Round Table: Conga, Bomba and Cha Cha Cha

Michelle Grant Murray's Invitation to MDC Kendall.

 

 

In celebration of October's Hispanic Heritage, the Dance program at Miami Dade College, under the leadership of Michelle Grant-Murray, invited a group of students and academics to create a round table in order to discuss, honor and recognize the contributions of the culture.  The theme of the evening was One Endless Voice: Dance Identity, Power, Politics and it involved important aspects of Caribbean dance and music such as:

• The derivatives of Cuban Cha-Cha
• Bomba as a form of identity
• Politics of teaching linage of Cha-Cha and Bomba
• Who tells the story
• How is the story told
• What is the perspective

Below are the details of the invitation:

One Endless Voice:Dance Identity, Power, Politics

Tuesday, October 9, 2018

 

7:30pm - 8:45pm

 

Miami Dade College Kendall Campus

McCarthy Theatre/Room 6120

11011 SW 104th Street

Miami, Fl 33176

37th Annual Meeting of the West Indian Literature Conference

                                               Photography Kevin Adonis Browne

Jorge Luis Morejon Shared a panel with Professors Kwynn Johnson and Rachel Moseley-Wood at the 37th Annual Meeting of the West Indian Literature Conference by presenting his paper titled "South Florida Rituals: Unearthing Invisible Traces." Morejon's presentation included the enactment of the areito dance referencing the way  the Taino people of the Caribbean could have probably performed it. Facilitated by Rosie Gordon-Wallace, the presentation started with the re-arrangement of the space, to then ask participants to hold hands and improvise a collective chant, perform a simple step as they rotated together counterclockwise. The dance progressed in crescendo and eventually achieved a climax followed by a release. The presentation took place at the beginning of the session and not at the end as schedule. Ms Gordon-Wallace expressed her satisfation with the opening of the session with a performative presentation and so did Morejon's fellow panelists.

Session 28Multi-Room C

THE EYES HAVE IT: ENVISIONING CARIBBEAN TERRAINS Chair: Rosie Gordon-Wallace, Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator Sheryl C. Gifford, Florida Atlantic University “Alternate or Altered Reality? Jason de Caires Taylor’s Environmental Art and Caribbean Cultural Consumption” Kwynn Johnson, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine “Place as Palimpsest / Yon kote tankou Palimpseste” Rachel Moseley-Wood, University of the West Indies, Mona “A University of the People?: Visual Education in the British West Indies” Jorge Luis Morejon, University of Miami “South Florida’s Rituals:  Unearthing Invisible Traces”