2020 at Duke University, Durham, NC, US.

Afro-Feminist Performance Routes is a focused residency that continues urgent embodied dialogues around African diaspora dance practices and gender, femininity, womanhood, femme, and feminisms.

Artists include Lénablou (Guadeloupe); Sephora Germain (Haiti); Luciane Ramos Silva (Brazil); Haliu Osumare (US); Rujeko Dumbutshena (Zimbabwe/US); Yanique Hume (Barbados/Jamaica); and Jade Power Sotomayor (Puerto Rico/US).

The residency is convened by: Dasha A. Chapman, Davidson College Mario LaMothe, University of Illinois at Chicago Thomas F. DeFrantz, Duke University Andrea Woods Valdes and Duke University Ava LaVonne Vinesett.

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Visionary Aponte: Art & Black Freedom is a nine-week art exhibit and accompanying series of conversations, screenings, performances, residencies, and workshops at Duke University organized by the Power Plant Gallery and the Forum for Scholars and Publics.

Based on a digital humanities project called Digital Aponte, the exhibit is curated by Édouard Duval-Carrié and Ada Ferrer and funded in part by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at NYU, the King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center at NYU, the Haitian Cultural Arts Alliance, and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

Choreographer and scholar Yanique Hume leads Calabasa Calabasa: Dancing and Making the Music of Life dancers as well as bystanders in an opening processional for the Visionary Aponte exhibit at the Power Plant Gallery at Duke University on September 19, 2018. View more