“Dancing the Afrofuture” San Francisco Book Launch and Reading

Submitted by the Event Organizer

SOMArts Cultural Center is honored to celebrate the launch of dancer, cultural activist, author, and scholar Halifu Osumare’s second book, Dancing the Afrofuture: Hula, Hip-Hop, and the Dunham Legacy on Tuesday, March 19, 7–9 PM PST.

This all-ages event features a book reading by the author and performances by PUSH Dance Company.

Dancing the Afrofuture is the story of a dancer with a long career of artistry and activism who transitioned from performing Black dance to writing it into history as a Black studies scholar. Following the personal journey of her artistic development told in Dancing in Blackness, Halifu Osumare now reflects on how that first career—which began during the 1960s Black Arts Movement—has influenced her growth as an academic, tracing her teaching and research against a political and cultural backdrop that extends to the twenty-first century with Black Lives Matter and a potent speculative Afrofuture.

Published with the University Press of Florida, copies of the book will be available for purchase at the event!

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