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Archiving Black Performance: Bushasche Etude (1948)

Event flier
October 11, 2021
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
African American and African Studies Community Extension Center, 905 Mt Vernon Ave, Columbus OH 43203

Bushasche Etude (1948)
choreographed by Dr. Pearl Primus
with traditional drumming

Join us for a Free and Open Community Performance and Conversation of the dance Bushasche Etude with Ursula Payne, Professor of Dance, Slippery Rock University and Director of the Frederick Douglass Institute and The Ohio State University Dancers.

Based on a traditional dance from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Bushasche Etude is based on Primus' reimaging Bushasche, War Dance, A Dance for Peace in which the participants call up the gods of war and defeat them.