Ojeya Cruz Banks
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 201783 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Ojeya Cruz Banks |
| PRENOMES | Ojeya Cruz |
| SOBRENOME | Banks |
| ASSINATURA | BANKS O C |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Otago |
| ORCID | 0009-0003-9691-8384 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 8 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 8 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2009 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Pasifika Black
Pasifika Black: Oceania, Anticolonialism and the African World. 2022. By Quito Swan. New York: New York University Press. $27 (paper), $49 (hardcover or e- book)
Framing a Black Pacific Ethnosphere
Poiyonce is a dance that combined traditional Māori Poi with moves Beyoncé performed in her 2011 music video Move Your Body. Danced by students attending Tāreikura/Māori Arts Academy in Rotorua Aotearoa/New Zealand (NZ), this video clocked up over 1.5 million social media views. A media and dance analysis reveals that Poiyonce is not only a Poi meets Beyoncé dance, but it also signifies a Black Pacific ethnosphere in New Zealand. This research ex…
A Black Pacific Memoir
I am the Black Atlantic and the Blue Pacific. In my family tree, diaspora and Indigenous worlds are not binary; they are interconnected through histories of love, war, racism, military occupation, betrayal, trauma, migration, planting, and the sanctity of family on and off the island of Guåhan. In this photographic article, I chronicle a memoir and choreographic practice inspired by tracing my Black Pacific heritage. Oral histories shared with me…
Black and Blue in the Pacific
This forum was convened by Teresia Teaiwa to examine Afro-Diasporic art in Pacific. The contributions address film/video, visual arts, poetry, dance, memoir, and music. The section also includes brief remembrances by the contributors that commemorate the passing of Teresia Teaiwa
Atamira Dance Company and Indigenous Performance
Mutton bird rituals, harvesting kelp, bush clad hillsides, and the majestic moon illuminating the southern Pacific ocean at Kaka point/Catlins is danced by Aotearoa/ New Zealand’s stand out Atamira Dance Company based in Auckland. Their dancing is accompanied by the mesmerizing soundscape composed by Richard Nunns and Paddy Free, who provide rich audio textures that combine electronica beats with stone percussion and gourd instruments. The work i…
Katherine Dunham
This study focuses on the African American dance pedagogy designed by Katherine Dunham and how this story is linked to the intellectual genealogy of African American anthropology. Dunham is argued to be a “decolonizing dance pedagogue” to describe how she recovered important dance epistemologies relevant to people of the African diaspora. Reconciling the consequences of colonization and racism in the “new world,” she engaged in a “critical postco…
Critical Postcolonial Dance Pedagogy
This dance ethnography examines work conducted by the Dambe Project-a nonprofit organization that specializes in African performing arts education and mentorship. The study focuses on the implications of the organization's dance pedagogy in light of its postcolonial context and the importance of West African dance education in the United States. The study strives to be a conversation between the fields of anthropology and education, dance studies…
Critical postcolonial dance recovery and pedagogy
This paper examines how the historical punishment of the dancing body in (post)colonial contexts has been a measure for controlling the mind and undertaking effective cultural imperialism. I bring to focus the striking global dance movement to revitalise oppressed dance forms, in an effort to do what Tuhiwai Smith calls ‘the recovery of ourselves’. Borrowing from Freire’s notion of ‘the pedagogy of the oppressed’, I begin with a discussion about …
Critical Postcolonial Dance Pedagogy
This dance ethnography examines work conducted by the Dambe Project-a nonprofit organization that specializes in African performing arts education and mentorship. The study focuses on the implications of the organization's dance pedagogy in light of its postcolonial context and the importance of West African dance education in the United States. The study strives to be a conversation between the fields of anthropology and education, dance studies…
