Collette Murray – Discover Dialogues

RSVP Now! Don’t Miss Our Conversation with COCO Murray

Thursday, March 21st, 2024
1-2pm EST

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Join Amy Bowring for a conversation with artist, educator, and scholar Collette Murray. Collette will discuss her Ph.D. research on dance education and anti-racist dance pedagogies.

collette “coco” Murray

Collette Murray is a multi-award-winning artist-scholar, dance educator, cultural arts programmer and arts consultant. Murray pursues a Ph.D. in Dance Studies at York University focusing on dance education and anti-racist dance pedagogies. Murray’s publications, advocacy and arts research centre around cultural arts education, decolonization in the arts and education sectors, and in amplifying African diasporic dance practices. Murray is Chair of the Board of Directors for the Dance Umbrella of Ontario and serves as a National Board member of the Canadian Dance Assembly. Murray presents at national and international conferences, and is the Artistic Director of Coco Collective offering culturally responsive projects that connect participants to African and Caribbean arts and operates her mobile dance education business (www.misscocomurray.com).

You can also catch Collette at the Gardiner Museum in the evening on March 21 – Voices of the Diaspora: An Intergenerational Conversation – Gardiner Museum