{"id":168,"date":"2019-08-26T22:16:58","date_gmt":"2019-08-27T02:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/danceandcommemorativejustice\/?page_id=168"},"modified":"2019-08-26T22:16:58","modified_gmt":"2019-08-27T02:16:58","slug":"mk-abadoo","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/danceandcommemorativejustice\/mk-abadoo\/","title":{"rendered":"MK Abadoo"},"content":{"rendered":"

MK Abadoo<\/strong><\/p>\n

Website: https:\/\/www.mkabadoo.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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Idris Talib Solomon Photography<\/p><\/div>\n

MK Abadoo\u2019s creative work exist at the crux of dance theater, racial justice organizing, and critical education studies. Combining\u00a0contemporary African dance, classical American modern and postmodern techniques, traditional Ghanaian movement, and social Funk styles,\u00a0Abadoo\u00a0draws from the “tradition of black literature and art that unites past and present in unsparing dialog.”<\/p>\n

She is currently on faculty in the Department of Dance and Choreography at\u00a0Virginia Commonwealth University,\u00a0as\u00a0an\u00a0inaugural Visiting Arts Fellow in the\u00a0Racial Equity, Arts and Culture Core of\u00a0iCubed, the Institute for\u00a0Inclusion, Inquiry & Innovation. She was recently named a “Breakout star of 2018,” as a member of Dance Magazine’s annual\u00a025 to Watch list of “rising stars”\u00a0in the dance field. In 2017 she was honored as a Forty\u00a0Under 40 awardee by Prince George’s County\u00a0Social Innovation Fund for her leadership and achievement\u00a0in the arts, and\u00a0commissioned by the John F. Kennedy Center for the\u00a0Performing Arts to create a new work for their Millennium Stage season.\u00a0As a 2016-2017 U.S. Fulbright Fellow,\u00a0she recently conducted eight months of creative research at the Noyam African Dance Institute\u00a0in Dodowa, Ghana, and with the National Dance Company of Ghana.<\/p>\n

Prior to this period, she performed for\u00a0over a decade\u00a0with internationally renowned\u00a0dance companies and choreographers including Gesel Mason, Liz Lerman, Urban Bush Women, David Dorfman Dance and the Dance Exchange.\u00a0As an educator, Ms. Abadoo is sought out for her keen ability to facilitate group learning as unique communities of shared wisdom, and embodied knowledge. She\u2019s worked with students as a guest artist at the University of Maryland, Brown University, James Madison University, East Carolina University, Dickinson College and the University of Virginia. She earned her BFA in Dance Education with a concentration in Modern Dance and and a minor in Strategic Advertising from the University of the Arts. She also minored in African\u00a0Studies as an international student at theUniversity\u00a0of Ghana, and holds an MFA in dance from the University of Maryland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MK Abadoo Website: https:\/\/www.mkabadoo.com\/ MK Abadoo\u2019s creative work exist at the crux of dance theater, racial justice organizing, and critical education studies. Combining\u00a0contemporary African dance, classical American modern and postmodern techniques, traditional Ghanaian movement, and social Funk styles,\u00a0Abadoo\u00a0draws from the “tradition of black literature and art that unites past and present in unsparing dialog.” She […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4482,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-168","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/danceandcommemorativejustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/danceandcommemorativejustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/danceandcommemorativejustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/danceandcommemorativejustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4482"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/danceandcommemorativejustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/danceandcommemorativejustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/danceandcommemorativejustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/danceandcommemorativejustice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}