The language of dance is often lost on a general audience. Now new research has used sensor suits to discover patterns of movement-based communication in ballet performance.
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A scholar of Black entertainment history reflects on the death of producer Stephen ‘tWitch’ Boss and reflects on the history of Black male entertainers dancing or telling jokes to their deaths.
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COBA, the Collective of Black Artists has been working to introduce Canadian audiences to African and Caribbean dances for 25 years.
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Reader in Linguistics and Multimodality, Loughborough University
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Research Associate, Loughborough University
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Canada Research Chair, Professor in Performance, Toronto Metropolitan University
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Professor, Gender and Sexuality Studies, University of Calgary
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PhD candidate, Department of Education, York University, Canada