Notes
1 André Lepecki, Exhausting Dance: Performance and the Politics of Movement (New York: Routledge, 2006).
2 Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang, “Decolonization is not a metaphor,” Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education, & Society 1, no. 1 (2012): 1–40.
3 Robert Farris Thompson, Flash of the Spirit (New York: Vintage, 1984)
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Rainy Demerson
RAINY DEMERSON is a dance artist and scholar invested in global intersectional feminisms and decolonial embodiments. She has trained extensively in San Francisco and New York City, as well as at L’ecole des Sables in Senegal, Teatro Nacional de Cuba, and Escola de Dança da FUNCEB in Brazil. She has produced concerts in New York and Senegal and her work has been presented in festivals across the United States and in Trinidad, Mexico, and South Africa. She taught at Lindenwood University, El Paso Community College, Crafton Hills College, Scripps College, California Polytechnic University Pomona, and California State University San Marcos before joining The University of the West Indies Cave Hill. She also teaches Dance Writing as guest faculty in the Hollins University MFA in Dance. Her research has been published in several prestigious journals and anthologies.