Black Performance Theory

BPT 2013

Black Gold/The Black Body in Performance

BPT 2013 met at the University of Texas at Austin 12-14, April. The event was co-sponsored with The Warfield Center for African and African American Studies, the Performance as Public Practice Graduate Program in the Department of Theatre and Dance, The Center for Women’s and Gender Studies, and the Lozano Long Institute for Latin American Studies. Omi Osun Joni L. Jones hosted the event, and convened with Thomas F. DeFrantz. Nicole Martin provided expert logistical arrangements.

Working In Groups

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Participants

Stephanie Batiste
Rashida K. Braggs
Jennifer DeVere Brody
Jayna Brown
Charles Carson
N. Fadeke Castor
Grisha Coleman
Yolanda Covington-Ward
Thomas F. DeFrantz
David Donkor
Nadine George Graves
Anita Gonzalez
E. Patrick Johnson
Daniel Alexander Jones
Jeffrey Q. McCune ,Jr.
Marcus McQuirter
Uri McMillan
Raquel Monroe
Monica White Ndounou.
Omi Osun Olomo/Joni L. Jones
Matt Richardson
Tamara Roberts
Lisa Thompson
Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley
Harvey Young
Hershini Bhana Young

Witnesses

Doral Callier
Charlotte Canning
Mbewe Escobar
Kristin Jackson
Agotha Livera
Nicole Martin
Doton Mbara
Kristin Smith
Belisa Torres
Kaitlin Wood

BPT 2013

Black Gold/The Black Body in Performance

Working In Groups

The Black body as commodity

The relationship between Black people and labor

The joy of Blackness

Black women’s bodies as sites of psychic and economic exploitation

The enslavement of Africans and the diaspora such enslavement created

Black participation in international war campaigns

The role of Black nations in the oil industry

Blackness as improvised reality that challenges Afro-pessimism.

Participants

Witnesses

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