Critical postcolonial dance recovery and pedagogy
This paper examines how the historical punishment of the dancing body in (post)colonial contexts has been a measure for controlling the mind and undertaking effective cultural imperialism. I bring to focus the striking global dance movement to revitalise oppressed dance forms, in an effort to do what Tuhiwai Smith calls ‘the recovery of ourselves’. Borrowing from Freire’s notion of ‘the pedagogy of the oppressed’, I begin with a discussion about …
Black and Blue in the Pacific
This forum was convened by Teresia Teaiwa to examine Afro-Diasporic art in Pacific. The contributions address film/video, visual arts, poetry, dance, memoir, and music. The section also includes brief remembrances by the contributors that commemorate the passing of Teresia Teaiwa
Critical postcolonial dance recovery and pedagogy
This paper examines how the historical punishment of the dancing body in (post)colonial contexts has been a measure for controlling the mind and undertaking effective cultural imperialism. I bring to focus the striking global dance movement to revitalise oppressed dance forms, in an effort to do what Tuhiwai Smith calls ‘the recovery of ourselves’. Borrowing from Freire’s notion of ‘the pedagogy of the oppressed’, I begin with a discussion about …
Critical Postcolonial Dance Pedagogy
This dance ethnography examines work conducted by the Dambe Project-a nonprofit organization that specializes in African performing arts education and mentorship. The study focuses on the implications of the organization's dance pedagogy in light of its postcolonial context and the importance of West African dance education in the United States. The study strives to be a conversation between the fields of anthropology and education, dance studies…
Katherine Dunham
This study focuses on the African American dance pedagogy designed by Katherine Dunham and how this story is linked to the intellectual genealogy of African American anthropology. Dunham is argued to be a “decolonizing dance pedagogue” to describe how she recovered important dance epistemologies relevant to people of the African diaspora. Reconciling the consequences of colonization and racism in the “new world,” she engaged in a “critical postco…
Atamira Dance Company and Indigenous Performance
Mutton bird rituals, harvesting kelp, bush clad hillsides, and the majestic moon illuminating the southern Pacific ocean at Kaka point/Catlins is danced by Aotearoa/ New Zealand’s stand out Atamira Dance Company based in Auckland. Their dancing is accompanied by the mesmerizing soundscape composed by Richard Nunns and Paddy Free, who provide rich audio textures that combine electronica beats with stone percussion and gourd instruments. The work i…
Black and Blue in the Pacific
This forum was convened by Teresia Teaiwa to examine Afro-Diasporic art in Pacific. The contributions address film/video, visual arts, poetry, dance, memoir, and music. The section also includes brief remembrances by the contributors that commemorate the passing of Teresia Teaiwa
A Black Pacific Memoir
I am the Black Atlantic and the Blue Pacific. In my family tree, diaspora and Indigenous worlds are not binary; they are interconnected through histories of love, war, racism, military occupation, betrayal, trauma, migration, planting, and the sanctity of family on and off the island of Guåhan. In this photographic article, I chronicle a memoir and choreographic practice inspired by tracing my Black Pacific heritage. Oral histories shared with me…
Pasifika Black
Pasifika Black: Oceania, Anticolonialism and the African World. 2022. By Quito Swan. New York: New York University Press. $27 (paper), $49 (hardcover or e- book)
Framing a Black Pacific Ethnosphere
Poiyonce is a dance that combined traditional Māori Poi with moves Beyoncé performed in her 2011 music video Move Your Body. Danced by students attending Tāreikura/Māori Arts Academy in Rotorua Aotearoa/New Zealand (NZ), this video clocked up over 1.5 million social media views. A media and dance analysis reveals that Poiyonce is not only a Poi meets Beyoncé dance, but it also signifies a Black Pacific ethnosphere in New Zealand. This research ex…
Art (6 obras) · History (6 obras) · Dance (5 obras) · Diversity and Impact of Dance (5 obras) · Gender Studies (5 obras) · Sociology (5 obras) · Visual arts (5 obras) · Music History and Culture (4 obras) · Anthropology (3 obras) · Art history (3 obras)