5/8/12: CHEW ON THIS
TUESDAY AT 12PM
KAUFMAN STUDIO 208
Alessandra Williams!
AN EXPLORATION OF LAND, NARRATIVE AND PERFORMANCE!
This presentation is the performance produc@on for Alessandra Williams’s Master’s thesis work. In this 25‐minute solo piece, Williams uses theatre, song, spoken word, and dance to explore how narrative helps to exemplify an important context of land politics in the twentieth century. Additionally, she uses written text to accomplish two things: first, to position a former black woman sharecropper’s
memory of land dispossession within economic theory and debate; second, to examine how this specific narrative reveals the role property ownership played in historical events of lynching or vigilante violence. Williams concludes by positing that the performance of this narrative might radically transform our understandings of the links between racism and capitalism in the US.
Alessandra Williams is in her second‐year as a Culture and Performance
PhD student at UCLA. Through an interdisciplinary approach, her research
explores land, narrative, gender and performance. She received her
Bachelor’s in American Studies and Dance at Macalester College.
Originally from Minneapolis, her community organizing work earned her
the Grassroots Solutions Organizer of the Year Award and she remains
committed to bridging the worlds of academe, art, and community.
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