Stretches, Leaps, Turns: Experiments in Music-Dance Relationships
Study Group / Committee Session06:00 PM - 07:30 PM (America/Chicago) 2020/11/09 00:00:00 UTC - 2020/11/09 01:30:00 UTC
What makes a given encounter between sound and movement an "experiment"? What assumptions are challenged, what is put at risk, and what is "discovered" about the nature of music, of dance, and of their relationship? This session brings scholarly perspectives on the relationships between music and dance into dialogue with contemporary artistic practice, pedagogy, and historical experiments in combining music and movement. The 15-minute, individual papers may be viewed ahead of time. In order to focus our discussion, we will divide the session time as follows: 6:00-6:30 - Q&A/Discussion with Panel #1 Caitlin Schmid, St. Olaf College - Listening to Dance Music: Pedagogical Experiments in Choreomusicology Navid Bargrizan, Texas A&M University-Commerce - Corporeal Witchery and Criticism of the Contemporary Culture in Harry Partch's Postdramatic Dance-Satire The Bewitched Kate Galloway, Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute - Sound Doesn't Always Have to Be Heard: Productive Reuse and the Aurality of Movement in Nick Cave's Soundsuits 6:30-7:00 p.m. - Q&A/Discussion with Panel #2 Jay Arms, University of Pittsburgh - "Sound as a Physical Reality": Object and Gesture in Malcolm Goldstein's Improvisations Keir GoGwilt - Rhythm, Balance, and Affect: Working with Choreographer Bobbi Jene Smith 7:00-7:30 p.m. - Q&A/Discussion with Panel #3 Farrah O'Shea, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - "Material Realities: Dancing Decreation in La Passion de Simone" Wayne Heisler, The College of New Jersey - "Show me slowly what I only know the limits of": Music-Dance Relationships in Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal's Dance Me Sophie Benn, Case Western Reserve University - "…humble marionettes / The wires of which are pulled by fate…": Dance and Comedy in Le Piano irresistible
