Dance Program

Chris Jordan, Opening Keynote Presentation - Encountering Midway: The Roles of Grief, Hope, and Love in Healing Our World

7:30am-6:30pm

Parlors open, coffee and tea available

7:30am-5:00pm

Conference Registration & Exhibit Area

8:10-9:10am

Yoga, Meditation or Chanting - Nina Be

9:30-11:00

Workshop - Ava LaVonne Vinesett:Embodied Offerings 

Workshop - Faye Stanley: The Power and the Glory: Improvisation in Education and Beyond

Workshop - E. E. Balcos: Moving Mantras/Kinesthetic Prayers: Transforming the Individual with Meditative Intention and Kinesthetic Manifestation

Workshop - Rinah Rachel Galper:Inviting The Sacred Feminine: Shifting the Paradigm

Panel: Mind-body-spirit Healing

Chair: Larry Burk

9:30

Keval Kaur Khalsa:Kundalini Yoga & Meditation -- Technology for the Times

9:51

Carolyn Keeler: The Therapeutic Art of Dance: Healing, Spirit, Connection

10:11

Julynn Wilderson: I Feel Your Pain: Thoughts on the Need to Open the Body to Empathy, Sympathy, and Personability

10:31-11:00

Questions

11:20-12:50

Dance Workshop with - Ronald K. Brown: Ancestors, Inspiration and Faith

Workshop -
Vera Lucia Moura: 
Transformative Healing, Experiences with Jaguar Medicine

Workshop - Amy Calhoun: Family Constellations: Experiencing Our Interconnection and Allowing Transformation

Workshop - T. Lang: Creating the Mother of all Muthas: An Inside Look to a Blueprint for Interdisciplinary Dance Work

Film Screening and Discussion – Purnima Shah: Dancing with the Goddess

12:50-1:50pm

Buffet Lunch for all conference particip

2:00-3:30

           Keynote Panel: Chris Jordan, Lily Yeh and Ronald K. Brown - Arts and Activism

3:50-5:20

Workshop - Larry Burk: Let Magic Happen: Environmental Precognitive Dreaming and Intuitive Problem Solving

Workshop – Ciane Fernandes: Somatic-Performative Research: Creativity, Spatial In-pulse, and Integration

Workshop - Claudia Horwitz:Transformative Space: How We Engage the Intersectional Relationship of Land, Community, Spirit, and Justice to Embody Liberation

Workshop - Nina Be and Jeffifer Shoemaker: :Mind-Body Centering Yoga Therapeutics: Living Globally Through Positive, Proactive, Possibility

Workshop - Bruno Botelho Costa: Building from your surroundings: ideas within Paulo Freire and 1960`s educational movements in Brazil

 Social Hour - East Duke Building Parlors (first floor)

Porangui McGrew -

World Music & Dance Celebration

7:30am-6:30pm

Parlors open, coffee and tea available

7:30am-5:00pm

Conference Registration & Exhibit Area

8:10 – 9:10am

Yoga, Meditation or Chanting - Christopher Rowland

9:30 -11:00

Workshop - Tracy Penfield (with live music accompaniment by Beverly Botsford): Tracing Our Embodied Energies

Workshop - Lily Yeh: Listening, Expressing, and Creating Together

Workshop - Thomas DeFrantz: Our Digital Trace: Imagining the Future We

Workshop - Miriam Brodersen :Compassion is a verb: Practices to open the heart to a painful world

Panel Discussion –Undocumented Borderlands and Endangered Species

Barbara Dickinson, Chair

9:30

Brittany Chavez: The Mariposa’s Way: Queering the Geopolitics of Borders in Performance

10:00

Pinar Yoldas: The Very Loud Chamber Orchestra of Endangered Species

10:30 – 11:00

Questions

11:20-12:50

Workshop – Keval Kaur Khalsa:Becoming Spiritual Warriors -- Kundalini Yoga & Meditation Workshop with guest musician, Christopher Rowland

Workshop - Donna Dragon: Collectively Moving toward Environmental Transformation: Bridging Diversity through Embodied Practices

Workshop - Janice Geller:The Interconnection Between our Bodies and the Environment

Workshop – Jennifer Lee: Our Communities, Ourselves: Exploring Wholeness through Authentic Movement

Panel: Art as a Means of Personal and Social Transformation

Purnima Shah, Chair

11:20

Selene Vega: Bringing Transformation Home

11:41

Kelly Klein: Ecological Consciousness through Embodied Participation: The Dance Exchange’s Moving Field Guides and Palissimo’s Bastard

12:01

Julio Mota: The power of art in activating social transformation

12:21-12:50

Questions

2:00-3:30

Workshop - Rogerio Adolfo de Moura: The Teacher and the Youngster: Biographic Fragments disperse in a globosphere of fight and hope

Workshop - Jessi Knight Walker and Christina Knight: New Epistemologies: Bridging the Mythic, the Personal, and the Academic

Workshop - Selene Vega: Becoming Agents of Transformation: From Deep Connection to Reaching Out

Workshop - Laurina Uribe and Maya McNeilly: Mythic, Mindful, Indigenous Healing of the Self and the Environment

Panel: Place, Memory, and Healing

Christine Erlien: Chair

2:00

Erin Parish: 
Reclaiming Community After Conflict: Reparation and Reconstruction in San Carlos, Colombia

2:21

Pavithra Vasudevan: Healing through Remembering: Environmental Injustice and Place-making in Warren County, North Carolina

2:41

Jessica Almy Pagán: Ethno-mathematics and the Estuary

3:00-3:30

Questions

3:50-5:20

Workshop - Poranguí Carvalho McGrew: Dance. Sing. Play:: Exploring the space between the notes

Workshop – Chris Jordan: Hang Out with Chris Jordan

Workshop - Julio Mota: Yesbody: a technique for Physical Theatre

Workshop - Meg Perry and Kate Speer: Surroundings: body-Earth awareness as a tool for connecting and orienting ourselves and our work

Panel: Social Transformation: The Legacy of Pauli Murray

3:50

Barbara Lau: Pauli Murray and Her Vision for Social Healing

4:11

Courtney Reid-Eaton:Transformational Focus in the Work of Brett Cook Through the Face Up Project in Durham, North Carolina

4:31

Jeanette Stokes: Transformational Spaces: Where Social Memory Can Begin to Address Social Injustice.

4:51-5:20

Questions

Ronald K. Brown/Evidence Dance Company Performance.

Post-performance reception

8:10-9:10am

Yoga, Meditation or Chanting - Jeffifer Shoemaker

9:30-11:00

Art workshop - Ilene Sperling, Kristin Linton, Hillary Rubesin: Burma Art Therapy Project

Sunday 11:30-1:00

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