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In Response to “RDG Got the Moves Like…Who?: Cultural Appropriation and Repertory Dance Group”

Post author By Wetlands Magazine
Post date April 27, 2014
6 Comments on In Response to “RDG Got the Moves Like…Who?: Cultural Appropriation and Repertory Dance Group”

Guest post by Jenny Malone-Brown I am going to cut to the chase here: as a woman of mixed-race heritage and a student at University of Puget Sound, I am confused and troubled by a recent article published online by Wetlands Magazine. Many aspects of the article were on-point in regards to Miley Cyrus “playing black” […]

Tags cultural appropriation, cultural exchange, dance, diversity, hip-hop, mixed race, multi-racial, RDG, repertory dance group, university of puget sound, wetlands, wetlands magazine

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Response to “Cultural Appropriation” from the President of Repertory Dance Group

Post author By Wetlands Magazine
Post date April 21, 2014
4 Comments on Response to “Cultural Appropriation” from the President of Repertory Dance Group

This guest blog by Jo Ann Kassebaum, President of the University of Puget Sound’s Repertory Dance Group (RDG), is a response to our earlier published piece “RDG Got the Moves Like…Who?” by Erika Barker. I would like to thank Wetlands and Erika Barker, in particular, for opening up the conversation about cultural appropriation on the Puget Sound […]

Tags campus diversity, Campus Progress, cultural appropriation, diversity, luao, RDG, repertory dance group, response, stomp, twerk, university of puget sound, wetlands, wetlands magazine