Reflections on the Decolonising Dance Praxis of Grupo Bayano (original) (raw)

Abstract: The chapter explores the work of a Seattle-based community-based cultural performing group, Grupo Bayano, who for more than 40 years has employed the music and dances of U.S. Caribbean communities to work with teachers of young children, young people, and community members. The group enacts communal dance as a decolonizing praxis grounded in the cultural histories, values, sensibilities, and lived experiences of subaltern communities, in an effort to challenge domestication and create learning conditions that counter experiences of racism, sexism, and other forms of inequalities in the lives of bicultural students and their communities. The analysis draws on scholarship that examines a critical pedagogical reading of the body and dance as a liberatory educational practice. Key words: decolonizing, dance pedagogy, bicultural development, community-based practice, early childhood education

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