Special Performance & Talk: Dr. Gretchen Schiller
Date: Oct 29
2:30 pm
- 4:30 pm
Where: Level 3 Atrium
Special Performance and Talk: Dr. Gretchen Schiller and Choreographic Contamination
How do gestures migrate across many forms, from the hand to the page, from the eye to a film, from a gut sensation to a piece of music? As we interact and intersect with art, we find the traces of others’ movements across time and space. Presented as part of the international conference “The Aesthetics of Contamination”, organized by Memorial University’s Department of English, this multi-disciplinary experimental performance is choreographed by Dr. Gretchen Schiller.
Music provided by Jamie Moran (vibraphone/marimba) and Brad Jefford (guitar).
Dancers include Sarah Stoker, Andyra Duff, Nicola Dawkins, Jennifer Dick, Robyn Noftall, and Robyn Breen.
Visual artists Leon Chung, Georgia Dawkin and Richard-Max Tremblay collaborate through gestural drawings. Dr. Schiller will speak about her practice and research during the program.
This is a free drop-in program, standing event.
More about the conference:
The Aesthetics of Contamination: Oceanic Environments, Identities, Intermedial Research Creation
Home | Aesthetics Of Contam (smuscat46.wixsite.com). Hosted by Memorial University.
About the presenter:
Dr. Gretchen Schiller, Director and Principal Researcher at the Interdisciplinary Performance Laboratory, Université of Grenoble-Aples. Dr. Schiller is a principal investigator at the Performance Laboratory - an IDEX label project that brings together academics from the fields of geography, performing arts and computer science over a period of 3.5 years. Her choreographic research focuses on the notion of embodied agentivity through participatory installations, "screen dances," performances, workshops, and critical writing. She obtained her B.A. in Dance and Francophone Canadian Studies from the University of Calgary (Canada), her M.A. in Choreography from UCLA (United States), and her PhD from the Science, Technology and Art Research Program at the University of Plymouth (United Kingdom). She was also a student in the Visual Arts Department at MIT Cambridge (United States).
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