Episode 20 - Alicia Bauman-Morales

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Alicia Bauman-Morales is an Oakland born Boricua tomboi, a queer woman, a dancer/organizer/performer/trouble maker. During our conversation Alicia brings the wealth of her Ancestry forward by calling the names of many in her blood lineage. She speaks of  coming from fantastical storytellers, people committed to doing things on their own terms. She names some of her teachers and influences, as she shares some of her Journey in learning how to nurture/and be in her body. BAAD! Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance recently presented Alicia's huracán: storm medicine - a personal dance story, living altar and town hall about destruction, translation, and the transformative power of storms. Told from the body and voice of a queer, light skinned Oakland boricua, storm medicine is queer spanglish dance ritual in homage to the unseen powers that trip us up, shake us awake and call us home.

Alicia's performance practice is shaped by Oakland turf dance (she grew up in Oakland and her first studio was the sidewalk), tomboy physicality, house dance, martial arts, kitchen and backyard salsa, altar building, western modern forms and, recently, Step.  She is or has been a proud collaborator/performer with Arthur Aviles Typical Theater, NWA Project, Renegade Performance Group, MBDance, Brown Girls Burlesque,  Roots and River Productions and PISO Proyecto, and has shown work in four of the five boroughs of New York and Puerto Rico. She is a proud organizer with ACRE, Artists Co-Creating Real Equity.

Regarding organizing in solidarity with people in Puerto Rico right now, Alicia suggests, "direct support of our people in PR via donations of money and supplies, and by writing notes...and putting political pressure on politicians in the U.S"  and check out: Colectivo Ilé, a women's collective doing racial justice work and community sustainability through women's entrepreneurship. 

During our conversation Alicia names some of her teachers and influences/including:
Amara Tabor-Smith  Arthur Aviles jumatatu m. poe  Luisah Teish Marc Bamuthi Joseph

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