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Billie's Reflections, Billie Wynn, Melisa Achoko Allela, Movement Lab Jan 2024

Billie's Reflections, Billie Wynn, Melisa Achoko Allela, Movement Lab

Student Reflections

No abstract provided.


Raul's Reflections, Raul Falcon, Melisa Achoko Allela, Movement Lab Jan 2024

Raul's Reflections, Raul Falcon, Melisa Achoko Allela, Movement Lab

Student Reflections

No abstract provided.


Simone's Reflections, Simone Khanyi Hadebe, Melisa Achoko Allela, Movement Lab Jan 2024

Simone's Reflections, Simone Khanyi Hadebe, Melisa Achoko Allela, Movement Lab

Student Reflections

No abstract provided.


Taira's Reflections, Taira Schurman, Melisa Achoko Allela, Movement Lab Jan 2024

Taira's Reflections, Taira Schurman, Melisa Achoko Allela, Movement Lab

Student Reflections

No abstract provided.


Fatma's Promise, Husna Abubakar, Simone Khanyi Hadebe, Clarissa Guzman Jan 2024

Fatma's Promise, Husna Abubakar, Simone Khanyi Hadebe, Clarissa Guzman

Group Presentations

No abstract provided.


Wendigo, Raul Falcon, Zoe Gilmore Jan 2024

Wendigo, Raul Falcon, Zoe Gilmore

Group Presentations

No abstract provided.


Skeleton Man, Billie Wynn, Sagian Shaw, Taira Schurman Jan 2024

Skeleton Man, Billie Wynn, Sagian Shaw, Taira Schurman

Group Presentations

No abstract provided.


Rise, Ning Yen, Omar Abdelhamid, Erin Xi, Nicole Xu Jan 2024

Rise, Ning Yen, Omar Abdelhamid, Erin Xi, Nicole Xu

Group Presentations

No abstract provided.


Sagian's Reflections, Sagian Shaw, Melisa Achoko Allela, Movement Lab Jan 2024

Sagian's Reflections, Sagian Shaw, Melisa Achoko Allela, Movement Lab

Student Reflections

No abstract provided.


Motion Capture For Orature Wintersession 2024 | Syllabus, Melisa Achoko Allela, Movement Lab Jan 2024

Motion Capture For Orature Wintersession 2024 | Syllabus, Melisa Achoko Allela, Movement Lab

Course Materials

This winter session course invites students to explore motion capture through the lens of traditional oral storytelling practices. Students will actively identify the unique and distinguishing features of orature, and leverage their own cultural backgrounds, personal perspectives, and idiosyncrasies to create motion capture data that can be used in crafting an immersive digital retelling of a folktale.


Songa: A Mocap Database, Melisa Achoko Allela, Movement Lab Jan 2024

Songa: A Mocap Database, Melisa Achoko Allela, Movement Lab

Course Materials

No abstract provided.


Session 1 | Orature: Setting The Foundation, Melisa Achoko Allela, Movement Lab Jan 2024

Session 1 | Orature: Setting The Foundation, Melisa Achoko Allela, Movement Lab

Course Materials

Presentation for the Motion Capture and Orature course offered during the 2024 Wintersession.


Session 3 | The Oral Storyteller, Melisa Achoko Allela, Movement Lab Jan 2024

Session 3 | The Oral Storyteller, Melisa Achoko Allela, Movement Lab

Course Materials

Presentation for the Motion Capture and Orature course offered during the 2024 Wintersession.


Session 2 | Oral Storytelling Space / Place / Time, Melisa Achoko Allela, Movement Lab Jan 2024

Session 2 | Oral Storytelling Space / Place / Time, Melisa Achoko Allela, Movement Lab

Course Materials

Presentation for the Motion Capture and Orature course offered during the 2024 Wintersession.


Session 4 | The Talking Cloth As Prop, Melisa Achoko Allela, Movement Lab Jan 2024

Session 4 | The Talking Cloth As Prop, Melisa Achoko Allela, Movement Lab

Course Materials

Presentation for the Motion Capture and Orature course offered during the 2024 Wintersession.


Session 5 | Oral Storytelling Props And Costume, Melisa Achoko Allela, Movement Lab Jan 2024

Session 5 | Oral Storytelling Props And Costume, Melisa Achoko Allela, Movement Lab

Course Materials

Presentation for the Motion Capture and Orature course offered during the 2024 Wintersession.


Session 7 | Audience Role And Interaction, Melisa Achoko Allela, Movement Lab Jan 2024

Session 7 | Audience Role And Interaction, Melisa Achoko Allela, Movement Lab

Course Materials

Presentation for the Motion Capture and Orature course offered during the 2024 Wintersession.


Session 6 | Motion Capture For The Storytelling Performance, Melisa Achoko Allela, Movement Lab Jan 2024

Session 6 | Motion Capture For The Storytelling Performance, Melisa Achoko Allela, Movement Lab

Course Materials

Presentation for the Motion Capture and Orature course offered during the 2024 Wintersession.


Session 8 | Non-Verbal Storytelling: Facial Expressions, Melisa Achoko Allela, Movement Lab Jan 2024

Session 8 | Non-Verbal Storytelling: Facial Expressions, Melisa Achoko Allela, Movement Lab

Course Materials

Presentation for the Motion Capture and Orature course offered during the 2024 Wintersession.


Session 9 | Digital Immersion & Presence In Oral Storytelling: Being There, Melisa Achoko Allela, Movement Lab Jan 2024

Session 9 | Digital Immersion & Presence In Oral Storytelling: Being There, Melisa Achoko Allela, Movement Lab

Course Materials

Presentation for the Motion Capture and Orature course offered during the 2024 Wintersession.


Playing Changes: Music As Mediator Between Japanese And Black Americans, E Taylor Atkins Jan 2024

Playing Changes: Music As Mediator Between Japanese And Black Americans, E Taylor Atkins

Faculty Books & Book Chapters

Since the mid-twentieth century, music has played a central role in encounters and interactions between the people of Japan and those of African descent. It proved far more effective for pro- moting interracial dialogue and understanding than efforts in the early 1900s to foster an alliance against white supremacy and imperialism. This essay unpacks the ways that encounters with Black music transformed Japanese musicking and generated knowledge and empathy for people of African descent among Japanese. Personal interactions between Black and Japanese musicians constituted a process of “grassroots globalization” that circumvented the dominance of American mass media in representing African …