Thanks for an engaging and important class discussion today. To follow up, please read the Op-Ed essay “In Defense of Cultural Appropriation.” I think there’s a lot in this essay we can productively engage with as we encounter the arts together–and even in places you perhaps did not expect it like the ballet. Let’s keep the discussion going.

But first, watch this clip of Beyoncé:

And, as a follow up for you dance lovers in the class (and I hope we’ve created a few), here is a film of Alvin Ailey’s “Revelations,” one of the seminal modern dances of the last century.