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Thursday, August 20, 2020

Zane Booker & “Dare” Ayorinde

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Zane Booker reminisces on past experiences in Booker’s specific dance timeline as Oluwadamilare Ayorinde explores his relationship to sensation and individuality in creative expression through movement. They work through issues of tokenization in modern dance companies and practices in relation to black bodies in white spaces.

“And that’s what I think I got from sitting in the doorway. I learned how to perform and interpret movement before I understood technique.”

Zane Booker

“She’s [Saidiya Hartman, author of Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments] questioning the way like black women are recorded, remembered, the reasons why and the retelling of their stories. Like there has to be a bit of a creative edge because you just can’t trust the sources.”

“This is it. I forget that dance has the power to be a shameless vehicle of expression. Your body can just express as it is with everything it is. I forget that it has this power. I remembered and I was like, ‘I never want to forget again’ that I can access this thing that’s beyond me, above me that I get to interact with.”

Oluwadamilare Ayorinde

Zane Booker

Dancer, Artistic Director

Zane Booker, a native Philadelphian, began his dance training at the age of seven with the Philadelphia School of Dance Arts under the direction of Joan Myers Brown. By age fourteen he was selected by Ms. Brown to perform with the Philadelphia Dance Company. Other educational institutions he attended include, Howard University, School of...

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Oluwadamilare Ayorinde

Freelance Performing Artist

Oluwadamilare (Dare) Ayorinde is Nigerian - Black freelance performing artist living in New Jersey. Since Rutgers University he has worked with Colleen Thomas, Bill Young, Netta Yerushalmy, Stefanie Batten Bland, Susan Marshall, Kayla Farrish, Douglas Dunn, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, The Trisha Brown Dance Company, Kyle Marshall and...

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