Black Dance: A Collage of Embodied Language Systems

Published in Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies, Vol. 21, No. 3

 

This essay examines Black dance as an embodied language system through which cultural memory, historical experience, and social meaning are transmitted and reimagined across the African Diaspora. Bridging performance studies, visual culture, anthropology, and embodied theory, the work considers how movement operates as both archive and epistemology — carrying forms of knowledge that exceed the limits of text and institutional record.

 

“The body carries histories that exceed the limits of text.”

 

Read the full essay in Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies:
https://liminalities.net/21-3/black-dance.pdf