance" (Oxford UP, 2014)

September 13, 2014

Dancing Jewish

Rebecca Rossen
Hosted by Takiyah Amin

How does an author craft a work that speaks across the boundaries of dance studies, Jewish studies and gender studies? What does it mean for dance to …

Joshua Legg, "Introduction to Modern Dance Techniques" (Princeton Book Company, 2011)

August 27, 2013

Introduction to Modern Dance Techniques

Joshua Legg
Hosted by Takiyah Amin

I can still remember being an undergraduate student, going from dance class to dance class and working as hard as I could each day. In the midst of al…

Alexis Wilson, "Not So Black and White" (Tree Spirit Publishing, 2012)

June 3, 2013

Not So Black and White

Alexis Wilson
Hosted by Takiyah Amin

When I think of the name "Billy Wilson" certain things come to mind immediately. I think of his sparkling career as director and choreographer of "Bub…

Yael Tamar Lewin, "Night's Dancer: The Life of Janet Collins" (Wesleyan UP, 2011)

January 11, 2013

Night's Dancer

Yael Tamar Lewin
Hosted by Takiyah Amin

What does it mean for a contemporary scholar to be trusted with the unfinished autobiography of a dance legend? How does one ensure that the integrity…

Peggy Schwartz and Murray Schwartz, "The Dance Claimed Me: A Biography of Pearl Primus" (Yale UP, 2012)

November 2, 2012

The Dance Claimed Me

Peggy and Murray Schwartz
Hosted by Takiyah Amin

For some time now I've been in spaces with dancers and dance scholars who lament the amount of available research on some of the black luminaries in o…

Brenda Dixon Gottschild, "Joan Myers Brown and the Audacious Hope of the Black Ballerina: A Biohistory of American Performance" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011)

August 29, 2012

Joan Myers Brown and the Audacious Hope of the Black Ballerina

Brenda DIxon Gottschild
Hosted by Takiyah Amin

For the launch of the Dance Channel, I thought long and hard about what the first author interview would be. I felt that it was critically important t…