Kathryn Wasserman Davis Collaborative in Conflict Transformation

Speaker: Joshua Kalla, Yale University

Join dance artist jumatatu m. poe for a casual conversation about art making and life over lunch. Lunch provided, but please click on the related url to register! Registration needed by March 15th. Open to Middlebury students, faculty, and staff.

What is your first impulse? Can you trust it? What happens when the judge falls asleep? Can sight be a handicap? Can you know too much? This is a workshop about Dancing and Speaking and Improvisation and Composition. In this workshop we will use several improvisation strategies to open a free flow of immediate, spontaneous writing, speaking and dancing. We will employ different approaches of partnering, releasing, scores, texting, authentic movement and automatic writing to generate material.

Translating Lost and Found: In 2016 Ishmael Houston-Jones, along with the choreographer Miguel Gutierrez and the composer Nick Hallett, created the New York Dance and Performance “Bessie Award” winning piece Variations On Themes from Lost and Found: Scenes from a Life and Other Works by John Bernd. John Bernd was an experimental choreographer/composer/visual artist active in the downtown New York performance scene of the 1980s who died in 1988 at age 35 from AIDS complications.

jumatatu m. poe will present “transitions into terrestrial,” sharing images, video, poetics, and movement reflecting on transitions in artmaking and life. Having completed a 10 plus year cycle of research and performance with collaborator Jermone Donte Beacham through the J-Sette focused Let ‘im Move You series, jumatatu is reflecting on the vastness of the voyage, the depth of the lessons on both being, and being with, that sprang forth from that intimately collaborative series of processes.

Join legendary dance artist Ishmael Houston-Jones for a casual conversation about art making and life over lunch. Open to Middlebury students, faculty and staff. Please register in advance.

jumatatu m. poe will present “The Switching”: I like to imagine that this practice in performance improvisation, The Switching, is a strategy in immediate evolution, rapid-fire shifting, sublime learning of and in the moment.

Peter Dixon ’02 is lead research scientist for Everyday Peace Indicators and researcher at Brandeis’ Program in Conflict Resolution and Coexistence. In this talk, he will explain how studying the everyday experiences of people affected by violence inform transformative solutions toward peace and justice. Dixon has worked for the United Nations, the International Criminal Court, and has a PhD in Sociology from UC Berkeley.

Offered in-person and virtually. Please click here to join virtually.