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Dr. Lindsay Gary | Visual Dance Portfolio✨

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Ushindi Niwetu💫 | 🎓PhD MFA MA MPA
✨Choreographer | Professor | Dance Writer
🌍Umfundalai Licensed
Director @danceafrikana
Main: @doctor_linds

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Y’all! Your girl made it all the way to the New York Times!🥹🙌🏾📰

Kia Turner wrote a very timely piece on the tradition of line dancing in the Southern Black community, and its surge to global popularity, along with trail riding and our other traditions.🪭As a Houston girl with deep roots in Southwest Louisiana, zydeco and line dancing were the first dances I learned, so this story was very personal for me too. I was interviewed by her, along with some other amazing Black artists and culture bearers, and shared my knowledge.

Thank you so much Kia for interviewing me, and for SEEING our community! Having our story told by you, one of us, is so important! Thank you for allowing us to give context from our perspectives and for thinking enough of us to bring it to The New York Times! You’re a gem, as are you, DaLyah! Thank you for connecting us, and for sharing your knowledge!

Swipe to see some highlights from the article, including a couple of quotes from me!✨ Disclaimer: my photo is not in the article. taken in The New York Times by @lindsaydances_

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a year ago

“Where else can you see the hooka hooka next to Debbie Allen?” Only in my latest exhibition!✨ Thrilled to announce the opening of “Black Dance in Texas: The Way We Dance!”🩷

This exhibition has been a long time coming. It began back in 2020 when Dr. Alvia Wardlaw invited me to create it. Drawing from my lived experience as a dancer, choreographer, and scholar—and my time as a Rice University CERCL Scholar-in-Residence at the African American History Research Center at the Gregory School—we are finally here.

From Alvin Ailey and Debbie Allen to the hooka hooka and the Stanky Legg, I can’t wait to welcome you to experience and celebrate the way we dance down in Texas. 🩷❤️🖤🪘👢🩰

Join me at the exhibition reception: Saturday, February 28th from 12-2 p.m.

📍University Museum at Texas Southern University @UMuseTxSU
🗓️On View: February 14th-March 8th
🕥Tuesdays-Saturdays 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

Black Dance in Texas: The Way We Dance
Curated by Dr. Lindsay Gary
Presented by Dance Afrikana @DanceAfrikana

Dance Afrikana is a sponsored project of Fresh Arts, a non-profit arts service organization. Contributions for the purpose of Dance Afrikana must be made payable to Fresh Arts and are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.

This project is funded in part by the City of Houston through Houston Arts Alliance.

🎥 @FergusonImage @TheRodstradamus
🩷Pink Set: @eva_lauren_designs taken in University Museum at Texas Southern University by @lindsaydances_

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Another one of my favorite experiences in Ghana was my field class in Cape Coast!🇬🇭As a professor on Semester at Sea, I designed and taught a course called World Dance, where we explored dance traditions across Asia, Africa, and Europe, examining their cultural, historical, and contemporary significance.

A key theme was decentering colonial and Western narratives of dance that center Ballet and Western Modern/Contemporary as the standard—because ALL dance is cultural!😊

🌍In Ghana and Kenya, I had the amazing opportunity to lead my students on field classes. Here are some highlights from my Ghana field class with some of the most incredible students I could’ve asked for:

🪘Studied the many dances and rhythms of Ghana
✍🏾Attended a special lecture by Dr. John-Doe Dordzo at the University of Cape Coast on the inseparable connection between dance and music in Africa
💃🏾Learned dances and rhythms firsthand from local artists in Cape Coast
🙌🏾Met with a local chief and community elders
💨Witnessed a traditional ancestral libation ceremony

✨Swipe to check them out!
📸First 4 photos taken by: @morgieshamhams taken in Cape Coast, Ghana by @lindsaydances_

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Happy Mama K Day from Dance Afrikana!🎉

Mama K Day is a celebration of artist, choreographer, and scholar of African Dance, Dr. Kariamu Welsh.

🌍Dr. Welsh, affectionately known as “Mama K,” created the Umfundalai technique (Kiswahili for “essence” or “essential”), which she described as “a contemporary African dance technique that comprises its movement vocabulary from dance traditions throughout the diaspora.” Mama K was also the first Artistic Director of the National Dance Company of Zimbabwe🇿🇼and Professor Emerita at Temple University where she served on the African American Studies and Dance faculties for over 35 years.

