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    A riverside tale : anti-colonial worldmaking in dance through Amazonian storytelling
    (2022-05-10) Monteiro, Angelica; Anderson, Charles O.; Gionfriddo, Erica; Mason, Gesel
    My thesis performance, A Riverside Tale, investigates embodied storytelling through the lens of the Brazilian Amazon to propose ways to decolonize imagination in movement making and to center Amazonian culture as a creative landscape in the field of dance. It dives into the myth of the Boto from Amazonian cosmology to identify colonial thinking in traditional folklore and propose a counternarrative of the myth based on feminist and anti-racist epistemologies. I approach storytelling as an embodied methodology in conversation with the science fiction and fantasy concepts of visionary fiction and Africanjujuism, coined by authors Walidah Imarisha and Nnedi Okorafor respectively. A Riverside Tale offers one strategy for decolonizing imagination in dance, acknowledging that it is an ongoing process that must take into consideration the voices of underrepresented populations.