<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Congratulations to <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="/people/catherine-cole"><strong>Catherine M.Cole,</strong></a> </span>Divisional Dean of the Arts and Professor of Dance and English, for the formal feature of her newest book, </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">Performance and the Afterlives of Injustice, </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">in the National Humanities Center’s Virtual Book Cl

<p style="text-align: center;"><em><span>To celebrate and to recognize that the contributions of Black Americans should be appreciated beyond the month of February, the Department of Dance is using its website and social media platforms to spotlight different Black dance artists in the greater Seattle area throughout the year of 2021. Additional features include:  <a href="/news/2021/02/02/kine-camara-afro-and-traditional-west-african-dance-choreographer-and-instructor">Kine Camara</a>, <a href="/news/2021/04/27/manimou-camara-west-african-arts">Manimou Camara</a>, <a href="/news/2021/06/03/dani-tirrell-choreographer-dancer-movement-guide">Dani Tirrell</a>, <a href="/news/2021/07/02/rujeko-dumbutshena-zimbabwean-guinea-west-african-and-congolese-dance">Rujeko Dumbutshena</a>, <a href="/news/2021/07/16/majinn-mike-oneal-dance-brings-joy">Majinn Mike O'Neal</a>, <a href="/news/2021/08/11/silvio-dos-reis-capoeira-angola-mestre-silvinho">Silvio Dos Reis</a>, and <a href="/news/2021/12/21/etienne-cakpo-traditional-contemporary-african-dance">Etienne Cakpo. </a></span></em></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Today, we celebrate Monica Rojas-Stewart. </p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img src="/sites/dance/files/images/monica_rojas_neptune_2015_erik_stuhaug_0.jpg" width="639" height="960" alt="Monica Rojas-Stewart dances in a red skirt " /></p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Monica Rojas-Stewart, Photo by Erik Stuhaug.</p>

<p style="text-align: center;"><em><span>To celebrate and to recognize that the contributions of Black Americans should be appreciated beyond the month of February, the Department of Dance is using its website and social media platforms to spotlight different Black dance artists in the greater Seattle area throughout the year of 2021.

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Read about our Winter 2021 course sections of DANCE 232: </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Intermediate Alternative Movement Studies in The Daily article written by Ariana Sutherland: </span></p>
<h1 itemprop="headline" class="headline"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.dailyuw.com/arts_and_leisure/article_4f4154f0-5eb1-11eb-bf4… gravity-defying to spiritual: The duality of DANCE 232</a></span></h1>
<blockquote><p>Choosing which section of a class to take can be a difficult decision on an ordinary basis. For DANCE 232: Intermediate Alternative Movement Studies, this choice will have you either flipping through the air in a harness, or meditatively and mindfully learning the patterns of your body’s movement... <span>While these distinct iterations of DANCE 232 will be going their separate ways in the near future, the sections remain, for now, two distant sides of the same alternative movement coin.<br /></span></p>
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<p><span>Read the full Daily article <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.dailyuw.com/arts_and_leisure/article_4f4154f0-5eb1-11eb-bf4…;
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Read about our Winter 2021 course sections of DANCE 232: </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">Intermediate Alternative Movement Studies in The Daily article written by Ariana Sutherland: </span></p>

<p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">To celebrate and to recognize that the contributions of Black Americans should be appreciated beyond the month of February, the Department of Dance is using its website and social media platforms to spotlight different Black dance artists in the greater Seattle area throughout the year of 2021. Additional<span> features include: <a href="/news/2021/02/25/monica-rojas-stewart-phd-afro-peruvian-and-afro-latinx-diaspora-dance">Monica Rojas Stewart</a>, <a href="/news/2021/04/27/manimou-camara-west-african-arts">Manimou Camara</a>, <a href="/news/2021/06/03/dani-tirrell-choreographer-dancer-movement-guide">Dani Tirrell</a>, <a href="/news/2021/07/02/rujeko-dumbutshena-zimbabwean-guinea-west-african-and-congolese-dance">Rujeko Dumbutshena</a>, <a href="/news/2021/07/16/majinn-mike-oneal-dance-brings-joy">Majinn Mike O'Neal</a>, <a href="/news/2021/08/11/silvio-dos-reis-capoeira-angola-mestre-silvinho">Silvio Dos Reis</a>, and <a href="/news/2021/12/21/etienne-cakpo-traditional-contemporary-african-dance">Etienne Cakpo. </a></span></span></em></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Today, we celebrate Afro Dance and Traditional West African Dance choreographer and instructor Kin<span>é Camara. </span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span><img src="/sites/dance/files/styles/large/public/images/kine3_0.png?itok=V_kRQQm9" alt="" class="image-large" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" />Photo by </span></span>Val Gonzalez</p>

<p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">To celebrate and to recognize that the contributions of Black Americans should be appreciated beyond the month of February, the Department of Dance is using its website and social media platforms to spotlight different Black dance artists in the greater Seattle area throughout the year of 2021.

<p> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Read the <a href="https://www.dailyuw.com/arts_and_leisure/article_6b389798-5544-11eb-9af… Daily’s article</a> by Jessica Wang on the course, “<a href="https://myplan.uw.edu/course/#/courses/DANCE345">Boogie, Break, Blues: American Popular &amp; Social Dance Histories,</a>” taught by Professor <a href="/people/juliet-mcmains">Juliet McMains</a>. </span></p>
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