Our director, Dr. Lindsay Gary (@doctor_linds @lindsaydances_ ), a licensed Umfundalai teacher, was one of the last cohort’s of licensed teachers to be approved by Dr. Welsh.🩷She had the opportunity to interview @monewwalks about the incredible legacy of Mama K on the very first episode of our podcast, Dance Afrikana, Dance!

🎙️Stream “Dancing Her Africa: Umfundalai & The Legacy of Dr. Kariamu Welsh” today to celebrate Mama K Day! More episodes coming soon!

#MamaKDay2026 by @lindsaydances_

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Nel and I have been dancing together for 10 years!🤯 Appreciate having your friendship and support throughout the years. You’re a powerful artist!🙌🏾

Thank you for blessing us with your Afro-Cuban Oshun class at @houstonblackdancefestival.🇨🇺The energy was so beautiful and healing!💛

And thank you @gabyvelasquezhoustontx for capturing these beautiful moments! Swipe!💫 by @lindsaydances_

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We love this post-class photo—standing under the portraits of Marcus Garvey and Kwame Nkrumah. These two men had a tremendous influence on the Pan-African ideologies of Ghana. This was the perfect way to end our Kete dance workshop!🇬🇭

Can you tell we enjoyed ourselves?!🥳

Stay tuned for more!💫 by @lindsaydances_

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Our Ghanaian Kete Dance Workshop with Dr. Emmanuel Cudjoe was a blast!🥳

Dr. Cudjoe, a scholar, dance artist, professor, and author of “The Embodiment and Transmission of Ghanaian Kete Royal Dance: From Palace to Academy,” is the son of an Asante chief.🇬🇭Experiencing his culture, artistry, and scholarship was truly a treat!

Thanks to all of you who came and shared with us!

Stay tuned for more!🩷🌍❤️ by @lindsaydances_

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Thank you Houston!!!

Together we represented our communities, our cultures, and our city!🤘🏾

Stay tuned for more festival highlights, and for the announcement of our next festival date!🥳

🎥 @fergusonimage taken in Houston, Texas by @lindsaydances_

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Can’t believe it’s already been a week since our 2nd Biennial Houston Black Dance Festival!🥳

🎥We were thrilled to launch our first Black Dance on Film Series for the festival! A huge thank you to our filmmakers and choreographers for screening their incredible films!

Swipe, and stay tuned for more festival highlights!🥳

📸 @fergusonimage taken in Houston, Texas by @lindsaydances_

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We don’t know about you, but we are still on a high from our 2nd Biennial Houston Black Dance Festival!🥳

A huge thanks to all of our amazing teachers, and to everyone who spent the day in dance with us!🩷🌍❤️🤘🏾

Swipe for some highlights to relive that beautiful energy💫 and be sure to join us Wednesday for our FREE Ghanaian dance workshop with Dr. Emmanuel Cudjoe!🇬🇭

📸 Thank you @fergusonimage for capturing these beautiful moments!

🗓️ And thank you to @eventsbybeckandcall for managing our festival! taken in Houston, Texas by @lindsaydances_

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Yesterday was truly a dream!🥹🩷❤️

Thank you so much to everyone who came out and supported Dance Afrikana’s 2nd Biennial Houston Black Dance Festival! I have so much to say but not enough room in this caption! But just know that my heart is truly full!

The energy we all brought and created was sooooo beautiful, positive, and powerful! We danced for our communities, our cultures, our ancestors, our Blackness, our city!🙌🏾

Thank you to all of our PHENOMENAL teachers, choreographers, and filmmakers, our percussionists, our amazing support staff, our venue, our grantors, and to all of you who came out! I am so moved by the light and unity and ease we had! Talk about healing!

🎥We’ll be sharing festival highlights here: @DanceAfrikana and here: @HoustonBlackDanceFestival.

🥳Dance Afrikana has more in store for our 10th anniversary so stay tuned! Swipe!💫 taken in Houston, Texas by @lindsaydances_

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Our 2nd Biennial Houston Black Dance Festival is here and we’re having a blast!🥳

Up next!
🇭🇹Haitian Dance with @banyandance
🇨🇺Afro-Cuban Orisha Dance (Oshun) with @iam_nel_lopez
🎥Black Dance on Film Series featuring films from @brittanybass_ @itsme.keda and @doctor_linds

Need tickets?!🎟️Tickets are still available online and at the MATCH Box Office!

See you soon!💫

🔗HoustonBlackDanceFestival.com

📍 @matchouston by @lindsaydances_

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