Participating With Cultural Respect

If Blues isn’t already part of your culture, then dancing it asks you for some awareness and work. We honor that this is a Black American cultural art form, and to engage in it with appreciation (and not appropriation) is essential to participating respectfully.

For help in your own journey of learning, follow the links below for resources from a variety of Black dancers and scholars:

Appreciation vs. Appropriation – Damon Stone

Obsidian Tea Blog – Grey Armstrong

How Do We Go Forward, How Do We Go Back – 2021 Racism in Dance Communities – A talk with Ivy Grey and Grey Armstrong

More resources coming soon!……