Dancing Bahia is an edited collection that draws together the work of leading scholars, artists and dance activists from Brazil, Canada and the United States to examine the particular ways in which dance has responded to sociopolitical notions of race and community, resisting stereotypes and redefining African Diaspora and Afro-Brazilian traditions.

About the Author

Lucia M. Suarez is associate professor and director of Latino/a studies in the Department of World Languages and Cultures at Iowa State University.

Amelia 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.

Reviews

'Through Dancing Bahia: Essays on Afro-Brazilian Dance, Education, Memory and Race, Lucia M. Suarez, Amelia 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.'

-- Dance Studies Association, special citation for the 2019 Dance Studies Association de la Torre Bueno (c) Award

'This wide-ranging, empirically grounded volume draws together the work of researchers, dancers, community activists and educators engaged in investigating, teaching and performing Afro-Bahian dance to consider how, in a context of pervasive prejudice and marginalisation, dance works to create and sustain critical spaces of education, memory and political possibility. [...] It will be of interest to dance scholars, scholars of Brazil and others looking to think about race, memory and education from a postcolonial, bodily perspective.'

-- Sofie Narbed, Journal of Latin American Studies



Book Information
ISBN 9781783208807
Author Lucia M. Suarez
Format Paperback
Page Count 234
Imprint Intellect Books
Publisher Intellect Books
Weight(grams) 399g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm * 13mm