with Ann Cooper Albright
Tuesday, March 30th, 2021
2:00PM-3:00PM
All are welcome to these free discussions, but please register to attend>
In this short presentation, I trouble some of the cultural assumptions and social dynamics that the pandemic has brought about in order to reimagine community as an ecosystem that does not separate self-care from tending to others. Lively conversation to follow.
Bio: A dancer and a scholar and a 2019-20 Guggenheim Fellow, Ann Cooper Albright is Professor and Chair of the Department of Dance at Oberlin College. Combining her interests in dancing and cultural theory, Ann Cooper Albright teaches a variety of courses that seek to engage students in both practices and theories of the body. Her latest book, How to Land: finding ground in an unstable world, offers ways of thinking about and dealing with the uncertainty of our contemporary lives. Her other books include Engaging Bodies: The Politics and Poetics of Corporeality (2013); Modern Gestures: Abraham Walkowitz Draws Isadora Duncan Dancing (2010); Traces of Light: Absence and Presence in the Work of Loïe Fuller(2007); Choreographing Difference: the Body and Identity in Contemporary Dance (1997). She is co-editor of Moving History/Dancing Cultures (2001) and of Taken by Surprise: Improvisation in Dance and Mind (2003). Albright is the founder and director of Girls in Motion, an award-winning afterschool program in the Oberlin City Schools. She is also a veteran practitioner of Contact Improvisation and has taught workshops throughout the U.S. and abroad. The book, Encounters with Contact Improvisation (2010), is the product of one of her adventures in writing and dancing, and dancing and writing with others.
