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MA Blog - Week 5 - “AOTW - Break it Down for the National Anthem”

Hello guys. Kayla speaking. This week’s Article of the Week is titled “Transnationalizing the Rhythm/Remastering the National Dance: The Politics of Black Performance in Contemporary Cinema of the Americas. Deonne N. Minto analyzes the multiple Black dance and performance movements across multiple different nations and how each of them helped the Black community retain some sort of power despite their oppressive situations. Many nations developed their own dance movements, which includes Dancehall in Jamaica, Samba in Brazil, and eventually, Afro-caribbean in Canada. Many of these movements would not have been possible without internationalization of these dance genres. These dance movements did eventually make their way into the modern space of Black Contemporary dance films, such as Dancehall Queen and Love Come Down (Francis, 2013). Dance is used as a form of resistance and expression with or without film. However, it is within film where dance becomes a device to help our main character move from violence and oppression to spaces of power. In film, dance is used to make note of the main problems of a nation through the main character and express potential hopes and solutions. 

This article is relevant to my paper due to Minto’s analysis of Black political movements through dance. Portraying messages through movement can be seen as a metaphorical way of conveying the Black experience, which aligns the aspects of Afrosurrealism. Both artistic movements may require the audience to give some contextual understanding of what the artist is trying to tell, which may require real world experience. This is part of the reason why I wanted to focus my paper on the relationship between afrosurrealism, dance, and videography. 

This week, I did some training and had meetings with two out of three of my committee members. For my training, I did the “Learning Screenwriting” and “Camera Movement” courses on LinkedIn. During my meeting with my committees, we talked about the basis of my project, both creatively and academically. I also had a meeting with another professor that could have been a part of my committee, but they recommended someone else to me. For today, I am expected to give 5 aspects I noticed about Afrosurrealism and stay in contact with my potential final committee member. 

Sources:

Minto, D. N. (2013). Transnationalizing the Rhythm/Remastering the National Dance: The Politics of Black Performance in Contemporary Cinema of the Americas. In Transnationalism, Activism, Art (pp. 192–208). essay, University of Toronto Press. Retrieved 2024, from https://www-jstor-org.libproxy.temple.edu/stable/10.3138/j.ctt5hjxtn.14?seq=4.