Spelman Dance Theater - Home/Body: a for the unseen by Uwazi Zamani https://padlet.com/uwazizamani/ii0mt988rpxuda24 Home/Bodies- both a social home and corporeal home en-us 2022-11-20 10:57:20 UTC 2025-05-06 06:09:20 UTC hello@padlet.com Self-Containment (Reflecting on my scream in Lex Brown) uwazizamani https://padlet.com/uwazizamani/ii0mt988rpxuda24/wish/1632688576 The body is where it all started. It is the container where the human soul is housed and our first source.of knowledge. I am also was interested by the idea that the body is a physical dwelling place that holds memory. It  made me think of Alvin Ailey's work "Blood Memories" ]]> 2021-07-01 02:36:53 UTC https://padlet.com/uwazizamani/ii0mt988rpxuda24/wish/1632688576 uwazizamani https://padlet.com/uwazizamani/ii0mt988rpxuda24/wish/1652898085 Redaction 
Transness--> Flesh--> Flesh as the site of somethingelseness ]]> 2021-07-16 18:04:10 UTC https://padlet.com/uwazizamani/ii0mt988rpxuda24/wish/1652898085 Out of the shadows uwazizamani https://padlet.com/uwazizamani/ii0mt988rpxuda24/wish/2024517082 2022-02-02 01:07:30 UTC https://padlet.com/uwazizamani/ii0mt988rpxuda24/wish/2024517082 Home/Bodies: uwazizamani https://padlet.com/uwazizamani/ii0mt988rpxuda24/wish/2398885096 Ideas and themes:  

Home: both a social home and corporeal home 

Sections 
Drink On Me- Ensemble 
We Were Never Here 
Skyline Solo loop 

On loneliness and longing - I need somebody to Love ( distorted ) and possibly reversed and looped 

Phrase generation prompts:
Something that keeps going 
Interiority- Open the door improv
Fugitives- small and 'undetectable' 
Concealment- we don't see your face 
Cannot be contained- Last Dance 


]]> 2022-11-27 05:48:44 UTC https://padlet.com/uwazizamani/ii0mt988rpxuda24/wish/2398885096 Latisha King case uwazizamani https://padlet.com/uwazizamani/ii0mt988rpxuda24/wish/2401343138 To wear an article of clothing can thus be seen as a sexually aggressive act, justifying the violence against those who express their gender.

She also explores the way in which attitudes about Latisha were manifest how her walk was perceived and described.

]]> 2022-11-29 04:50:00 UTC https://padlet.com/uwazizamani/ii0mt988rpxuda24/wish/2401343138 On Gesture uwazizamani https://padlet.com/uwazizamani/ii0mt988rpxuda24/wish/2401364508 Frequent reference is made to Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s theories of gesture and movement, which provide a framework for understanding how Latisha’s individual body was understood in the context of a wider student body.

According to Merleau-Ponty, there is no hard separation between bodily conduct and intelligent conduct; rather, there is a unity of behavior that expresses the intentionality and hence the meaning of this conduct. In habits, the body adapts to the intended meaning, thus giving itself a form of embodied consciousness.]]> 2022-11-29 05:12:19 UTC https://padlet.com/uwazizamani/ii0mt988rpxuda24/wish/2401364508 Chanting- Please Memorize! uwazizamani https://padlet.com/uwazizamani/ii0mt988rpxuda24/wish/2407828598 2022-12-04 06:03:06 UTC https://padlet.com/uwazizamani/ii0mt988rpxuda24/wish/2407828598 uwazizamani https://padlet.com/uwazizamani/ii0mt988rpxuda24/wish/2408384969 Things That Stood Out: 

The separation between public and private 

When private bleeds through into the public 

When the unknown becomes known

Black Beat Made Visible discusses the idea that there is a private black dance known only within the black community and there is black dance that has been shown to the public. It also discusses how black movement is used without understanding. 

“two thoughts, two souls, two unreconciled strivings...” - W.E.B. Du Bois 

“...Talking by dancing over talking about dancing.”

“ a society in which bodies can be objectified and marked as ‘black’ is comfortable with watching without understanding..”


]]> 2022-12-05 00:45:01 UTC https://padlet.com/uwazizamani/ii0mt988rpxuda24/wish/2408384969 Gesture as politic of the youth uwazizamani https://padlet.com/uwazizamani/ii0mt988rpxuda24/wish/2408405272 Corporeal orature aligns movement with speech to describe the ability of black social dance to incite action. In this articulation, social dance may contain performative gestures that cite contexts beyond the dance.


These citations are read and acknowledged by other dancers who respond in kind with actions or decisions about, at least, the efficacy of the dance gesture.
]]> 2022-12-05 01:08:11 UTC https://padlet.com/uwazizamani/ii0mt988rpxuda24/wish/2408405272 uwazizamani https://padlet.com/uwazizamani/ii0mt988rpxuda24/wish/2408667482 2022-12-05 06:02:27 UTC https://padlet.com/uwazizamani/ii0mt988rpxuda24/wish/2408667482 Music uwazizamani https://padlet.com/uwazizamani/ii0mt988rpxuda24/wish/2414903998 Looped audio 
Rally (vogue)  
Live Sound score 
Quindon Tarver 
Two banks of Four 

