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About Takiyah Amin
NBN Episodes hosted by Takiyah:
June 23, 2016
Choreographing Copyright
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…
June 23, 2016
Twisted
What's missing from contemporary discussions of aesthetics and representation within the natural hair movement? Bert Ashe generously offers a response…
October 27, 2015
Dancers as Diplomats
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…
March 17, 2015
Story/Time
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…
March 10, 2015
Jazz Dance
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…
September 13, 2014
Dancing Jewish
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 …
August 27, 2013
Introduction to Modern Dance Techniques
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…
June 3, 2013
Not So Black and White
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…
January 11, 2013
Night's Dancer
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…
November 2, 2012
The Dance Claimed Me
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…
August 29, 2012
Joan Myers Brown and the Audacious Hope of the Black Ballerina
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…