Meghan Abadoo, MFA dance student, contributes essay on art and racism in higher education

Meghan Abadoo’s essay, Dancing While Black, is featured in the fall 2015 issue of Terp Magazine’s series, “Sights Unseen UMD Community Reflects on Racism”.

Meghan Abadoo’s essay, Dancing While Black, is featured in the fall 2015 issue of Terp Magazine’s series, “Sights Unseen UMD Community Reflects on Racism”. Terp Magazine contacted Meghan following the premier of her TDPS Second Season production, Wake Up!, a site-based, dance theater piece inspired by the 1988 Spike Lee film, School Daze.

This is the third time responses to Meghan’s work as an anti-racist choreographer and dialogue facilitator have been featured in a campus publication. The DiamondBack reviewed Wake Up!, commenting on Meghan’s “strengths as a choreographer”, and featured an article, Be a White Ally, written by undergraduate student Nathalia Cibotti, in response to seeing Wake Up! in spring 2015..

Meghan premiers her newest work, Octavia’s Brood: Riding the Ox Home, in her thesis concert at the Clarice, October 15-16.