Faculty
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ANNA BEATRICE SCOTT Anna Beatrice Scott is assistant professor in the Department of Dance at University of California, Riverside, and currently serving as a Provost’s Fellow in Theater, Film and Dance at Cornell University. She specializes in the study, analysis, and performance of dance practices in the African Diaspora, with an emphasis on the performance of Black Power Ideologies as they intersect transnational entertainment industries and local spiritual/philosophical practices. She is completing an e-book investigation of these issues, Completamente Pirado: O Carnaval Depois o Novo Linguagem do Pé (Flipped-out Tongues/Wagging Heads), a multimediated, user-driven experience of the ‘Grand Folly’ in Bahia, Brazil. She is also working up/out a book manuscript of her research travels, Decipherments--Carnaval, Citizenship, & Race in Salvador, Bahia-Brazil. In this work, Dr. Scott excavates the historical relationship between Black political mobilization and festivity, parading and protest, jesting and gesturing, folk practices and praxis, sound and space. Her most recent article, “What's it Worth to Ya? Adaptation and Anachronism: Rennie Harris' PureMovement & Shakespeare,” appears in Discourses in Dance, Spring 2004. Anna’s one-woman show, “Fish Tales, Rivers and Other Female Parts” has been presented at UC San Diego, RISD, and MIT. “Fish Tales” and other collected works can be found, in part, on the World Wide Web at http://www.negressdeterminata.com.
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