Selected Presentations & Appearances
Expressive Cultures/Global Flows: Histories and Bodies in Flux
- FHI 2015 Global Brazil Conference
· March 27, 2015
Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium
Duke University
A clinical trial to see if dancing to rhythmic drumming might benefit individuals who experience pain, depression and other ailments. Ceremony and focus group follow-up
- Wurtele Center for Work and Life,
· September 8, 2014
Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium
Smith College,
Traditional African Healing Ceremony in a U.S. Population
· April 19, 2014
Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium
A clinical trial to see if dancing to rhythmic drumming might benefit individuals who experience pain, depression and other ailments. Ceremony and focus group follow-up
Dance: A Visual Integration of Life Experience
- Center for Multicultural Affairs’ Down to Earth Series
· March 26, 2014
Invited Talk
Duke University,
Crossing the Color of the Sky: Choreographing Liminality
- Dancing the African Diaspora: Theories of Black Performance, Collegium for African Diaspora Dance
· February 9, 2014
Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium
Duke University,
Danced Ebós: Choreographing Liminality
- Lucumí Dance: Politics, Spiritual Culture, and Embodiment, Lucumí Music: Singing, Dancing, and Drumming Black Divinity Conference
· November 8, 2013
Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium
Duke University Center for African & African-American Research (CAAAR) - Co-sponsored by the Duke University Dance Program/Latin Studies,
Between Worlds: How Dance Extends Human Consciousness Into the Realm of the Supernatural
- Chautauqua West Series
· October 22, 2013
Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium
Office of Undergraduate Education. Duke University,
Embodied Offerings
- Across the Threshold: Creativity, Being & Healing Conference
· March 1, 2013
Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium
Duke University
African Diasporic Dance in Dance Curricula: Benefits, Challenges and Recommendations
- NDEO, Focus on Dance Education: Collaborations: Many Cultures-Strength through Diversity
· October 27, 2012
Instructional Course, Workshop, or Symposium
Los Angeles, CA
African Diaspora Dance Research Group: Public Roundtable
- Duke University
· April 14, 2012
Invited Talk
The launch of a new national research group focused on African Diaspora dance practices
Adura: Maferefun Obatalá
- CRIATIVIDADE, SER E CURA (Across the Threshold, Creativity, Being & Healing).
· October 3, 2011
Invited Talk
Salvador da Bahía, Brazil,
What Does Your Dance Say About You? Dance as Intangible Cultural Heritage
· February 23, 2010
Lecture
Duke University
Service to the Profession
Co-Convenor
- Afro-Feminist Performance Routes: A Dialogue in Movement
·
2018
Event/Organization Administration
This focused residency was organized in tandem with the third biennial Collegium for African Diaspora Dance Conference, “Dancing Black Joy,” and featured a series of workshops, discussions and performance, to continue the dialogue around feminism (however broadly construed) in African diaspora dance contexts, practice, pedagogy, philosophy.
Organizer
- Mabiba Baegne artist residency
·
October 16, 2017
Event/Organization Administration
Organizer
- Rujeko Dumbutshena artist residency
·
April 10, 2016
Event/Organization Administration
Rujeko Dumbutshena artist residency as part of the Africa in Circum-Atlantic Perspective Feminist Performance Route
Co-Convenor
- Africa in Circum-Atlantic Perspective: Feminist Performance Routes,
·
2016
Event/Organization Administration
Duke’s Africa Initiative,
The project is invested in African and African diaspora women artists whose creative practices enliven and illuminate global movement trajectories and their associated embodied dimensions.
Organizer
- Backstage Series
·
April 10, 2014
Event/Organization Administration
co-sponsored by the Dean's Fund, the Baldwin Scholars, Karen Casey of River Rhythms and Happy Beat Drumming, Cradle of Jazz Project, and the Duke Dance Program,
Duke University
Backstage Series: Malian/Wasulu vocalist, percussionist, and kamele ngoni player Kokanko Sata Doumbia, and Dogon scholar, Assigué Dolo, for a one-day residency in conjunction with Dance and Religion in Asia and Africa.
coordinator
- Across the Threshold: Creativity, Being & Healing 2013 International Conference: Personal/Social/Environmental Transformation
·
December 11, 2013
Event Attendance
Duke University
presenter
- Lucumí Music: Singing, Dancing, and Drumming Black Divinity
·
December 11, 2013
Event Attendance
Duke University Center for African & African-American Research
presenter
- Across the Threshold: Creativity, Being & Healing 2013 International Conference: Personal/Social/Environmental Transformation
·
December 11, 2013
Event Attendance
Duke University
co-convenor
- Across the Threshold: Creativity, Being & Healing 2013 International Conference: Personal/Social/Environmental Transformation
·
December 11, 2013
Event Attendance
Duke University
coordinator
- Across the Threshold: Creativity, Being & Healing 2013 International Conference: Personal/Social/Environmental Transformation
·
December 11, 2013
Event Attendance
Duke University
instructor
- Iemanja Retreat
·
December 11, 2013
Other
Wild Heart Yoga
instructor
- Spoken Word and Slam Poetry in Context
·
December 11, 2013
Other
Ark, East Campus Duke University
coordinator
- Dun-dun Dance with Guinea Artist
·
December 11, 2013
Other
Ark, East Campus Duke University
coordinator
- Lucumí Invitational class
·
December 11, 2013
Other
Ark, East Campus Duke University
Organizer
·
August 4, 2013
Event/Organization Administration
Ark one-day residency with Guinea artists: Aly Camara and Marietou Cisse,
Ark one-day residency with Guinea artists: Aly Camara and Marietou Cisse
Organizer
- Integrating Traditional African Healing Practices into Western Medicine: A Rite to Embody Change
·
April 20, 2013
Event/Organization Administration
Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation award,
Duke University
Residency with Mabiba Baegne, Pline Mounzeo, Ken Wilson, M.D.
