Cara Hagan

The Duke Dance Program MFA in Dance: Embodied Interdisciplinary Praxis (MFAEIP) presented a six-week movement and creative practice intensive designed to support the artistic evolution of Duke graduate dance students and alumni. Participating artists received dedicated time, space and mentorship from a range of interdisciplinary guest artists.

Participants engaged in movement classes, workshops on creative strategies and critical response to works in progress, and built their existing networks through collaboration with the artists and faculty of partnering organization, the American Dance Festival (ADF).

Workshop: Hagan will lead participants through a series of experiences that invite them to think about their relationships to the digital spaces we've all come to know so well, questions of what human residue remains in digital platforms, and how our histories - both screen and live histories - inform our experiences as consumers and makers.

Cara Hagan is a mover, maker, writer, curator, champion of just communities and a dreamer. In her work, no object or outcome is sacred—but the ritual to get there is. Hagan’s adventures take place as live performance, on screen, as installation, on the page and in collaboration with others in a multitude of contexts. Hagan has brought her interdisciplinary work to the Performática Festival (Mexico), the Conference on Geopoetics (Scotland), the Loikka Dance Film Festival (Finland), the Taos Poetry Festival (New Mexico) and the Dance on Camera Festival (New York). Recent residencies include the National Center for Choreography at the University of Akron, and Elsewhere Museum in Greensboro, NC, where her interdisciplinary project Essential Parts: A Guide to Moving through Crisis and Unbridled Joy is installed until summer 2022. Hagan is editor and contributor for the anthology Practicing Yoga as Resistance: Voices of Color in Search of Freedom and author of the book, Screendance from Film to Festival: Celebration and Curatorial Practice.