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Embodying Black Experience: Stillness, Critical Memory, And The Black Body, Harvey Young
Embodying Black Experience: Stillness, Critical Memory, And The Black Body, Harvey Young
Harvey Young
In 1901, George Ward, a lynching victim, was attacked, murdered, and dismembered by a mob of white men, women, and children. As his lifeless body burned in a fire, enterprising white youth cut off his toes and, later, his fingers and sold them as souvenirs. In "Embodying Black Experience," Harvey Young masterfully blends biography, archival history, performance theory, and phenomenology to relay the experiences of black men and women who, like Ward, were profoundly affected by the spectacular intrusion of racial violence within their lives. Looking back over the past two hundred years---from the exhibition of boxer Tom Molineaux and …
Bullying In The York Corpus Christi Plays, Clifford Davidson, Shelia White
Bullying In The York Corpus Christi Plays, Clifford Davidson, Shelia White
Clifford Davidson
Realism And The Ethics Of Risk At The Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Kim Solga
Realism And The Ethics Of Risk At The Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Kim Solga
Kim Solga
The Stratford Shakespeare Festival is notoriously risk-averse, creating quality "classical" theatre without rocking any audience worlds. Or is it? This paper re-examines the history of "risk" at Stratford and explores two key productions directed by Peter Hinton at the Festival. I conclude that, perhaps, risk-taking directors and a "conservative" acting company serve the work very well indeed.
Movable Pillars: Organizing Dance 1956-1978, Katja Kolcio
Movable Pillars: Organizing Dance 1956-1978, Katja Kolcio
Katja Kolcio Ph.D.
Movable Pillars traces the development of dance as scholarly inquiry over the course of the 20th century, and describes the social-political factors that facilitated a surge of interest in dance research in the period following World War II. This surge was reflected in the emergence of six key dance organizations: the American Dance Guild, the Congress on Research in Dance, the American Dance Therapy Association, the American College Dance Festival Association, the Dance Critics Association, and the Society of Dance History Scholars. Kolcio argues that their founding between the years 1956 and 1978 marked a new period of collective action …
Video: Body Languages: Choreographing Biology, Katja Kolcio
Video: Body Languages: Choreographing Biology, Katja Kolcio
Katja Kolcio Ph.D.
Co-taught by professors Manju Hingorani and Katja Kolcio at Wesleyan University, this course was an introduction to human biology. From scientific and choreographic perspectives, students practiced movement awareness and learned basic principles of choreography, and applied these skills to the exploration of human biology. Manju Hingorani, Professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry Katja Kolcio, Associate Professor of Dance and Environmental Studies
David Garrick's Masque Of King Arthur With Thomas Arne's Score (1770)., Todd Gilman
David Garrick's Masque Of King Arthur With Thomas Arne's Score (1770)., Todd Gilman
Todd Gilman