The weekly Movement Lab is intended for Middlebury faculty and staff interested in participating in playful movement exploration. The first hour is dedicated to improvisational play through movement and the second hour involves experimentation with the choreographic process and collaboratively generating material or scores to be developed and shared informally with the community at the close of the semester. No previous experience necessary.
Resources
Changing the Framework: Disability Justice
How Our Communities Can Move Beyond Access to Wholeness
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by Mia Mingus
image from Leaving Evidence blog post
RADIOLAB
Postscript: David Bowie
Theatre Artists with Disabilities are Ready, Willing, and Yes, Able
The Clifford Symposium: The “good” Body
Symposium Write Up in “The Middlebury Campus”
Bringing Guantánamo to Park Avenue
By LAURIE ANDERSON, The New Yorker
Mohammed el Gharani and Laurie Anderson have worked together to create the “Habeas Corpus” installation, which will be shown at the Park Avenue Armory on October 2nd through 4th.
CREDIT PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY LAURIE ANDERSON
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Going Gaga for Ohad Naharin
Going Gaga for Ohad Naharin
by Anna Della Subin, NY Times
‘There is something about Gaga that makes you realize that joy and pain and sadness can live in the same space; they don’t contradict each other.’’
Ohad Naharin, the artistic director of the Tel Aviv–based Batsheva Dance Company and the inventor of Gaga, a vocabulary that provokes dancers to respond to ideas and their own sensations to create precise forms.
Credit Michal Chelbin
On Point with Tom Ashbrook
We know from our language that the body is deeply engaged in our understanding of the world. A joke is side-splitting. We get butterflies in our stomach. Our eyes pop with surprise. Our blood runs cold. But my guest today says humans have radically retreated from the wisdom of the body’s signals to a hegemony of the brain, the intellect. In many ways, sitting at keyboards and screens, we’ve abandoned, forgotten the embodied cognition in the work of hands and backs. Time to get it back, he says. This hour On Point, when the brain is not enough. Intelligence in the flesh. – Tom Ashbrook
New research on cognitive science suggests a greater link between the physical body and the realization of the mind.
(Nate Kat / Flickr)