07/23/2026
My research centers around what I call the Morphology of A.F.R.O. Kinetic Memory—a framework for examining how movement knowledge is preserved, transformed, and transmitted across generations. This work forms the foundation of my methodology and pedagogy, which I call Ethnocorporeology, a term I have trademarked.
Ethnocorporeology is the study of not only what the body is doing, but what the body is saying. It investigates movement as a living archive of cultural memory, identity, history, and human experience, recognizing the body as both an expressive and epistemological site through which knowledge is embodied, communicated, and inherited.
My research, study, and practice encompass social and folk dances from diverse cultures spanning the fourteenth century to the present. Be examining movement traditions across historical periods and geographic regions, I explore both continuity and transformation within embodied cultural practices.
Today, for example, I taught the dancers at Herrang Dance Camp the Virginia Reel which is connected to the Scottish Reel, tracing movement structures found in these dances reappear in the Big Apple dance.
This comparative approach helps illuminate how choreographic ideas migrate, evolve, and are recontextualized across communities and generations while taking on new cultural meanings. Enjoy
