The MFA year two cohort invites you to join a brainstorming conversation focused on the art of generating meaningful audience feedback on work in progress within and beyond the academy walls. Fresh from their collective production of WATCH THIS! (February 25th at the Glorya Kaufman Dance Theater), choreographers Heather Coker, Sarah Leddy, Herbbie Moore, and Sarah Wilbur will co-facilitate a discussion entertaining useful and not-so-useful strategies for generating viewer or reader critical response to new works, on the stage or on the page.
COLLECTIVE BIOGRAPHY: Heather Coker is a choreographer and filmmaker who fuses both art forms to make dance films and live work that integrates technology. Sarah Leddy creates and performs dance theater work within a variety of settings, fusing her interests in post-modern dance, ensemble-based theater and community engagement. Herbbie Moore is a choreographer with investments in post-modern hip hop experimentation. Sarah Wilbur is a choreographer and director of The Wide Sky Dance Project, a progressive arts initiative supporting choreographic research and experimentation aimed at widespread participation in contemporary dance.
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Monday, February 21, 2011
2.22 - Michael Sakamoto: A Case Study in Auto-Ethnography and Practice-Based Research
Michael Sakamoto
Kazuo Stands: A Case Study in Auto-Ethnography and Practice-Based Research
Feb 22, 2011
12pm Kaufman room 160
This presentation will display and critique the author's transdisciplinary methodology of butoh dance theater practice and scholarship, exploring the mechanics of and socio-cultural influences on the scholar-artist entity. As a modality of historical, cultural, political, and aesthetic contextualization for his performances, the process of practice-based research-- or rather research-based practice-- is central to his "dual" identity. The author will perform and engage his "scholar" and "artist" identities as a false binary in a dialectic process of auto-ethnographic revelation, placing his artistic and intellectual influences in tension with his psycho-physiological desires and instinctual, improvisational dancing body.
Michael Sakamoto is an interdisciplinary artist active in Butoh-based dance, contemporary theater, media art, and photography. He has performed and/or exhibited in Japan, Thailand, Mexico, and throughout Europe and North America and received numerous grant awards, including from the Japan Foundation, Meet the Composer, and Asian Cultural Council. Michael has taught college/university-level classes and workshops, including at California Institute of the Arts, Chiang Mai University, and many others. He is on faculty in the MFA-Interdisciplinary Arts program at Goddard College, holds a Dance MFA from UCLA, and is a PhD student in Culture and Performance at UCLA.
Website:www.michaelsakamoto.
Kazuo Stands: A Case Study in Auto-Ethnography and Practice-Based Research
Feb 22, 2011
12pm Kaufman room 160
This presentation will display and critique the author's transdisciplinary methodology of butoh dance theater practice and scholarship, exploring the mechanics of and socio-cultural influences on the scholar-artist entity. As a modality of historical, cultural, political, and aesthetic contextualization for his performances, the process of practice-based research-- or rather research-based practice-- is central to his "dual" identity. The author will perform and engage his "scholar" and "artist" identities as a false binary in a dialectic process of auto-ethnographic revelation, placing his artistic and intellectual influences in tension with his psycho-physiological desires and instinctual, improvisational dancing body.
Michael Sakamoto is an interdisciplinary artist active in Butoh-based dance, contemporary theater, media art, and photography. He has performed and/or exhibited in Japan, Thailand, Mexico, and throughout Europe and North America and received numerous grant awards, including from the Japan Foundation, Meet the Composer, and Asian Cultural Council. Michael has taught college/university-level classes and workshops, including at California Institute of the Arts, Chiang Mai University, and many others. He is on faculty in the MFA-Interdisciplinary Arts program at Goddard College, holds a Dance MFA from UCLA, and is a PhD student in Culture and Performance at UCLA.
Website:www.michaelsakamoto.
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Winter Quarter Line-up Announced!
2.08.11 - Angeline Shaka : Putting on the "hula girl"
2.22.11 - Michael Sakamoto : Kazuo Stands - A Case Study in Auto-Ethnogoraphy and Practice-Based Research
3.01.11 - WAC MFA 2 : Food For Thought - Methods for garnering feedback on works-in-process
3.08.11 - Samuel M. Anderson : Rough Cuts - Video and Spectacle in Postwar Sierra Leone
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