#sexypink/Studies in Mas and Carnival Performance

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Sexypink - Makeda Thomas

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PERFORMING TODAY in Chicago! “Is/Not Mas” is an invitation to engage the serious work of play that is at the center of mas and Carnival performance. Archival audio and video, fractal algorithms, sound, and movement collect to experiment with a possibility of performance rooted in and that invokes aesthetics of mas and Carnival, but is yet something else altogether. Kalinda, kinetics, Traditional mas, and Jouvay are called on to gesture towards what we mean when we say, “Mas!

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Performance Studies at Northwestern University

: Introducing the Graduate Student Spotlight Series, in this series we will be sharing more about the graduate student community that make up Northwestern’s Department of Performance Studies, as well as their work and practice. Ahead of the graduate performances, a key milestone for our graduate students, we will be kicking off the series with our first-year PhD students. Makeda Thomas (she/her) 

Makeda Thomas‘ artistic practice, scholarship and teaching situate at the intersection of dance studies, diaspora theory, and Black feminisms. She is Founding Director of the Trinidad-based Dance & Performance Institute, which has created multiple spaces of intellectual and imaginative inquiry for hundreds of artists, scholars, teachers, and students of the Caribbean and its Diasporas. The Institute spearheads the Artist in Residence Program, New Waves! Institute, and Carnival Performance Institute - programs which have been engaged in Trinidad & Tobago, Haiti, and New York. A 2013 Creative Capital Awardee, her choreography has been presented internationally including at The Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York Live Arts, HARLEM Stage/Aaron Davis Hall, Seattle’s Broadway Performance Hall, Maputo’s Teatro Africa, Port of Spain’s Caribbean Contemporary Arts and Queen’s Hall, The National Gallery of Art and 7 Arts Centre in Zimbabwe, Teatro de la Ciudad in Mexico, and in the context of Carnival. · 

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                        JOUVERT 2022 | Makeda Thomas writing

Mas! Today makes 3 weeks into “Studies in Mas & Carnival Performance” with a brilliant cohort of dance artists, professors, PhD students, and Carnival lovers. Give Thanks to our recent guests - Marvin George @marvinsgeorge of Jouvay Ayiti and University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica and Dr. @Lyndon Gill, @ateba.kamaal Professor, University of Texas @u_texas at Austin and author of “Erotic Islands: Art and Activism in the Queer Caribbean”. This evening’s session enters the Dolls House and I am in my glee. #BelmontBabyDolls. Happy Carnival, Lovers. Let’s Dance! Image: “Madanm La Sirene” by Leah Gordon @leah_gordon_1804.