Miss Yassmin Foster-Paul

Yassmin V Foster is an early career researcher with a portfolio career, she currently works in higher education and the arts. Her background includes creative producing, movement direction, and choreography. She is also a founding member of Legs Eleven Sound System, established in 2011 and works within a broad range of contexts to create work that interrogates the social, artistic, and economic value of physical expression.

Yassmin's current research aims to ask and answer questions around how dance works, through the dance knowledgeability of Lovers Rock. The work will present the “crub”,  also referred to as “rub,” “rub a dub” and “scrub”, the dance movement practice which is the embodiment of Lovers Rock music. This hyper-sensual, slow, and emotive, co-authored couple dance is transmitted through the retention of Caribbean dance movement practices in Britain. The extension of Caribbean traditions and taste is reimagined in adolescent black Britons of the 1970s, who were thinking, feeling, and experiencing the effects of their presence.