Octavia's Brood: Riding the Ox Home


Autoria(s): Bowden Abadoo, Meghan Kamiche
Contribuinte(s)

Phillips, Miriam

Digital Repository at the University of Maryland

University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)

Dance

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22/06/2016

22/06/2016

2016

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Octavia’s Brood: Riding the Ox Home was an evening-length dance concert performed October 15 and 16, 2015, at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center in partial fulfillment of the Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Maryland’s School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies. Inspired by the prophetic envisioning of Harriet Tubman and Octavia Butler, it explores race, otherness, ownership and story-telling from the perspective of Black women’s dancing bodies and histories. Borrowing its title from Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements, it utilizes visionary story-telling, where science fiction provides a foundation for imagining socially just worlds inhabited by richly diverse protagonists. This paper is a written account of the research by which I composed this immersive dance event, leaping back and forth through time, landing between antebellum Maryland of the mid-1800s and an unknown place at an unknown date of a foreseen future.

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doi:10.13016/M2VF5S

http://hdl.handle.net/1903/18432

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en

Palavras-Chave #Dance #African American studies #Women's studies #African American Studies #Choreography #Dance #Harriet Tubman #Octavia Butler #Women's Studies
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