presenter
- NDEO Annual Conference 2012
·
October 24, 2012
- October 28, 2012
Event Attendance
Los Angeles, CA
panelist
- African Diaspora Dance Research Group
·
April 14, 2012
Event Attendance
Duke University
instructor
- Mother-Daughter Weekend (Baldwin Scholars Program)
·
March 17, 2012
Other
Duke University
lecturer
- CRIATIVIDADE, SER E CURA (Across the Threshold) 2011
·
October 8, 2011
Event Attendance
Teatro Martim Gonçalves Salvador da Bahía, Brazil
instructor
- CRIATIVIDADE, SER E CURA, 2011 (Across the Threshold) 2011
·
October 5, 2011
Event Attendance
Teatro Vila Velha Salvador da Bahía, Brazil
instructor
- Projeto Didá Banda Feminina
·
October 4, 2011
Other
Didá Escola de Música Salvador da Bahía, Brazil
moderator
- CRIATIVIDADE, SER E CURA (Across the Threshold) 2011
·
October 4, 2011
Event Attendance
Teatro Martim Gonçalves Salvador da Bahía
panelist
- CRIATIVIDADE, SER E CURA, 2011 (Across the Threshold)
·
October 3, 2011
- October 8, 2011
Event Attendance
Salvador da Bahía
Co-Mentor
·
December 17, 2010
Other
Faculty Review Committee
·
December 17, 2010
Other
Co-Coordinator Congolese Master Class
·
November 15, 2010
Other
Ark, Duke University
Co-Coordinator Resurrection Dance Theater of Haiti Master Class
·
September 18, 2010
Other
instructor
- American College Dance Festival Association Mid-Atlantic Conference
·
March 19, 2010
- March 20, 2010
Event Attendance
Virginia Commonwealth University
Co-director : Unity NC African Arts Exchange
·
November 16, 2009
Other
Durham, NC
Exploration Faculty Mentor : Robertson Scholars Program
·
November 16, 2009
Other
instructor
- Adura, a Prescription for Healing
·
March 21, 2009
Other
Duke University Dance Program
Co-Principal Investigator
- Across the Threshold: Creativity, Being & Healing Conference
·
March 19, 2009
- March 22, 2009
Event Attendance
Duke University Dance Program
Panelist : “An Accounting of Africa in North Carolina”
·
February 5, 2009
Other
Hayti Heritage Center
instructor
- Master Classes
·
December 5, 2008
Other
Greensboro Cultural Arts Center
instructor
- Master Classes
·
July 14, 2008
Other
Antilles School, St. Thomas, VI
instructor
- American Cancer Society’s 2008 HBCU Afroflow Tour
·
March 29, 2008
Other
Mariott Convention Center Durham, NC
Signage coordinator : Across the Threshold: Creativity, Being and Healing conference
·
2008
- 2009
Event/Organization Administration
Volunteer Coordinator : Across the Threshold: Creativity, Being and Healing conference
·
2008
- 2009
Event/Organization Administration
Duke University
Logistics Coordinator : Across the Threshold: Creativity, Being and Healing conference
·
2008
- 2009
Event/Organization Administration
Service to Duke
President's Arts Advisory Committee
(University)
·
2019
Committee Service
Faculty Director, Alice M. Baldwin Scholars Program
·
2018
- 2020
Other
Member of Dance Program Curriculum Committee
·
2017
- 2019
Curriculum Innovations
The Curriculum committee began the process of revising the Dance Program major to include four pathways as a way to highlight strengths of our faculty and align with the new MFA in Embodied Praxis.
Committee for Facilities and the Environment
(Department)
·
2017
- 2020
Committee Service
Reviews all projects destined for consideration by the Trustees’ Facilities & Environment Committee. Six faculty and six administrative appointments; co-chaired by one faculty member and one administrative member. Term: 3 years.
Executive Advisory Board, DUS
(University)
·
2016
Committee Service
Member of Search Committe
. Development of MFA in Dance
·
2016
Curriculum Innovations
Participated in general and faculty search for new MFA in Dance Program at Duke
Director of Undergraduate Studies Dance Department
·
July 2014
Other
Dance Program Publicity
(Program)
·
2014
- 2017
Committee Service
Co-Director, Alice M. Baldwin Scholars Program
·
2013
- 2017
Other
Academic & Administrative Activities
University Committee Service in 2019
Faculty Director, Alice M. Baldwin Scholars Program 2018-present
Co-Director, Alice M. Baldwin Scholars Program 2013-2017
Director of Undergraduate Studies/Dance Program 2014-2020