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Dance We Do: A Poet Explores Black Dance As part of CATF's UNMUTED digital experience, we've joined forces with Shepherd University's Contemporary Theater Studies program to bring you a panel discussion that celebrates the work of playwright, artist, and civil rights leader Ntozake Shange, best known for her play for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf, and her posthumously published book, Dance We Do: A Poet Explores Black Dance. Shepherd University theater professor Reneé L. Charlow, who was Ntozake’s personal assistant from 2014-2018, and wrote the afterword for Dance We Do, joins Halifu Osumare and Dianne McIntyre, in a discussion led by Laurie Goux - that surrounds the legend and impact Ntozake Shange and her book Dance We Do. Ready to read? Is Dance We Do the perfect gift for someone on your list? Order your copy from our partner Four Seasons Books by email or give them a ring at 304-876-3486. 
Ask for your copy to be autographed by Reneé. Ntozake Shange Playwright, poet, novelist, dancer, civil rights activist Ntozake Shange has been recognized as one of America’s greatest writers, an acknowledged master in the genres of drama, fiction, memoir, and poetry and achieved iconic status as a primary voice of women and persons of color. Shange was raised mainly in Trenton, NJ and St. Louis, MO. In her childhood, she was affected deeply by the Civil Rights Movement and forced school busing. Later, attending Barnard College in the late 1960s, she came under the influence of a wide variety of radical movements, including the antiwar Vietnam protests, feminism, the Black arts and Black liberation movements, the Puerto Rican liberation movement, and the Sixties sexual revolution. She later became a voice for all these social justice movements, but above all she spoke for, and in fact embodied, the ongoing struggle of Black women for equality. Official Ntozake Shange Laurie Goux Dancer, dance educator  Laurie Goux, B.A., in dance, ...