[Peace] Fwd: AFRST ANNOUNCEMENTS

[Alfred Kagan]

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>"Conversations in Black on Brown" is a two-part program taking place
>over the course of the 2003-2004 academic year with many events open
>to the public.  It is an exciting artist residency program with
>established and emerging black dance makers and performers coming to
>the community, teaching master classes, participating in discussions
>about their lives in art, and engaging in public forums to discuss
>the impact the Brown decision has had upon their lives as creative
>artists. (see artist bios below)
>
>These events are offered by the Dance Department at U of I
>as part of its "Conversations in Black on Brown" series sponsored by
>the Brown v. Board of Education Commemoration Committee.
>
>Upcoming "Conversations in Black on Brown" events include:
>
>A FREE African Dance master class given by Amaniyea
>Payne  Director of Muntu Dance Company of Chicago with Master
>Drummer Babu Atiba and additional local drummers
>
>Time/Place: Frederick Douglass Recreation Center on Saturday November 1st,
>from 12 noon to 2pm. The Douglass Center is located at 512 East Grove Street
>Champaign.
>
>A Reception for Resident Artists Amaniyea Payne, Babu Atiba,
>and Dianne McIntyre
>
>Time/Place: 5:00 - 6:30pm at the African American
>  Cultural Program. The AACP is located at 708 S. Mathews, Urbana. Come and
>  meet the artists.
>
>A Talk Back with Ms. Payne, Babu Atiba, Ms. McIntyre, and Professors 
>Kathy Perkins and Nichole Rustin
>
>Time/Place: The Levis Faculty Center, 919 West
>Illinois St., Urbana on Monday November 3rd, 7-9:00p.
>
>
>A FREE Master Contemporary Dance class given by dancer/
>choreographer Dianne McIntyre
>
>Time/Place: The Don Moyer's Boys and Girl's Club, 201 East Park St. Champaign.
>Thursday, November 6th from 6:30 - 8::30p.  If you love to move, come out
>and dance!
>
>
>  Dianne McIntyre will be performing two works in the November 
>Playhouse Dance Concert
>
>Time/Place: November 13th, 14th,and 15th at 7:30 pm in the Colwell 
>Playhouse Theatre
>at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. Tickets for Adults 
>are $15, Seniors
>$14, U of I students $9.00 and Youth $9.00.
>For Tickets and information call 333.6280.
>
>
>
>Information on the Artists, Panelists:
>
>Amaniyea Payne is a premier African dance practitioner and educator
>of many styles of West African dance and performance.  A Ruth Page
>Award winning artist, her company is known for "its authentic and
>progressive interpretations of contemporary and ancient African and
>African American dance, music, and folklore."
>
>Dianne McIntyre is legendary in the modern dance world both for the
>vast body of her own works that she created in collaboration with
>noted jazz musicians, and the roster of key figures in the dance
>world who she has taught.  McIntyre has created choreography for the
>stage and screen, one of her many notable screen works can be seen
>in Oprah Winfrey's film adaptation of Toni Morrison's "Beloved."
>
>Kathy A. Perkins has designed lighting throughout the United States
>for dance, drama and music. Kathy has worked with the
>choreographers/companies of Pearl Primus, Eleo Pamero, Otis Salid,
>Zulu Dance Company, and Lula Washington's Los Angeles Contemporary
>Dance Company. She has designed for regional, European, and South
>African theatre companies and is the editor of four anthologies
>focusing on African/African Diaspora women.  Kathy chairs the
>lighting program in the theatre department.
>
>Nichole T. Rustin's research interests include African American
>cultural history and gender studies.  She earned her Ph.D. in
>American Studies from NYU where she wrote a dissertation about the
>bassist and composer Charles Mingus, Jr.  She is currently working
>on a book manuscript, tentatively titled "BeyondCategory: Jazz,
>Race, Masculine Difference, and the Emotions in 1950s America."
>Rustin is also co-editing a volume on gender and jazz.


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Al Kagan
African Studies Bibliographer and Professor of Library Administration
Africana Unit, Room 328
University of Illinois Library
1408 W. Gregory Drive
Urbana, IL 61801, USA

tel. 217-333-6519
fax. 217-333-2214
e-mail. akagan at uiuc.edu
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