{"id":6535,"date":"2015-03-30T11:37:21","date_gmt":"2015-03-30T11:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/?p=6535"},"modified":"2025-03-20T11:15:58","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T18:15:58","slug":"naomi-macalalad-bragin","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/ias\/faculty-and-staff\/naomi-macalalad-bragin","title":{"rendered":"Naomi Macalalad Bragin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Associate Professor<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"199\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/ias\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2023\/06\/IAS-Faculty-Bragin-Naomi-Square.jpg\" alt=\"Naomi Macalalad Bragin\" class=\"wp-image-28121\" style=\"width:200px;height:undefinedpx\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/ias\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2023\/06\/IAS-Faculty-Bragin-Naomi-Square.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/ias\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2023\/06\/IAS-Faculty-Bragin-Naomi-Square-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/ias\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/30\/2023\/06\/IAS-Faculty-Bragin-Naomi-Square-125x125.jpg 125w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"is-style-highlight-paragraph-grey-background\">B.A., Dance, Wesleyan University<br>M.A., Folklore\/Anthropology, UC Berkeley<br>Ph.D., Performance Studies, UC Berkeley<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/macalaladbragin.youcanbook.me\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here for Office Hours<\/a><br>Website: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.naomibragin.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">naomibragin.com <\/a><br>Email: <a href=\"mailto:bragin@uw.edu\">bragin@uw.edu<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Teaching<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><i>Introduction to Performance Theory<\/i>. Study of performance as a critical lens for uncovering power relations and articulating social implications inherent to systems of representation, highlighting transgressive and experimental artists.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><i>Introduction to Interdisciplinary Arts<\/i>. Co-taught with Professors Ali and Borsuk. Applying practical skills to academic study of visual art, literature and performance genres.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><i>Doing Performance Research<\/i>. Students make their own performances to pose research questions, building new conceptual vocabularies through counternarrative with an emphasis on revision.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><i>Street and Club Dance Workshop<\/i>. Studio course in hip hop, street and club dance techniques, emphasizing collective improvisation as choreographic process.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><i>Performing Community <\/i>(MACS Graduate Program): Applies performance methods and analysis to student research projects, with a focus on ethics of relations and culturally responsive research.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>In my classes, performing happens both on conventional stages and in everyday life, where potentially any event can be studied as a performance. I ask students to see themselves in the role of artist. Practices call deep attention to socially trained patterns of knowing and relating. I bring my community activist work into the classroom, facilitating group meditations and discussions about love, vulnerability, accountability and boundary setting, drawing on works by feminist and queer thinkers. Although I do present a basic itinerary for each of my classes, students\u2019 curiosity will often alter the map.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I teach all study as practices of seeing differently. To build more expansive ways to see, I use a method I call Noticing that connects somatics practices to Black Feminist pedagogies, especially in the work of Jacqui Alexander and Audre Lorde. Noticing is a way of full-body listening, accessing a range of resources from physical feelings to emotional responses, as part of engaging an intellectual process. Noticing allows meaning to be partially hidden, multiple and open-ended. Noticing brings vulnerability into critical research, which I consider integral to self-care and access-centered learning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Research and Scholarship<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I work across practices of dance, music, and writing, and collaborate with other artists to heal and recreate worlds. At 56³Ô¹ÏÍøB, I teach courses in cultural politics, self-care, dance and performance art as research practice. I collaborate with Professor Anida Yoeu Ali to produce campus and regional arts events through the IAS research group <a href=\"https:\/\/www.criticalacts.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Critical Acts: Socially Engaged Performance<\/a>, including our Visiting Artist Residency, Alive Performance Festival and Imagine Student Showcase. My book <em>Kinethic California: Dancing Funk and Disco Kinships<\/em> mixes dance ethnography and oral history to tell stories of streetdances created by youth living in Funk and Disco era California, whose everyday artistry helped set foundations for global contemporary hip hop dance. Published with the Dance Studies Association\u2019s Studies in Dance Series (University of Michigan Press), the book has received support from National Endowment of Humanities, Simpson Center for Humanities, Royalty Research Fund and the UC President\u2019s Postdoctoral Fellowship. <a href=\"https:\/\/press.umich.edu\/Blog\/2024\/05\/Q-A-with-Author-Naomi-Macalalad-Bragin\">Read an interview about the book here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I also collaborate artistically with Milvia Pacheco Salvatierra, Executive Director of <a href=\"https:\/\/movimientoafrolatino.