]]> 2022-12-08 21:50:07 UTC https://padlet.com/uwazizamani/ii0mt988rpxuda24/wish/2414903998 Attempts uwazizamani https://padlet.com/uwazizamani/ii0mt988rpxuda24/wish/2415039071 Claudia Rankine states, I am deeply curious about “the ways in which race informs the imagination.”  How might I use the stage, and dance, to unpack the histories and to re-present the struggles, not only the pain but ]]> 2022-12-09 01:20:08 UTC https://padlet.com/uwazizamani/ii0mt988rpxuda24/wish/2415039071 Notes on Ballroom and Vogue Developments uwazizamani https://padlet.com/uwazizamani/ii0mt988rpxuda24/wish/2415040323 2022-12-09 01:21:26 UTC https://padlet.com/uwazizamani/ii0mt988rpxuda24/wish/2415040323 “IT WAS A PERIOD WHERE THE NEGRO WAS IN VOGUE” - Langston Hughes uwazizamani https://padlet.com/uwazizamani/ii0mt988rpxuda24/wish/2417078245 This sentence by Hughes captures what was at once transcendent and dispiriting about the era. The Harlem Renaissance was a moment when blackness was celebrated; but to be in vogue is to be in fashion, and fashions always die. As an era concerned with the vitalization as well as with the demise of African American identity, the Harlem Renaissance was an era best characterized by its contradictions: every point of celebration was also a source of contention. ]]> 2022-12-11 23:17:00 UTC https://padlet.com/uwazizamani/ii0mt988rpxuda24/wish/2417078245 I Am Black quotes- Thomas DeFrantz uwazizamani https://padlet.com/uwazizamani/ii0mt988rpxuda24/wish/2422619137 If we can accept that the dance responds to the drum, not solely in a reactive manner, but within

the configuration of communicative collaboration, we can understand how dance is performative,

mirroring the way in which speech may be equated with action. Dance movements convey speechlike qualities...meaning beyond the formal...(66).”

“...talking by dancing over talking about
 dancing” (66).

“Dance that is designed to please or rouse an audience is different from the dance of protest or personal expression. But because dancing black bodies in America are inevitably taken to be performing dances of celebration by cultural outsiders...” (72).
]]> 2022-12-16 04:08:46 UTC https://padlet.com/uwazizamani/ii0mt988rpxuda24/wish/2422619137 Home/Bodies: a hymn for the unseen uwazizamani https://padlet.com/uwazizamani/ii0mt988rpxuda24/wish/2480299614 Sections

I. Drink On Me 
II. We were never here... 
- we dance again 
III. Still life... 
IV. Rally 
V. and still we dance again

]]> 2023-02-13 21:39:20 UTC https://padlet.com/uwazizamani/ii0mt988rpxuda24/wish/2480299614 The Disco Ball uwazizamani https://padlet.com/uwazizamani/ii0mt988rpxuda24/wish/2481839106 Kevin Aviance recalls dancing in the club and looking up in a disco ball and seeing all of his friends. Due to the HIV/AIDS epidemic, many people disappeared from the disco ball. ]]> 2023-02-14 13:22:22 UTC https://padlet.com/uwazizamani/ii0mt988rpxuda24/wish/2481839106 "at a certain time, bodies would just fall to the floor uwazizamani https://padlet.com/uwazizamani/ii0mt988rpxuda24/wish/2481840752 2023-02-14 13:23:15 UTC https://padlet.com/uwazizamani/ii0mt988rpxuda24/wish/2481840752 Courtney's solo is about how the club becomes a place to grief and mourn uwazizamani https://padlet.com/uwazizamani/ii0mt988rpxuda24/wish/2481842639 2023-02-14 13:24:12 UTC https://padlet.com/uwazizamani/ii0mt988rpxuda24/wish/2481842639 uwazizamani https://padlet.com/uwazizamani/ii0mt988rpxuda24/wish/2481856541 2023-02-14 13:31:12 UTC https://padlet.com/uwazizamani/ii0mt988rpxuda24/wish/2481856541 uwazizamani https://padlet.com/uwazizamani/ii0mt988rpxuda24/wish/2481925114 2023-02-14 14:03:40 UTC https://padlet.com/uwazizamani/ii0mt988rpxuda24/wish/2481925114 uwazizamani https://padlet.com/uwazizamani/ii0mt988rpxuda24/wish/2481926480 2023-02-14 14:04:20 UTC https://padlet.com/uwazizamani/ii0mt988rpxuda24/wish/2481926480 I can tell by the way you look at me, you tighten up and never smile. Like aggression can only be symbolized by me. uwazizamani https://padlet.com/uwazizamani/ii0mt988rpxuda24/wish/2484054991 2023-02-15 20:00:24 UTC https://padlet.com/uwazizamani/ii0mt988rpxuda24/wish/2484054991 "Do you care for me?" "Do you love me?" uwazizamani https://padlet.com/uwazizamani/ii0mt988rpxuda24/wish/2484055955 2023-02-15 20:01:15 UTC https://padlet.com/uwazizamani/ii0mt988rpxuda24/wish/2484055955 uwazizamani https://padlet.com/uwazizamani/ii0mt988rpxuda24/wish/2484057289 2023-02-15 20:02:38 UTC https://padlet.com/uwazizamani/ii0mt988rpxuda24/wish/2484057289 Club section uwazizamani https://padlet.com/uwazizamani/ii0mt988rpxuda24/wish/2484104944 Don't stay in one spot! Clubs don't function like that. Think of constantly shifting, these shifts don't have to be large. 

Put yourself in club or party. You will have an audience, the energy of the club has to authenticated through your gestures and bodily understanding of where you are 

Fall to floor in different ways, falling to the floor is not an acting moment. You are passing out due ]]> 2023-02-15 20:51:41 UTC https://padlet.com/uwazizamani/ii0mt988rpxuda24/wish/2484104944