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AAAS CEC awarded $100,000 Global Arts + Humanities grant with OSU Department of Dance and the Frank W. Hale, Jr. Black Cultural Center

December 21, 2020

AAAS CEC awarded $100,000 Global Arts + Humanities grant with OSU Department of Dance and the Frank W. Hale, Jr. Black Cultural Center

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OSUDance’s Dance Notation Bureau Extension Center for Education and Research; The Office of Diversity and Inclusion’s Frank W. Hale, Jr. Black Cultural Center; and the African American and African Studies Community Extension Center received a $100,000  Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme (GAHDT) Centers Grant for its project: Archiving Black Performance: Memory, Embodiment, and Stages of Being. This project represents a collaborative effort to establish a vision for the transmission of identity and race through the embodiment of dance repertory acquisition of internationally acclaimed black women dance performers during the 2021-23 academic years that will bring together students, faculty, community, and internationally acclaimed dance professionals.

 

The project leadership group is Adélékè Adéèkó, Nadine George-Graves, Crystal Perkins, Valarie Williams, and Lawrence (Larry) Williamson, Jr.