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Movimiento AfroLatino Seattle<\/a>. Our current project, Little Brown Language\/Umalalengua Okan, researches submerged histories of resistance to colonial encounter in Venezuela and the Philippines, translated as dance-incantations. We have performed for On The Boards, Wing Luke Museum, Base Experimental Arts and Reflections Dance Festival. From 2002-2008 I directed DREAM, an Oakland, California-based streetdance company which toured nationally. Our piece Full Circle, a collaboration with hip hop dancer and AfroCuban folklorist Jos\u00e9 Francisco Barroso, was nominated for the Bay Area Isadora Duncan Dance Award in Choreography. I have been a New York City Hip Hop Theater Festival Future Aesthetics Artist and received funding from Creative Work Fund, Rennie Harris PureMovement, East Bay Community Foundation and Zellerbach Foundation. My work is deeply informed by three-decades study of African Diaspora dances in the US, Cuba, Brazil and Europe, and underground dancing in clubs and parties of 1990s Los Angeles, New York and the San Francisco Bay Area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Selected Talks<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>2022. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RbtduvjaEp8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Genre et Sexualit\u00e9 en Hip Hop et le Danse Waack.<\/a>\u201d Invited talk for S\u00e9minaires Pluridisciplinaire: Recherches sur le masculine. Campus Condorcet, Paris, France.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2022. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IEnhemY63J8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Danscendances de WAACK Table-Ronde.<\/a>\u201d Streetdancers Roundtable. Centre Dunois, Paris, France.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2020. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=m6r_dCH3Ad8&amp;t=2660s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Intimate Assembly.<\/a>\u201d&nbsp;Invited talk for Seminario Hist\u00f3rias da Dan\u00e7a. Museo de Arte S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2017. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/266154844\">S<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/266154844\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">hot and Captured: Streetdance from Hood to Screen.<\/a>\u201d&nbsp;Invited talk for Rencontres Internationales Regards Hybrides. Tangente and Agora de la danse, \u00c9difice Wilder, Montreal, Quebec.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Selected Publications<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>2024. (Kinethic California: Dancing Funk and Disco Kinships). (<a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/\/press.umich.edu\/Books\/K\/Kinethic-California2__;!!K-Hz7m0Vt54!gyRJz8jo0ubg3klpCKi87bFQ9cVeAa98SXCiuKVT6xCnDK0XL7Lc5m6kI3Yoh4sDUfGlfUtf_Q9G$\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/press.umich.edu\/Books\/K\/Kinethic-California2<\/a>) Dance Studies Association, Studies in Dance Series. Detroit: University of Michigan Press.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2022. \u201cStreetdance and Black Aesthetics.\u201d In Oxford Handbook of Hip Hop Dance Studies, eds. Mary Fogarty and Imani Kai Johnson. Oxford University Press.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2018. &nbsp;\u201c(On The Front Porch: Deborah McCoy and Fresno Streetdance.)\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/urldefense.com\/v3\/__https:\/\/tropicsofmeta.com\/2018\/04\/03\/on-the-front-porch-deborah-mccoy-and-fresno-streetdance\/__;!!K-Hz7m0Vt54!gyRJz8jo0ubg3klpCKi87bFQ9cVeAa98SXCiuKVT6xCnDK0XL7Lc5m6kI3Yoh4sDUfGlfUeqx4Cu$\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/tropicsofmeta.com\/2018\/04\/03\/on-the-front-porch-deborah-mccoy-and-fresno-streetdance\/<\/a>) Tropics of Meta (blog). Solicited by Fresno State Valley Public History Project.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2016. \u201cFrom Oakland Turfs to Harlem\u2019s Shake: Hood Dance on YouTube and Viral Antiblackness.\u201d In Oxford Handbook of Screen Dance Studies, ed. Douglas Rosenberg. Oxford University Press.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2014. \u201cTechniques of Black Male Re\/Dress: Corporeal Drag and Kinesthetic Politics in the Rebirth of Waacking\/Punking.\u201d Women &amp; Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory 24.1. Special Issue: \u201cAll Hail the Queenz: A Queer Feminist Recalibration of Hip Hop Scholarship,\u201d eds. Jessica Pab\u00f3n and Shant\u00e9 Paradigm Smalls.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2014. \u201cShot and Captured: Turf Dance, YAK Films, and the Oakland, California, R.I.P. Project.\u201d TDR: The Journal of Performance Studies 58.2.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Associate Professor B.A., Dance, Wesleyan UniversityM.A., Folklore\/Anthropology, UC BerkeleyPh.D., Performance Studies, UC Berkeley Click here for Office HoursWebsite: naomibragin.com Email: bragin@uw.edu Teaching In my classes, performing happens both on conventional stages and in everyday life, where potentially any event can be studied as a performance. 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