Naomi Bragin is a dancer and Associate Professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington-Bothell, where she teaches courses in hip hop dance, performance research, and Black performance theory. Her article "Shot and Captured," on policing, viral videos and Oakland Turf dance, won the 2015 ASTR Gerald Kahan Scholar's Prize and CORD Outstanding Dance Publication. She is the former founding artistic director of DREAM, an Oakland, California-based Streetdance company nominated for the Bay Area's Isadora Duncan Best Choreography Award. Her book project Black Power of Hip Hop Dance: On Kinethic Politics questions the ethics of studying Black movement between stage, street, studio, cyberspace and the underground. She writes, teaches and speaks about hip hop and club dances, popular culture and Black critical theory.
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