Noxolo will reflect on a collaboration with Birmingham Royal Ballet and the (now defunct) Drum Intercultural Arts Centre, in which she worked with members of the community in the Lozells and Newtown areas of the city, to participate in dance and contribute to the devising of a ballet performance. Noxolo has often perceived her work on African-Caribbean dance to be much more directly relevant to her work on postcolonial and decolonial theory, but this talk interrogates this assumption, and works towards uncovering some complex links between community arts in Birmingham at a time of austerity, postcolonial/decolonial theory, and ballet.
