Lynette Harper

Another Lynette

Lynette is a dancer and a scholar, a grandchild of immigrants from Lebanon and from Scotland.

“I was born and raised in Vancouver, where I looked like I belonged, with my fair skin and my father’s Scottish Protestant heritage. But my personality and values were profoundly influenced by my mother’s Lebanese family, and I shared her pride in a book about my grandfather, Solomon Mussallem. It wasn’t until I journeyed in the Middle East that I recognized that aspects of my character may be more Lebanese than Canadian.”

After initial training in Western dance forms, Lynette shifted focus to bellydance, and eventually to Arab and Turkish genres. Three decades later, she has developed unique a performance and teaching style in Middle Eastern contemporary dance. Now living on Vancouver Island, Dr. Lynette Harper is also an author, anthropologist and university instructor, committed to dialogue among cultural communities. Her dance and research projects explore representation and identity among Arab women dancers in diaspora.

Web site:
w www.lynetteharper.harpfin.ca

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