How Matters: On Methods, Movement and Theory-Practice Experiments

This session features scholar-artists Melissa Hudson Bell, Meiver De la Cruz, Adanna Kai Jones, Cynthia Ling Lee, and Hannah Schwadron on the role of choreographic experimentation in their respective writing projects, and how performance practice informs the methodological approaches to distinct research questions. Speakers focus on their own project strategies for dancing and writing as overlapping techniques of critical dance studies. While the “what” of individual projects varies widely, presenters share a mutual concern with “how” to engage bodily with scholarly discourse. Investigating these questions in the session takes two forms. In the first hour, invited presenters reflect on their own embodied research experiments within the scope of their independent writing projects. In the second hour, we delve more deeply into the “how-tos” of performance practice as research through a movement lab. Participating attendees can experiment with various techniques of physicalizing the thinking on core aspects of their own projects.

Friday, March 11, 2016

Bancroft Dance Studio, 5:00-7:00pm

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