"A Diasporic Practice Goes Back to Africa"

  As an anthropologist and dancer, I am interested in the possibilities that embodied practices open up for empathetic ways of being together, constructing and transmitting knowledge, and creating alternative futures. My research and scholarship move through the African Diaspora, from Brazil to Angola, exploring the ways bodies in movement together can create spaces of radical openness and transformative belonging.  My first book, Capoeira Connections: a Memoir in Mo