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Episode 8 with Aimee Cox
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My goodness... am I excited to tell you about Aimee Meredith Cox! She is PURE MAGIC! Aimee is an American cultural anthropologist, writer, and movement artist. She is currently an associate professor of Anthropologie at NYU. Aimee is the author of the book Shapeshifters: Black Girls and the Choreography of Citizenship. Shapeshifters earned the 2016 Victor Turner Book Prize in Ethnographic Writing, and an Honorable Mention from the 2016 Gloria E. Anzaldúa Book Prize, as well as the 2017 Book award from the Society for the Anthropology of North America.
Aimee has performed and toured internationally with Ailey II, the second company of Alvin Ailey American DanceTheater and the Dance Theatre of Harlem. She has choreographed performances as interventions in public and private space in Newark, Philadelphia, and Brooklyn.
Aimee is also a yogi of many decades. Yoga is integral to her life and her overall research. She leads yoga teacher trainings as well as advanced study and continuing education workshops around the globe. (We have one coming up, hee hee)
Aimee is also a teacher at The Class : a fitness driven workout that connects you to the present moment.
Aimee is a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, a recipient of the Nancy Weiss Malkiel Award, and has served as the Virginia C. Gildersleeve Professorship from Barnard College. Aimee you are such an force and an inspiration! Thank you for sharing your spirit and energy with us for for these Magical Moments.
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