M. Cynthia Oliver is associate professor of dance at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and an award-winning choreographer whose dances focus on women, Caribbean culture, and mythology. Her work has appeared in Women and Performance, Movement Research Journal, and other periodicals.
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