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Dr. Nur Amin on BBC Podcast, Oti Mabuse's Dancing Legends
Todrick Hall joins Oti to champion the life & work of Debbie Allen & her multifaceted career with archive clips, and the expert help of dance scholar Dr Takiyah Nur Amin.
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BBC Dance Podcast
Takiyah Nur Amin named director of diversity, equity, and inclusion
Takiyah Nur Amin ’04 has been named the first director of diversity, equity, and inclusion for the College of Architecture, Arts, and Design.
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Virginia tech Xponential
Why Work “Holler at a Scholar”
Leslie & Drew are joined scholar, educator, and academic success strategist Dr. Takiyah Nur Amin. We talk all about the perils of academia that led Takiyah down her own path.
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the IRJ podcast
4 Ways Colleges Can Make auditions more equitable
Amin encourages college educators to use their program’s learning outcomes to shape their auditions rather than defaulting to older audition structures
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the dance teacher
Black Dance Forms Minus the Black Dancer
It is no secret that in most university dance programs… African diasporic forms are electives, rarely offered or required.
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Dance
Magazine
Reflections and Takeaways
PADEO’s Session on Equitable Processes for Dance Auditions and Admissions as written by Isabella mojares featuring dr takiyah nur amin
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the dance journal
The Prancing Elites Dance Their Way Up
Takiyah Nur Amin. am assistant professor of dance studies at UNC is a big fan of the Prancing Elites and is lyrical on the subject of J-setting, in which she can trace the threads of the African diaspora in this country.
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The NY times
stop banishing embodiment from worship
As a black Unitarian Universalist, one of the challenges I have faced in predominantly white UU spaces is a kind of separation from embodiment generally and dance in particular.
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UU
World
But are critics missing the point?
For Amin, the video raises different questions, “about what it means to be twerking in front of the Washington given that George Washington kept slaves
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the la times
