Timedancers

Timedancers

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Freedom Beyond Light Supremacy: Painting Dance

A meditation on color, embodiment and the Romani sacredness of darkness

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Russell Patrick Brown, PhD
Oct 22, 2025
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Jackie has been teaching me to paint my dance. I used to think color was something we saw, but lately I’ve come to understand it as something we feel—a story of liberation from colonial narratives perpetuated in light and dark.

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