Graduate students working across disciplines are invited to join an informal shop talk with Nadine George-Graves on producing scholarship at the intersection of dance, theater, performance studies, African American Studies and American Studies—among other scholarly and artistic interests.
The lunch discussion will be followed by George-Graves’s lecture at the Afro-American Cultural Center at 6 pm that evening, see flyer above.
Dr. Nadine George-Graves is Professor of Theater and Dance at the University of California, San Diego and president of the Congress on Research in Dance (CORD). Her work is situated at the intersections of African American studies, gender studies, performance studies, theatre history, and dance history. She is the author of The Royalty of Negro Vaudeville: The Whitman Sisters and the Negotiation of Race, Gender, and Class in African American Theater, 1900-1940 and Urban Bush Women: Twenty Years of Dance Theater, Community Engagement and Working It Out as well as numerous articles on African American theater and dance. She is the editor of The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Theater. She has also written on primitivity, ragtime dance, tap dance legend Jeni LeGon, identity politics and performance, early African American theater and the future of field. She has given talks, led community engagement projects, and has served on boards and committees in the field.
She is also an adapter and director. Her recent creative projects include Architectura, a dance theater piece about the ways we build our lives, Suzan-Lori Parks’ Fucking A and Topdog/Underdog; and an original adaptation of Anansi stories using college students, professionals, and 4th graders.