Tamara LaDonna Williams (Ifákẹ́mi Ṣàngóbámkẹ́ Moṣebọ́látán)

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Tamara Williams is an Associate Professor of Dance at UNC Charlotte. She earned her MFA in Dance from Hollins University in collaboration with The American Dance Festival, The Forsythe Company, and Frankfurt University. Her choreography has been performed nationally and internationally including Serbia, Switzerland, Trinidad & Tobago, Jamaica, Mexico and in Brazil. In 2011, Williams created Moving Spirits, Inc., a contemporary arts organization dedicated to performing, researching, documenting, cultivating, and producing arts of the African Diaspora. Williams’ award-winning (NDEO) book, Giving Life to Movement (2021, McFarland Publishing Co.), analyzes African-Brazilian dance histories and cultures. Her article "Reviving Culture Through Ring Shout" was published in The Dancer-Citizen and it investigates Ring Shout dance traditions created by enslaved African in the United States. Her book chapter “Dance: A Catalyst for Spiritual Transcendence” is the last chapter in the book, Fire Under My Feet: History, Race & Agency in African Diaspora Dance, published by Routledge. Williams’ research on African American Ring Shout traditions has been disseminated at several colleges and universities including The Florida State University, Arizona State University, Spelman College, Appalachian State University, Davidson College, Miami-Dade College, Slippery Rock University, College of the Holy Cross, Bard Early College, Mercyhurst College, The University of South Carolina and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She has created several community programs in New York City and Charlotte, NC providing opportunities for underserved communities to learn and practice dances of the African diaspora; histories and cultures which are strategically neglected in US education systems. Williams was commissioned by the Kaatsbaan International Dance Center to create a new work for Moving Spirits, Inc. in 2018. She is a College of Arts + Architecture faculty recipient of the 2019-2020 Board of Governors Teaching Award. In 2021, she became an Arts and Science Council Emerging Creative Fellowship recipient to continue her research in Ring Shout traditions in the low country of the United States. In 2021, Williams was awarded a Cultural Visions Grant from the Arts and Science Council to support the first annual LAVAGEM FESTIVAL! in Charlotte celebrating African diaspora and Indigenous communities, through Black Brazilian arts, history and culture.

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