Episode 161
Episode 134 [in English]: Esraa Warda & Mark Balahadia on Cultural Appropriation
Esraa Warda is a performance and teaching artist that preserves and transmits traditional Moroccan and Algerian dance forms through movement workshops and interactive performances. A young talent of Algerian origin, Warda is a community-taught dancer und
The Queer Arabs · Alia, Ellie, Ahmed, Nadia and Adam
October 23, 20200m 40sExplicit
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Show Notes
Esraa Warda is a performance and teaching artist that preserves and transmits traditional Moroccan and Algerian dance forms through movement workshops and interactive performances. A young talent of Algerian origin, Warda is a community-taught dancer under the mentorship of women elders in her family and artists from Morocco and Algeria. She is a firm advocate in the power of intergenerational transmission, women-led traditions, and decolonizing euro-centricity, Orientalism, and oppressed bodies in dance. Mark Balahadia is a Filipino American dancer specializing in the dances of Iraq and the Khaleej). Check out his earlier episode published on July 10! For this episode,…