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what makes that black?
exploring the african-american aesthetic
with luana  

Friday, October 26 7-8:30pm
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What makes something Black?  Or Eastern? Or or Post-modern, for that matter? Aesthetics are much more than a cultural prescript of beauty. They are a consciousness, a psychology, that energetically interact with our minds and spirits.  

Fifteen years ago the uninomial  Luana set out to write a book on African-American dance.  It wasn't long before she realized the topic was much larger, that the threads that defined dance as African-American were the same that ran through the culture's literature, painting and music. Her research, soon to be published in the book "What Makes That Black," de-mystifies the African American aesthetic, and  is one of the pioneering cores of the American Aesthetic.

As charismatic as she is incisive, Luana will share with us exactly what makes something Black through an interactive exploration of symbol, word, song and dance.   We will dive into  jazz,  blues, swing, and rock-n-roll, re-discovering each as harbingers of personal narrative, defining attitude, cultural device and embodied history of Black America. 

Luana holds a MA in Dance from Mills College in Oakland, California and is a professor at City College of San Francisco teaching Dance History, African-American Aesthetics, Choreography, Modern and Jazz technique, and a lecturer at Dominican University - LINES Ballet BFA program. In addition to her teaching career, Luana successfully performed in the U.S. and in Europe. Currently she is researching the role of the African-American aesthetic as it has informed the American aesthetic and will publish her findings in a book titled, What Makes That Black? Luana is an avid gardener, neophyte bocce player, and a long-standing student of theoretical quantum mechanics.

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what makes that black? w/Luana

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    • INSPIRATION poems >
      • THE HOUSE OF BELONGING
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      • THE PEACE OF WILD THINGS
      • Thank you
      • Bennacht
      • Gitanjali
      • Impermanence
      • Silently a Flower Blooms
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