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: Vangeline will explore trauma-informed practices focusing on the parasympathetic nervous system and Noguchi Taiso.
Vangeline is a teacher, dancer and choreographer specializing in Japanese butoh. She is the artistic director of the Vangeline Theater/New York Butoh Institute, an all-female dance company firmly rooted in the tradition of Japanese butoh while carrying it into the twenty-first century. Tying together butoh and activism, Vangeline founded both the New York Butoh Institute Festival and the festival Queer Butoh. Her award-winning program The Dream a Dream Project has brought butoh dance to incarcerated men and women across New York State for fifteen years. Her choreographed work has been performed internationally and her work as an educator, choreographer and curator has been supported by The National Endowment for the Arts, Japan Foundation and Asian American Arts Alliance, among others. Widely regarded as an expert in her field, Vangeline has taught at Cornell, NYU, Brooklyn College, CUNY, Sarah Lawrence and Princeton. She is the author of Butoh: Cradling Empty Space, which explores the intersection of butoh and neuroscience.