Dancing in Blackness, A Memoir
WACD | 2 p.m., Kaufman Hall
Halifu Osumare has been involved with dance and black popular culture internationally for over forty years as a dancer, choreographer, teacher, administrator and scholar. She holds a M.A. in Dance Ethnology and a Ph.D. in American Studies. Dr. Osumare is Professor Emerita of African American & African Studies at University of California, Davis, and is the author of The Africanist Aesthetic in Global Hip-Hop: Power Moves (2007) and The Hiplife in Ghana: West African Indigenization of Hip-Hop (2012). Her memoir, Dancing in Blackness, published by the University Press of Florida, was published in February 2018.
As a dancer she is a former soloist with the Rod Rodgers Dance Company of New York City, and the Founding Artistic Director of CitiCentre Dance Theatre in Oakland, CA., formerly a key organization in what is now the Malonga Casquelourd Center for the Arts in Oakland. She is a Certified Instructor in Katherine Dunham Technique, and the former Co-Director of the Institute for Dunham Technique Certi cation (IDTC). Her vision of social justice, like her late mentor Katherine Dunham, is the integration of the arts and the humanities.
More detailed information is available on the World Arts and Cultures/Dance website.
Event Date: Tuesday, Apr. 24, 2 p.m.
Venue: Kaufman Hall, Room 200
Price: Free
Kaufman Hall is located in North Campus off of Sunset Boulevard.
Parking is available in lot 4.
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