Dance Research Journal

Table of Contents - 2010 - Volume 42, Issue 01  

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Dialogues: The State of the Body

A State of Perpetual Becoming: African Bodies as Texts, Methods, and Archives

Awam Amkpa

Awam Amkpa is a dramatist, documentary filmmaker, and an associate professor of drama at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University; associate professor and program director of Africana Studies at NYU's College of Arts and Sciences; and a scholar of theater and film. He is the co-founder and co-curator of the annual Real Life Pan-African Documentary Film Festival in Accra, Ghana—a festival dedicated to African and African Diasporic filmmaking—and a curator of the photographic exhibition Africa: See You, See Me. His documentary films include Winds Against Ours Souls, It's All about Downtown, The Other Day We Went to the Movies, A Very Very Short Story of Nollywood, and the feature film Wazobia! He is also the author of Theatre and Postcolonial Desires and several articles on black Atlantic and postcolonial theater and film.