This week I am at a dance conference (CORD). It is my first
big conference in USA and I have given myself the task of sharing the
experience with you!! I am posting duel posts on my MAPP and BAPP blogs. I wanted
to share the experience because it is a bit foreign to me and I thought if I share
my experience then when you go to give a paper (or maybe you have) or give your
oral presentation, you will have the friendly voice of my experience in your
head along with all the newness. Shared
experiences across a community of practice as a benefit to the whole group. I
sort of did this when I went to the conference in Berlin in 2010 see past BAPP
posts
Going to talk about BAPP and hear what other people are doing
Conference continues (first day)
Conference second day
I am in a room in the very big hotel. The conference is
being held in the hotel also. It seems to be quite far out of the centre of
town but then USA towns are often not walking-to places anyway (so maybe I am
in the centre of a town with big spaces between the buildings). I arrived last
night and went for a walk along a highway to a Mexican café that was like the
New Mexican equivalent of a caf. in East London but with Mexican Food and no
English speakers!
Today I am going to work on my presentation (‘The Jingle
Dress- claiming a philosophical legacy as a cultural act.’), which I give on Friday.
Registration for the conference is at 1:30 so I have sometime to deal with the
jet lag too! I have looked on line at the draft schedule and I know a couple of
people from guest teaching I have done and I also know one person - Dr. Welsh-Asante from the Re:Generations Conference last week at the Place, London. I am really
excited to say hello to her here and hear her presentation (‘Gender-bending in
traditional African Dance: The case of the Ganksete and Manjanata Dances’)
More later
Adesola
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