Performance and Social Justice. Ananya Chatterjea (Theatre Arts and Dance), Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley (English), and Jigna Desai (Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies) lead a discussion of how global politics impact on women's bodies and how to make an embodied response.
Performance and Social Justice. Ananya Chatterjea (Theatre Arts and Dance), Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley (English), and Jigna Desai (Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies) lead a discussion of how global politics impact on women's bodies and how to make an embodied response.
Choreography and the Brain. Wayne McGregor is a multi award-winning British choreographer, renowned for his physically testing choreography and ground-breaking collaborations across dance, film, music, visual art, technology and science. He is the Artistic Director of Wayne McGregor | Random Dance, Resident Company at Sadler's Wells Theatre in L...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Chafee, Matt; McGregor, Wayne
Created:
2009-09-10
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Choreography and the Brain. Wayne McGregor is a multi award-winning British choreographer, renowned for his physically testing choreography and ground-breaking collaborations across dance, film, music, visual art, technology and science. He is the Artistic Director of Wayne McGregor | Random Dance, Resident Company at Sadler's Wells Theatre in L...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Chafee, Matt; McGregor, Wayne
Created:
2009-09-10
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Kinesthetic Experience: Understanding Movement Inside and Out. Maxine Sheets-Johnstone will discuss methodology(ies), clarifying wayward terminological descriptions of movement and bodies (including the term embodiment and its derivatives), focusing on evolutionary and developmental synergies of meaningful movement, and honing in on the need for...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Sheets-Johnstone, Maxine
Created:
2009-03-24
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Kinesthetic Experience: Understanding Movement Inside and Out. Maxine Sheets-Johnstone will discuss methodology(ies), clarifying wayward terminological descriptions of movement and bodies (including the term embodiment and its derivatives), focusing on evolutionary and developmental synergies of meaningful movement, and honing in on the need for...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Sheets-Johnstone, Maxine
Created:
2009-03-24
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
A Conversation with Tania Pérez-Salas. Mexico's leader of contemporary dance, Tania Pérez-Salas's Compa√±ia de Danza is vibrantly known for their intense theatricality and surrealist choreography. Their combination of professional technique and expressive emotion drips with artistic passion from the stage. The obvious translation of human feelin...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Johnson, Ben; Perez-Salas, Tania
Created:
2010-09-23
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
The Thank-you Bar/THIS IS DISPLACEMENT. Interview with choreographer Emily Johnson and curator Carolyn Lee Anderson. When Emily Johnson was growing up in Alaska, most of her family gatherings would happen at her grandmother's home and bar called The Que-Ana Bar ('quyana' is the Yup'ik word for 'thank you'). Now living in Minneapolis, Johnson dep...
Why Scientists Must Dance. John Bohannon, a correspondent for the journal Science and a visiting scholar at Harvard University, will make the case that scientists, now more than ever, must dance. As evidence, he will show the results of last year's Dance Your PhD contest, a viral YouTube phenomenon in which scientists around the world interpret ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Bohannon, John
Created:
2010-04-22
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Why Scientists Must Dance. John Bohannon, a correspondent for the journal Science and a visiting scholar at Harvard University, will make the case that scientists, now more than ever, must dance. As evidence, he will show the results of last year's Dance Your PhD contest, a viral YouTube phenomenon in which scientists around the world interpret ...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Bohannon, John
Created:
2010-04-22
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Jawole Willa Jo Zollar in Conversation with Ananya Chatterjea. Jawole Willa Jo Zollar is the award-winning founder and artistic director of the acclaimed Urban Bush Women. Unflinching, provocative, and truth-telling, Zollar is celebrating her 25th anniversary as one of the most important artists and social agents of our generation. Jawole will d...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Chatterjea, Ananya; Zollar, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar
Created:
2010-10-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Jawole Willa Jo Zollar in Conversation with Ananya Chatterjea. Jawole Willa Jo Zollar is the award-winning founder and artistic director of the acclaimed Urban Bush Women. Unflinching, provocative, and truth-telling, Zollar is celebrating her 25th anniversary as one of the most important artists and social agents of our generation. Jawole will d...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Chatterjea, Ananya; Zollar, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar
Created:
2010-10-21
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Free Intermediate/Advanced Community Class led by Osnel Delgado Osnel Delgado has received major Cuban awards including the Premio a Mejor Coreografia del Concurso Solamente Solos (Award for Best Solo Choreography), and a Special Mention award at the VII Iberomerican Alicia Alonso Choreography competition in Madrid. He was a member of Danza Cont...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Saez, Fernando
Created:
2014-08-23
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Dancer as Driver: SOLO and the 2012 and 2013 McKnight Artist Fellows in Dance Northrop's McKnight Artist Fellowship program funds the commission of solo works for McKnight Dance Fellows from national and international choreographers selected by the dancers themselves. This turns the tables on the typical dancer-choreographer relationship, puttin...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Ramaswamy, Ashwini; Schroeder, Stephen; Ober, Tamara; Mosel, Kari
Created:
2014-09-11
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Emily Johnson/Catalyst and Doris Duke Fellow on SHORE: making a dance work in conversation with the world Originally from Alaska, she is now based in Minneapolis. Since 1998 she has created work that considers the experience of sensing and seeing performance. Her dances function as installations, engaging audiences within and through a space and...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Johnson, Emily
Created:
2014-02-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Rosas danst Rosas: A Panel Discussion of Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker's Dance-Theater Work Join Philip Bither, Walker Art Center's Senior Curator of Performing Arts, and performers from internationally renowned dance-theater artist Anne Theresa de Keersmaeker's production of her work Rosas, being mounted at the Walker in collaboration with Northro...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Bither, Phillip
Created:
2014-10-16
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Rosas danst Rosas: A Panel Discussion of Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker's Dance-Theater Work Join Philip Bither, Walker Art Center's Senior Curator of Performing Arts, and performers from internationally renowned dance-theater artist Anne Theresa de Keersmaeker's production of her work Rosas, being mounted at the Walker in collaboration with Northro...
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Bither, Phillip
Created:
2014-10-16
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Making Dances: The Voice of the Body The McKnight Fellowships award exceptional mid-career artists. Hear these three choreographers in a thoughtful and wide-ranging discussion of creative process in making dances.
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Fricke, Wynn; Smith, Joanie; Freeh, Penelope; Childs, Mary Ellen
Created:
2015-02-12
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
Making Dances: The Voice of the Body The McKnight Fellowships award exceptional mid-career artists. Hear these three choreographers in a thoughtful and wide-ranging discussion of creative process in making dances.
Creator:
Institute for Advanced Study
Contributor:
Fricke, Wynn; Smith, Joanie; Freeh, Penelope; Childs, Mary Ellen
Created:
2015-02-12
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota, Institute for Advanced Study.
