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Both European and African cultures play a role in the creation of an African Diasporic identity. The complexities and contradictions of these cultures make it difficult to define what it means to be Black within the African Diaspora. This chapter explores how these complexities can be problematic to artists working in the British dance industry, through artistic expression of Vicki Igbokwe, Alesandra Seutin, Freddie Opoku-Addaie, Jamila Johnson-Small, and Alexandrina Hemsley.
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Uzor, TM. (2018). Negotiating African Diasporic Identity in Dance: Brown Bodies Creating and Existing in the British Dance Industry. In: Akinleye, A. (eds) Narratives in Black British Dance. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70314-5_4
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