Chew on This
A Series of Artist, Academic, and Choreographic Presentations by World Arts & Cultures Graduate Students and Faculty presents:

Moving Scripts: Retracing the Presence of Ginga within Afro-Brazilian Performative Practices 
Academic Presentation by Cristina Rosa 

Tuesday, June 1st, 12-1pm       
UCLA Kaufman Hall, Room 160                   

For the final Chew on This, Cristina Rosa will present an overview of her Ph.D. dissertation, entitled “Moving scripts: the presence of ginga within choreographies of identification in Brazil.” Briefly, in her dissertation, Rosa conducts a comparative study of the embodied concept ginga, a particular kind of bodily syncopation associated with Afro-Brazilian heritage. There, she maps and analyzes ginga’s presence in three specific and distinct movement practices: samba, capoeira, and concert dance – i.e. Grupo Corpo. In each case, Rosa also provides a genealogy of ginga’s development in that form. Rosa argues that the aesthetic and philosophical knowledges enacted in these body-centered practices have recuperated-cum-invented an epistemology beyond colonial languages, whose scope exceeds or differs from Eurocentric thought. 

Cristina Rosa, artist and researcher, is a PhD candidate at World Arts and Cultures department, UCLA. She received a CSW/Grad Division Irving and Jean Stone Dissertation Year Fellowship for AY 2009-2010. Born and raised in Brasilia, Brazil, Rosa received a MA from University of Wisconsin-Madison and a BFA from CSU, Chico. Rosa’s academic interest is concerned with the African presence within movement practices (e.g. dance, martial-arts, and sports) in the Americas and their geo-political significance within contexts of coloniality of power. As an artist, her work includes drawings, prints, photography, and performance.   

 
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Chew on This is supported by WAC GSO and the UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures