Episode 134 [in English]: Esraa Warda & Mark Balahadia on Cultural Appropriation

Esraa Warda is a performance and teaching artist that preserves and transmits traditional Moroccan and Algerian dance forms through movement workshops and interactive performances. A young talent of Algerian origin, Warda is a community-taught dancer under the mentorship of women elders in her family and artists from Morocco and Algeria.  She is a firm advocate in the power of intergenerational transmission, women-led traditions, and decolonizing euro-centricity, Orientalism, and oppressed bodies in dance. Mark Balahadia is a Filipino American dancer specializing in the dances of Iraq and the Khaleej).  Check out his earlier episode published on July 10!   For this episode,…