Host Cara Hagan and Dr. DaMaris B. Hill, author of Breath Better Spent: Living Black Girlhood, explore what it means to 'hoist one's younger self upon ones shoulders and move in the world as a black woman.

Resources:
Learn more about DaMaris B. Hill, PhD https://damarishill.com
Learn more about Cara Hagan http://carahagan.net

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How People Move People: Back and Forth host Cara Hagan and mother-daughter team, Tiffany Christian and Rayna Christian talk about the role of art, creativity, self-expression in being and raising black girls.

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How People Move People: Back and Forth host Cara Hagan is joined by Dr. Julie Johnson, the Chair of Dance and Performance at Spelman College, and two of her undergraduate students, Asili Johnson and Anaya Hicks.

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In this episode of Back and Forth, host, Cara Hagan sits down with Michele Byrd-McPhee to talk about her career, her inspirations, and speaking to her childhood self. Byrd-McPhee is a self-described street dance activist and founder and artistic director of the New-York based Ladies of Hip Hop, an organization that centers women’s voices and histories in Hip-Hop culture.

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In this episode of Back and Forth, host, Cara Hagan sits down with Deidre Lang, one of the original Fly Girls from the 90's TV show, In Living Color. Conversation ranges from Lang's work on Broadway in shows like Ragtime, and The Lion King to roles in touring companies and in the Rock of Ages at the Venetian, in Vegas, to being an artist while raising two daughters.

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In this episode of Back and Forth, host, Cara Hagan shares two conversations. One with Dr. Lisa Covington, a sociology and digital humanities scholar whose research explores media representations of Black youth. And the second, with two young girls, Inez, who is eight and Mari, who is ten, to chat about their thoughts and experiences with on the pop culture and media.

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In this episode of Trace Elements, we spend time with Jack Ferver in conversation with host, Jose Solís. Ferver shares stories of how the HIV/AIDS epidemic has influenced their work as both a performer, creator, researcher, and professor. Topics range from the impact of HIV/AIDS on NEA funding, the transference of arts knowledge, and on queer artists broadly.

Film referenced in the episode - "Nowhere Apparent" commissioned as part of ALL ARTS annual dance film festival, “Past, Present, Future” and available to watch on demand at AllArts.org/PastPresentFuture.

Information on the Culture Wars:

https://blogs.brown.edu/hiaa-1810-s01-fall-2017/files/2017/08/Katz.pdf

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-01-08-op-17769-story.html

https://www.philipyenawine.com/art-social-issues/2020/9/4/art-matters-how-the-culture-wars-changed-america

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In this episode of Trace Elements, we spend time with Phil Chan (founder of Final Bow For Yellow Face) and Graham Lustig (Artistic Director, Oakland Ballet), each in conversation with host, Jose Solís about ballet choreographer Choo San Goh (Goh Choo San), who died of AIDS in 1987. Choo San was a rising star, having created ballets for some of the world's leading companies. He is but one example of the art and creativity taken from the world by this epidemic.

Final Bow For YellowFace

Gold Standard Arts Foundation

Oakland Ballet

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goh_Choo_San

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