Through a moving body/a mobilized body/a body of movements, A Fala que Faz seeks to understand the deployment of racial identity as politics cum aesthetics. In the groove and on many ?ones,? Black people in the city of Salvador have utilized the Carnaval as a political tool and sometimes weapon to articulate their needs for unfettered access to the rights of citizenship?space, health, religious freedom, work, fair wages, unmitigated pleasure and joy. Always already in performance, black skin over-stimulates the folly of the Mardis Gras, igniting a decontextualization of pleasure, marking up time and space through its own representation. Through ethnographic research, performance excavation, political economic analyses and oral histories, contestatory voices vie to tell the story of ?Blackitude,? and make it matter, this telling of things usually parsed over shaking backsides, rhythm, sweat, and spirit.
Dr. Anna B. Scott (b 1969) writes so much, that most folks don't believe she is a dancer, or even a pedestrian for that matter. Wedded to her trusty laptop, the Doctoradancer churns out lots of words on a daily basis about dance, choreography of society, selling tickets, and saving the world with a good two-step, not necessarily in that order. She is published in international journals on dance and cultural theory and performs regularly in Los Angeles. Her first book, A Fala Que Faz/Words That Work, is an ethnography of dance and politics in Salvador, Brazil. A convergent human, Scott uses her ongoing research into rhythm, brands, and technology to make dance as a civic duty.
Born in Iowa City, Iowa while her father finished a master's degree in Chemistry (thus making her a mutant at birth), Anna grew up in Holly Springs, Mississippi, a small town of tall tale tellers and back alley dance halls. That she would eventually make a living from this twist of fate is absolutely preposterous, but please do not tell anyone else; especially her. A proud mother of two madcap scientists who further the fiction that she is a mutant, Scott has mastered time in order to deliver home cooked meals and meet blogging deadlines. Why You Should Never Dance While Making a Sandwich is her first kid's book, and she hopes not her last.
