Robert (Bob) Ramdhanie is a Trini-Guyanese arts activist/cultural producer who has been in arts management promoting “Black arts” in the UK for 40 years. He has travelled extensively throughout Africa, the Caribbean and Europe, and has received several awards for his contribution to arts development in the UK. He was awarded the Drum Arts Centre 1st Arts and Cultural Entrepreneur Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011; an MBE for his contribution to dance in 2018; and in 2026 Routledge published his seminal work, The Black Dance Movement in England 1940–2000. He is the co-founder of the Rupununi Music and Arts Festival in Guyana.
Interestingly, as historical records inform us, there was also a subtext related to many whites who were writing about, observing and “otherising” those Black bodies
in motion: the same Black bodies that displeased, publicly, satisfied both male and female Europeans privately.