With Heart | May
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About the speaker
A native of Buffalo, New York, Naila Ansari is an Assistant Professor in Theatre and Africana Studies at SUNY Buffalo State College. Naila Ansari, MFA, has published articles in Theatre Journal, received numerous grants and awards for performance and choreography. She has performed works by Darrell Grand Moultrie, Camille Brown, Kyle Abraham, Lula Washington to name a few. Her most recent project and a forthcoming book, Choreographies of Black Woman Joy, focuses on the performance of joy through the creative archiving of oral histories, movement histories, live-performance, and film. Ansari serves on the board for New York State Dance Educators Association, Co-Facilitates the Arts Advisory Committee for the Inner-City Muslim Action Network (IMAN) out of Chicago, Illinois, and is currently the Dance Director for Ujima Company, Inc., selected by the late Lorna C. Hill.
Additional details
‘WITH HEART’ is a limited, virtual series coming together live and in-experiment with past speakers, the BiC all-volunteer team, and you: Buffalo’s creative community. Together we’ll explore what’s driving creative capital investment in the now and here, with levity and a dutiful dose of sprinkles.
INTERPRETERS AVAILABLE
A sign interpreter is available, thanks to Deaf Access Services. To make arrangements, email us by the Wednesday before the event.
Photo from Beth Insalaco on CMbuf Flickr.
