Choreographer
Halifu Osumare
Oakland, CA — scholar-practitioner · in the scene since 1972 · @halifuosumare
Signature move
West African and diasporic phrasing
Dancer, choreographer, and scholar. Her book Dancing in Blackness (2018) tracks four decades of practice across the Black diaspora — Ghana, Oakland, Hawaii. The 2007 The Africanist Aesthetic in Global Hip-Hop is one of the field's foundational texts. She holds both sides at once: practice in the studio, the citation in the archive.
