Photo credit: Pan American Health Organization
This week I was honored to perform at the inauguration ceremony for the Pan-American Health Organization’s new director, Dr. Jarbas Barbosa! EducArte was invited to give a short frevo presentation to give tribute to Dr. Barbosa’s home state of Pernambuco. It was an honor to share frevo dance and music with this audience. Along with […]
I had a great time dancing last month at the Maryland Irish Festival in Timonium, MD, with my friends Rebecca McGowan, Catherine Marafino Brice, and Kaitlyn Likas, accompanied by all-star musicians Peter Brice, Joey Abarta, and Matt Mulqueen. We showcased a variety of Irish dance styles to showcase the diversity with the form—including festival style, […]
MSAC Folklife Apprenticeship Grant. Wide Angle Youth Media.
I’m thrilled with the release of this mini documentary about my work teaching Irish step dance to fellow percussive dancer Becky Hill through the Maryland State Art Council‘s Folklife Apprenticeship Grant in 2021-22. We focused our work on the Molyneaux Blackbird, a version of the Blackbird set dance by dance master Jeremiah Molyneaux of North […]
Photo credit: Pablo Regis de Oliveira
We had a great time at our céilí last week, held for the first time at magical Glen Echo Park! Thanks to everyone who came out. We had dancing with live accompaniment by some of the region’s best Irish musicians and the energy was amazing. We did classic favorites: the Siege of Ennis, Walls of […]
I spent the last ten days in Portugal! I participated in the 46th ICTM World Conference, hosted by INET, the Institute for Ethnomusicology of the New University of Lisbon. I presented my paper, “Dancing the Video Archive: Tracing Irish Dance Style and Repertoire in Archival Database Practices,” as part of the Practices of Dance Archiving […]
On June 29th, EducArte brought Brazil’s largest carnival band, Monobloco, to perform at the historic Spanish Ballroom at Glen Echo Park. It was a huge effort by our team, and we pulled it off! At the concert, we saw people from all age groups come together to have a great time with friends and family. […]
I am happy to share that my essay, “Irish Dance on Repeat: Archiving the Dance and Dancing the Archive,” was just published. The essay was commissioned by Our Steps, Our Story: An Irish Dance Legacy Archive, created and produced by Jean Butler in partnership with the Jerome Robbins Dance Division of the New York Public […]
Salem, Montserrat. March 2015.
Photo by Pablo Regis de Oliveira.
On March 16, 2022, I was a featured guest on The Chris Scott Show on 105FM Down Community Radio in Downpatrick, Northern Ireland. We chatted about the link between the Irish and the island of Montserrat, as well as my background in dance and dance research. It was a fun time, have a listen!
I’m excited to announce that Pablo Regis and I have received folklife apprenticeship grants from Maryland Traditions, the traditional arts program of the Maryland State Arts Council. The funding supports the sharing of traditional arts skills from a master artist to a learner artist during a one-year teaching period. I will be working with percussive […]
Cavalo marinho with Fabinho Soares. Photo credit: Paço do Frevo.
I’m excited to share that my chapter “Dances of Resistance and Social Inclusion in Brazil: Frevo and Popular Dances of Pernambuco” has been published in the Springer Handbook for Social Inclusion. From the abstract: The term “dances of resistance” refers to dances around the world that are involved in strategic processes of liberation, activism, or […]