The Schedule
Day 1
February 23rd, 2023
8:15a - 8:45a
Coffee, Warmup, Intention Setting, & Opening Remarks
Spencer Ivy
MCD Lobby
Session 1: Meaning & Movement
9:00a - 9:40a
Affectivity in the Artistic Experience of Dance
Petronella Foultier
MCD Theater
9:50a - 10:30a
Meaningful and Mythic Movement: Susanne Langer's Philosophy of Dance
Michael Trocchia
MCD Theater
10:40a - 11:20a
The Meaning in Contemporary Dance
Edyta Kuzian
MCD Theater
Lunch 11:20a - 12:25p
Session 2: Improvisation, Play, & The Divine (Active Workshops)
12:30p - 1:50p
Creativity, Improvisation, & Play
Eric Handman & Thi Nguyen
MCD Studio 240
2:00p - 3:20p
Embodied Movement: Accessing Immateriality through Materiality
Joselli Deans
MCD Studio 240
Break: 3:20p - 4:00p
First Keynote Address
4:00p - 5:00p
Playing the Changes: Corporeal Orature and Black Aesthetic Liveliness
Thomas DeFrantz
HEB, Room#: 2004
Break: 5:00p - 5:30p
Gala Performance @ MCD Theater: 5:30p - 7:30p
Day 2
February 24th, 2023
8:15a - 8:45a
Coffee, Warmup, Intention Setting
Spencer Ivy
Dumke Room, Alumni House
Session 3: Circus & Spectacle
9:00a - 9:40a
Subversive Gestures: Living without horologue time and its parallel of my hair suspension practice
Mykelle Walton
Dumke Room, Alumni House
9:50a - 10:30a
In Defense of the Spectacle
Meg Wallace
Dumke Room, Alumni House
Break: 10:30a - 10:45a
Session 4: Cognition & Creativity
10:50a - 11:30a
What is Creativity?
Lindsay Brainard
Dumke Room, Alumni House
11:40a - 12:20p
Six Forms of Dance Cognition
Ben Baker
Dumke Room, Alumni House
Lunch Break 12:20p - 2:00p
Session 4: Partnering & Epistemology (Active Workshop)
2:00p - 3:00p
Practicing Joint Action through Attunement: A Somatic Partnering Workshop
Ilya Vidrin
Dumke Room, Alumni House
Break: 3:00 - 3:15
Session 5: Style
3:15p - 4:00p
Control Models and Styles of Skillful Action
Noam Tiran
Dumke Room, Alumni House
4:05p - 4:45p
Natural Expressivity and the Philosophy of Dance: Self-reflective communication
Alex Mendez
Dumke Room, Alumni House
Break: 5:00p - 5:30p
Second Keynote Address
5:30p - 6:30p
The Focused Dancer and the Attentional Focus Effect
Barbara Montero
Dumke Room, Alumni House