LECTURE SERIES | Embodied Ecologies: A Critical Conversation Between Dance Studies and the Environmental Humanities
375 Santa Teresa Street, Stanford, CA 94305
Arts Institute
Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity
Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Program in Modern Thought and Literature
Stanford Global Studies Division
Stanford Humanities Center
THU-FRI APR 20-APR 21
ROBLE GYM
FREE | SEE EVENT PAGE FOR ADMISSION DETAILS
As we continue to live under and in orientation towards climate catastrophe, its seemingly unending consequences simultaneously exhaust global address yet demand renewed artistic and intellectual attention. Across disciplinary divides, scholars have heeded this call to put forward networked thinking about human impact on the environments that we inhabit and more-than-human vitality. Yet there has been a curious dearth of embodied responses to ecology and climate catastrophe in mainstream dance studies, given that concerns of eco-criticism, forced eco-migration, and capitalistic exploitation of the environment so often exist beyond frames of language. How can movement vocabularies and choreographic possibilities intervene with new agency/urgency on these themes that exceed language and clear legibility, and bring into relief body-to-body entanglements?
In this series of public dance events, we invite a conversation on how dance/studies’ embodied responses can help imagine a world otherwise, in which environmental relations are restructured toward survivance, regeneration, and values of communalism. We are joined by choreographer Lee Su-Feh and scholar-artist Rosemary Candelario, who will share individual work and join together in conversation on the intersections of embodiment and ecology in the unsteady terrain of climate futures.
The Embodied Ecologies Event Series is supported by TAPS; Stanford Humanities Center; Stanford Global Studies; Feminist Gender and Sexuality Studies; Modern Thought and Literature; Asian American Studies; and Stanford Art Institute.
EVENTS
PERFORMANCE/LECTURE
TOUCH ME HOLD ME LET ME GO with Lee Su-Feh
THU APR 20 at 7:30PM in ROBLE GYM 113 | FREE & OPEN to the PUBLIC
WORKSHOP/LECTURE
“Butoh Ecologies” with Rosemary Candelario
FRI APR 21 at 10AM in ROBLE GYM 113 | FREE & OPEN to the PUBLIC
DISCUSSION PANEL
Embodied Ecologies Lunch Conversation
FRI APR 21 at NOON in ROBLE GYM LOUNGE | FREE & OPEN to STANFORD COMMUNITY