Learning Latin American Dances: “La Sanmarqueña” from Mexico

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Event Date: 
March 11, 2021 - 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Venue: 
Online event: FB Live CLACSATILLINOIS
Description: 

Krannert Center is pleased to join forces with the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) for a free, three-part learning series featuring instructors Dill Costa, Maria Cardoso, and Lorena Alarcon. These virtual programs, which will be live-streamed on Facebook Feb 11-Apr 8, 2021, and archived on the CLACS Media Space Channel for later viewing, will offer three lessons of dance styles featuring fundamentals, footwork, and partner work.

Feb 11: Dance from Brazil—“Afro-Brazilian Samba” (additionally co-sponsored by the Lemann Center for Brazilian Studies)
Mar 11: Dance from Mexico—“La Sanmarqueña”
Apr 8: Dance from Argentina—“Chacarera”

Each session in this series will last approximately 60 minutes.

If you require any accommodations for this event, please contact us two weeks in advance at kcpa-eventsoffice@illinois.edu.

Dance
Free
World/Global

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Admission Free
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Krannert Center Youth Series | Contra-Tiempo: Radical Joy

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Event Date: 
February 8, 2021 (All day) - February 28, 2021 (All day)
Venue: 
Krannert Center for the Performing Arts
Address: 
Viewing link available at KCPA's online calendar
Description: 

CONTRA-TIEMPO is a bold, multilingual, Los Angeles-based dance company that creates electrifying, politically astute performance work that moves audiences to imagine what is possible. The company engages diverse audiences, cultivates dancer leaders, and centers stories not traditionally heard on the concert stage. Led by Artistic Director Ana Maria Alvarez, the company members are professional dancers, artists, immigrants, educators, activists, organizers, and movers of all types, living and working across Los Angeles and the country.

In this video performance, CONTRA-TIEMPO shares an excerpt of the evening-length collaborative work, joyUS justUS, a piece that lifts up joy as the ultimate expression of resistance. This video will be available through Feb 28, 2021.

Program:
0:00 Welcome and introduction by Ana Maria Alvarez
2:39 Agua Bata
6:45 get down
11:18 Brown
14:20 Clave Call and Response
18:57 Miranda Rights of Happiness
21:36 Clave

Presented by Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts #ConcertsForKids series.

Recommended for grades 3 and up.

This event will last approximately 25 minutes.
Krannert Center Youth Series (KCYS)
Family Fun
Free
Dance

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Learning Latin American Dances: Afro-Brazilian Samba

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Event Date: 
February 11, 2021 - 6:00pm - 7:00pm
Venue: 
Online event: FB Live CLACSATILLINOIS
Description: 

Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) presents:

Instructor: Dill Costa, Brazilian dancer, musician, choreographer and a teacher for several of Rio De Janeiro’s Samba, Afro Brazilian and Brazilian folk dance companies. Dill currently teaches and produces in Old Town Folk Music School, Gingarte Capoeira Group and Grupo Axé Capoeira Chicago.

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Dancing the African Diaspora: Cynthia Oliver & Thomas DeFrantz

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Event Date: 
December 10, 2020 - 4:00pm
Venue: 
Online event - Spurlock Museum
Description: 

The Spurlock Museum’s Contemporary Conversations series instigates conversations around contemporary cultural issues, themes, and ideas. In connection with our temporary exhibit, "Blues Dancing and Its African American Roots," we have convened a conversation with the professional dancers, choreographers, and educators, Dr. Thomas F. DeFrantz and Dr. Cynthia Oliver.

This Zoom event will also be available using FB Live.

