The Modern Moves team en route to Haiti
The Modern Moves team members are en route to Haiti to attend the Caribbean Studies Association Conference held in Port-au-Prince from 5th to 11th July 2016. There they will present…
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Dr. Madison Moore Discusses LEMONADE
Modern Moves researcher Madison Moore, our resident pop culture expert, recently appeared in a brief online video about Beyoncé’s Lemonade. The video outlines five reasons the visual album should be taken…
Dr Elina Djebbari Returns to Havana, Cuba
Dr Elina Djebbari just came back from her second trip to Havana, Cuba where she spent two weeks in March 2016. During the first half of her stay she attended…
Sambeando! Dr Michael Iyanaga’s visit to Modern Moves
Our newest Associated Researcher, Dr Michael Iyanaga, recently visited us for a packed week (4th-12th March). During his time with Modern Moves, Michael taught a seminar to the project’s MA…
Madison Moore Debuts ‘How to Go Clubbing’ At Performance Space Sydney
From February 20 to 21 Madison will be one of eight artists featured in Day for Night, a 24-hour extravaganza of art, performance, movement and lectures all focused on interrogating the queerness of nightlife.
Moving Group #5: Tango – Black Atlantic and Beyond
After the stupendous success of our Moving Conversation on Brazil, the Modern Moves research team is delighted to announce our fifth MOVING GROUP on Friday the 19th of February, on…
Modern Moves returns to Benin- with Magna Gopal
After a successful year of collaborations with the Benin International Salsa Festival, Modern Moves is all set to return to the Festival’s third edition (27th-30th January 2016). We are thrilled…
Moving Conversation #4: Benjamin Lebrave and Jesse Weaver Shipley
Modern Moves flagged off the second year of Moving Conversations with a West Africa feast! On Friday, 27th of November, we hosted a fabulous public talk with BENJAMIN LEBRAVE, DJ, Prolific…
Orchestrating the Nation: Music, Dance and (Trans)nationalisms
Orchestrating the Nation: Music, Dance and (Trans)nationalisms, a 2-day conference organised on Thursday 12th and Friday 13th of November in Paris and supported by Modern Moves and other partners as…
Katherine Dunham and Modern Moves
Modern Moves director Ananya Kabir’s first article on the dance practice of Katherine Dunham has just been published in the Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry! This article is based…
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Creole Power: Modern Moves Closing Party
Friday 4th May 2018 Anatomy Lecture Theatre (day) and Great Hall (evening) King’s College London, Strand Campus, WC2R 2LS Five years of Modern Moves draw to a close. Celebrate with…
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Moving Group 5: Tango: Black Atlantic and Beyond. Report by Ananya Kabir
Our fifth Moving Group was dedicated to an exploration of tango music and dance, and it involved a double bill. First, we heard Dr Kendra Stepputat, ethnomusicologist from the University…