Dancing Bahia

Lucía M. Suárez is associate professor and director of Latino/a studies in the Department of World Languages and Cultures at Iowa State University.Amélia Conrado is a professor at the Federal University of Bahia’s School of Dance.Yvonne Daniel is professor emerita of dance and Afro-American studies at Smith College.

'Through Dancing Bahia: Essays on Afro-Brazilian Dance, Education, Memory and Race, Lucía M. Suárez, Amélia Conrado, and Yvonne Daniel have created a field-establishing volume that examines the interstices of artistic practice and political activism in Afro-Brazilian dance works. Grounding research in the lives of Black people living at the center of the Black Atlantic, this volume locates Salvador da Bahia as a powerful nexus of dance practice and black activism, and wonderfully argues for its significance as one of the world’s epicentres for conversations on race, cultural memory, belonging, and human rights advocacy. With wonderful insights from a range of contributors on dance’s role in race relations, education and emancipation in Brazil, this book importantly contributes new Afro-Bahian knowledge to the field of dance studies.'

• IntroductionPart I: Bahian Dance in ActionChapter 1: Afro-Brazilian Dance as Black ActivismAmélia ConradoChapter 2: Dance Artistry and Bahian Forms of Citizenship: Isaura Oliveira and Malinké Yvonne DanielPart II: Memory, Resistance, and Survival through Dance EducationChapter 3: Pedagogies of the Body within African Matrix Education of Salvador, Brazil: Perspectives and Challenges of an Emancipatory Project Pilar Echeverry ZambranoChapter 4: African Matrix Dance: Repertoire Options for Approaching Race and Ethnic Relations in Brazilian Schools Piedade Lino VideiraChapter 5: After-School Samba: Cultural Memory and Ownership in the Wake of UNESCO Recognition as Intangible Heritage of HumanityDanielle Robinson and Jeff PackmanPart III: Reflections: Paths of Courage and ConnectionsChapter 6: Why Not Me? Reflections on Afro-Dance and Law No. 10.639Nadir Nóbrega OliveiraChapter 7: Dancing into the Politics of Race: From Bahia to KingstonDeborah A. ThomasPart IV: Defying Erasure through DanceChapter 8: Negotiations: Afro-Bahian Memory, Storytelling, and DanceLucía M. Suárez