One of the aspects I enjoy most about being an educator is sharing knowledge, especially to empower folks to discover more about the world and themselves. Parallel to that is how to center blackness, destabilize the rigidity of the academy through humanity while attending to the multiplicity of rigor. More voices. More perspectives. Criticality for the sake of growth, listening, equity and inclusivity. 2020 has been a challenge. An unexpected outcome has been guests traveling through time and space sharing their work with my students. We have had @julie.b.johnson speak about her work on women + incarceration in our Dunham course. We also had @mr.sargeant85 offer a master class on Trinidadian movement. And just today, @almaraz_swift gave a master class featuring social dance in Contemporary III. Though teaching dance via Zoom has not been ideal, it has opened up pathways for a different level of engagement with community. #ProfBrown #Year4 #SacState #Dunham #SocialDance #contemporary #dance #academia *The students gave permission to be posted. (at Theatre & Dance, Sacramento State) https://www.instagram.com/p/CIPaB0drxEe/?igshid=675vmdle2m0a