Bios about the participants:
Cynthia Oliver is a prolific and award-winning dancemaker from St. Croix, Virgin Islands. Her work joins textures from the Caribbean, Africa, and the United States. Oliver has toured the globe as a featured dancer, with the contemporary companies David Gordon Pick Up Co., Ronald K. Brown/EVIDENCE, Bebe Miller Company, and Tere O'Connor Dance. She has appeared as an actor in works by Laurie Carlos, Greg Tate, Ione, Ntozake Shange, and Deke Weaver. She earned her doctorate in Performance Studies from New York University, is widely published, and has won numerous awards, including a New York Dance and Performance (BESSIE) Award, for her choreography. At the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, she is a professor in the dance department, affiliate in African American and Gender & Women’s Studies, University Scholar, and recent Center for Advanced Study inductee. She currently serves as Associate Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation in the Humanities, Arts, and Related Fields. Her most recent evening-length performance work, “Virago-Man Dem,” premiered at Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival in New York, toured the country, and closed here at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts in the fall of 2018.

Thomas F. DeFrantz is Professor in the Department of African and African American Studies and the Program in Dance. DeFrantz is also core graduate faculty in Computational Media, Arts, and Culture at Duke University. DeFrantz’s expertise is in Black expressive cultures and their impacts on everyday life.DeFrantz studied music composition and computer science as an undergraduate. Currently, DeFrantz directs SLIPPAGE: Performance|Culture|Technology, a research group that explores emerging technology in live performance. The group deploys bespoke live-processing systems in performance, crafting interfaces that translate movements into light and sound to underscore the creative concerns at hand. DeFrantz taught for the Mobile MFA in Dance at the University of Arts, Lion’s Jaw Festival, Movement Research MELT, ImPulsTanz, and the New Waves Institute. DeFrantz also held faculty positions at Hampshire College, Stanford University, Yale University, MIT, NYU, and the University of Nice. In 2017, DeFrantz received the Outstanding Research in Dance award from the Dance Studies Association. DeFrantz is a consultant for the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, contributing concept and voice-over for the permanent installation on Black Social Dance, which opened with the museum in 2016. In 2013, working with Takiyah Nur Amin, DeFrantz founded the Collegium for African Diaspora Dance (CADD), a growing consortium of 300 researchers committed to exploring, promoting, and engaging African diaspora dance as a resource and method of aesthetic identity.

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Amasong - Songs of the Winter Season

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Event Date: 
December 12, 2020 - 7:00pm
Venue: 
Virtual, online concert
Description: 

Included in this semester’s concert are songs of warmth and love through the winter sung in many languages: Hebrew, Spanish, Japanese, English, Georgian.

Admission: 
Admission is free, donations accepted.
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“BTS and ARMY: A Case Study of Transcultural Fan Activism and Accountability”

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Event Date: 
December 10, 2020 - 3:00pm - 4:30pm
Venue: 
Online event - Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies
Description: 

Global Korea/CEAPS Speaker - Candace Epps-Robertson

The global success and recognition of BTS, a seven-member South Korean music group, demonstrates that their artistry and message has captured the attention of millions. In addition to providing music and entertainment, BTS inspires their global fandom, ARMY, to engage in a myriad of actions connected to social issues. The combination of how BTS expresses this call to social action, and how the fan community receives and responds to this call, provides a rich case study of fan-based activism. While BTS and their fandom are pushing against and connecting across borders that often seem impermeable, this work does not happen with ease. In this presentation, Dr. Epps-Robertson will discuss the complexities of transcultural fan activism that involves both public-facing projects and teaching within the ARMY community about social issues.

Dr. Candace Epps-Robertson is an assistant professor of English and Director of the Writing in the Disciplines Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she holds the Jonathan M. Hess Term Professorship. Her primary research investigates the ways in which communities teach, practice, and understand what it means to be a citizen at both local and global levels. Her first book, Resisting Brown: Race, Rhetoric, and Citizenship in the Heart of Virginia (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018) examined a literacy program designed to promote citizenship skills created during the American civil rights movement. Currently, she is working on several projects connected to BTS and their fandom ARMY that examine the complexity of transcultural social justice efforts, community and accountability, and global citizenship education.

This event is part of our 2020 Global Korea series on the globalization and impact of South Korean popular culture.

