After three years of intensive conversations and writing, my colleague Sinclair Ogaga Emoghene and I are excited to announce the release of our book, “Dancing in the World: Revealing Cultural Confluences.”
“Dancing in the World” podcast premieres today
Today is the day! Episode 1 of Sinclair Emoghene’s and my podcast, “Dancing in the World,” premieres today on YouTube and Spotify. In this first episode, we introduce ourselves and talk about our lives as dancers and academics, as well as the impetus for writing our book together. We also discuss how this podcast continues […]
Do Good Institute certificate completed
This week I finished up a two-year graduate certificate in nonprofit management and leadership at UMD’s Do Good Institute.
ICTM conference in Lisbon
I spent the last ten days in Portugal! I participated in the 46th ICTM World Conference, hosted by INET, the Institute for Ethnomusicology of the New University of Lisbon. I presented my paper, “Dancing the Video Archive: Tracing Irish Dance Style and Repertoire in Archival Database Practices,” as part of the Practices of Dance Archiving […]
Salem, Montserrat. March 2015.
Photo by Pablo Regis de Oliveira.
Featured guest on The Chris Scott Show on 105FM Down Community Radio
On March 16, 2022, I was a featured guest on The Chris Scott Show on 105FM Down Community Radio in Downpatrick, Northern Ireland. We chatted about the link between the Irish and the island of Montserrat, as well as my background in dance and dance research. It was a fun time, have a listen!
Cavalo marinho with Fabinho Soares. Photo credit: Paço do Frevo.
Dances of Resistance publications
I’m excited to share that my chapter “Dances of Resistance and Social Inclusion in Brazil: Frevo and Popular Dances of Pernambuco” has been published in the Springer Handbook for Social Inclusion. From the abstract: The term “dances of resistance” refers to dances around the world that are involved in strategic processes of liberation, activism, or […]
Photo credit: Kelvin Andrade
New articles, new projects
In the spirit of keeping this blog updated, I have a few things to share. Last year was busy and productive. It is amazing that I had just arrived in Recife two years ago, and now the articles about that research are finally being published. What a process! A Dance of Resistance from Recife, Brazil: […]
Guerreiros do Passo at Praça do Hipódromo, Recife. April 2018. Photo credit: José Henrique Lustosa Roriz.
Frevo in Recife, Brazil
I have been spending the past 5 months in Recife, Brazil studying frevo dance, with only one month to go! This project is made possible by a postdoctoral U.S. Scholar Fulbright grant. To find out more about my research, check out my blog: frevo.thekatespanos.com. Photo credit: José Henrique Lustosas Roriz
Postdoctoral Fulbright grant
I’m very excited to be heading to Recife, Brazil on a six-month postdoctoral Fulbright U.S. Scholar grant! I will be studying frevo, a dance and music genre from Recife and the state of Pernambuco, to continue my research on “dances of resistance” and the role of dance, music, and carnival/festival in cultural identity formation. I […]
Brades, Montserrat. December 2013.
Travel updates
Check out my Montserrat travel blog for updates on my fieldwork trip to research the music, dance, and performance culture on the island! I am posting photos and videos of the things I see and hear, and I am also writing about the workshops in Irish dance and West African drumming that I have been […]