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- Title
Memory Walking with Urban Bush Women's "Batty Moves."
- Authors
Aduonum, Ama Oforiwaa
- Abstract
An essay is presented which discusses "Batty Moves," a dance performance choreographed by Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, and how it taught her about the place of Africans in the U.S. "Batty Moves" was performed between 1997 to 2007 at different venues, and the author claims that it bridges the differences between African Americans and Africans. She said it taught her how to relate as a Ghanaian in the country, and that its message to African Americans was to accept who they were and to celebrate their differentness from the Caucasian norms of beauty.
- Subjects
UNITED States; ZOLLAR, Jawole Willa Jo; DANCE; AFRICAN Americans; AFRICANS
- Publication
TDR: The Drama Review (MIT Press), 2011, Vol 55, Issue 1, p52
- ISSN
1054-2043
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.1162/DRAM_a_00048