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Global Korea - An Evening with Tiger JK

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Event Date: 
November 17, 2020 - 8:00pm - 9:00pm
Venue: 
online discussion
Description: 

Tiger JK; Rapper, record producer, and entrepreneur

In the age of social distancing, music continues to prove its vital role in connecting people, cultures, and histories. We invite you to join us in an exciting conversation with Tiger JK. In 1999, Drunken Tiger—a duo consisting of Tiger JK and DJ Shine—debuted in South Korea with their album, Year of the Tiger. In 2005, DJ Shine left the group and Tiger JK would continue alone as Drunken Tiger until 2018. Creating ten full-length albums under the name Drunken Tiger, Tiger JK has led a trailblazing career as one of the most influential and important figures in Korean popular music. Often credited as the “Godfather of Korean hip hop,” he continues to expand and transcend artistic horizons not only with his solo work but also as a member of MFBTY (a trio with Yoon Mirae and Bizzy). In an engaging discussion moderated by Professor Myoung-Sun Song (East Asian Languages and Cultures), Tiger JK will share his experiences and thoughts on various themes including the travel of hip hop from America to Korea, hip hop as a global culture and art form, the transnational power of Korean popular culture, and many more.

Tiger JK (Birth name: Seo Jung-Kwon) is a South Korean-American rapper, record producer, and entrepreneur best known as a founding member of the Korean hip hop group Drunken Tiger. He has also founded two record labels, Jungle Entertainment and Feel Ghood Music. He is currently a member of hip hop trio MFBTY. He is considered a highly influential figure in the development of Korean hip-hop and is credited with helping bring the genre into the Korean mainstream. The Los Angeles Times referred to him in 2011 as "perhaps the most popular Korean rapper in America, Asia, and the world."

Admission: 
Webinar Registration Available at CEAPS Event Page
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“BTS and ARMY: A Case Study of Transcultural Fan Activism and Accountability”

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Event Date: 
November 5, 2020 - 3:00pm - 4:30pm
Venue: 
online seminar
Description: 

CEAPS Speaker: Candace Epps-Robertson (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

“BTS and ARMY: A Case Study of Transcultural Fan Activism and Accountability”

The global success and recognition of BTS, a seven-member South Korean music group, demonstrates that their artistry and message has captured the attention of millions. In addition to providing music and entertainment, BTS inspires their global fandom, ARMY, to engage in a myriad of actions connected to social issues. The combination of how BTS expresses this call to social action, and how the fan community receives and responds to this call, provides a rich case study of fan based activism. While BTS and their fandom are pushing against and connecting across borders that often seem impermeable, this work does not happen with ease. In this presentation, Dr. Epps-Robertson will discuss the complexities of transcultural fan activism that involves both public-facing projects and teaching within the ARMY community about social issues.

Dr. Candace Epps-Robertson is an assistant professor of English and Director of the Writing in the Disciplines Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she holds the Jonathan M. Hess Term Professorship. Her primary research investigates the ways in which communities teach, practice, and understand what it means to be a citizen at both local and global levels. Her first book, Resisting Brown: Race, Rhetoric, and Citizenship in the Heart of Virginia (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018) examined a literacy program designed to promote citizenship skills created during the American civil rights movement. Currently, she is working on several projects connected to BTS and their fandom ARMY that examine the complexity of transcultural social justice efforts, community and accountability, and global citizenship education.

Admission: 
Webinar Registration Available at CEAPS Event Page
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Word is Seed: A Celebration of International Voices through Poetry and Languages

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Event Date: 
October 29, 2020 - 7:00pm
Venue: 
online event
Description: 

Center for African Studies and Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies presents:

Word is Seed: A Celebration of International Voices through Poetry and Languages

Dissident Rhythms - Poetry Against Injustice

https://afrst.illinois.edu/future-events

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CWM at C-U Folk and Roots Festival 2020

Robert E. Brown Center for World Music programming returns with a video premiere at the C-U Folk and Roots Festival, scheduled for Friday, October 23, 2020 at 7pm. (subject to change)

The program highlights unique instruments of the world presented by four international artists based in Urbana-Champaign. Denis Chiaramonte, Jean-René Balekita, I Ketut Gede Asnawa, and Joy Yang introduce themselves and instruments they play, which are then featured in a final work realized by Jason Finkelman, program coordinator for the center.

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