After Cuba, Ouagadougou before Christmas!
Just after my month of fieldwork in Cuba, I went to Burkina Faso to attend a workshop organised by Prof Dorothea Schulz (University of Cologne) and Dr Nadine Sieveking (University…
The Moving Blog
Haiti: Always a new alchemy. By Ananya Kabir
For I am every dead thing, In whom Love wrought new alchemy. For his art did express A quintessence even from nothingness, From dull privations, and lean emptiness; He ruin’d…
Final Dispatch from the Field: Dr Elina Djebbari between Havana and Ouagadougou
‘Africa habla en mi’ (Africa speaks in me): 8th-13th November 2014 My last week in Havana reflected the usual double-life ‘routine’ of my fieldwork– with research in the archives during…
Dispatches from the field Week 3: Dr Elina Djebbari in Havana
Oshun, ‘la muchacha francesa’, and her ‘Maravillas de Mali!’: 1st – 7th December 2014 As usual, what was planned barely happened and each day brought its share of surprises. This…
Dispatches from the field Week 2: Dr Elina Djebbari in Havana
Improvisation and Orquesta Aragon’s Shadow: November 24 to 30, 2014 This week, Elegua opened the doors. I changed a bit the orientation of my research strategy and I multiplied the…
‘Re:generations’ conference and refill of Vitamin D: by Leyneuf Tines
On November 6th I headed to Bournemouth to for ADAD ‘s (Association for Dance and Diaspora) conference ‘Re:generations: Rethinking the Past to Imagine the Future’. Throughout the three days, a…
Bridging The Gap Between Scholarship And Play
When people ask me how I became interested in the intersection of nightlife, fashion and popular culture I always tell them that the whole time I was a doctoral student…
Dispatches from the field Week 1: Dr Elina Djebbari, Havana
First week in Havana: Rumbero’s shoulders and hurricane season 23rd November 2014 On Monday 17th of November, I landed in Havana after a ten hours flight from Paris. I finally…
The meaning and mystery of nightlife: Ananya Kabir
‘My entire being is a resistance to culture: I am the middle finger to normality’. Modern Moves and our friends discuss the meaning and mystery of partying at the annual meeting of the American Studies Association, Los Angeles, November 2014.
A Voyage Through Katherine Dunham’s Archive
For anyone interested in Katherine Dunham the archive presents a real treat.
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Creole Power: Modern Moves Closing Party
Friday 4th May 2018 Anatomy Lecture Theatre (day) and Great Hall (evening) King’s College London, Strand Campus, WC2R 2LS Five years of Modern Moves draw to a close. Celebrate with…
Moving Group
Moving Group 5: Tango: Black Atlantic and Beyond. Report by Ananya Kabir
Our fifth Moving Group was dedicated to an exploration of tango music and dance, and it involved a double bill. First, we heard Dr Kendra Stepputat, ethnomusicologist from the University…