
Episode 2 of The CAMRA Archives: Black Women in Motion features Dr. Christina Knight, Assistant Professor of Visual Studies at Haverford College and the co-founder of knightworks dance theater. We discuss embodiment and spirituality, the decolonial potential of diasporic movement practices, and Black imagination in the context of the speculative works she develops with her sister, Jessi Knight.
You can learn more about knightworks at http://www.knightworksdancetheater.org/about.html
Produced & Edited by Azsaneé Truss (@AzsaneeT)
Music: Ketsa - Smooth Day (available at freemusicarhive.org)
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Oct 4, 2021
27 min

Episode 1 of The CAMRA Archives: Black Women in Motion revisits a talk from CAMRA’s Screening Scholarship Media Festival titled “How the Body Knows.” The conversation discussed the importance of embodied knowledge, and how movement practices inform the scholarship and leadership of each of the panelists. During the session, panelists also drew from their experiences as Black women researchers, movement practitioners, and leaders, to respond to inquiries into what embodied methodologies and practices look like and feel like to them in and beyond the organizations they lead.
The panelists featured in this conversation are:
- Dr. Jasmine Johnson, faculty in the Africana Studies Department
- Dr. Deborah Thomas, R. Jean Brownlee Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Experimental Ethnography
- Dr. Jasmine Blanks-Jones, Recent graduate of the Education, Culture and Society and Africana Studies programs
- Ore Badaki, Ph.D candidate in the Literacy, Culture, and International Education program
Produced & Edited by Azsaneé Truss (@AzsaneeT)
Music: Ketsa - Smooth Day (available at freemusicarhive.org)
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Jul 9, 2021
31 min

Produced & Edited by Azsaneé Truss
Music: Ketsa - Smooth Day (available at freemusicarhive.org)
Apr 27, 2021
2 min
