The Dance Center presents
Experiencing Time / Embodying Rhythm
Fall 2024 Symposium
Thursday and Friday, September 19 and 20, 2024
Showcase Performances
Friday, September 20 at 1:00 p.m.
Friday, September 20 at 7:30 p.m.
Tickets
General Public: Symposium Pass ($40), Showcase Ticket ($15), Session Ticket ($10); free to Columbia College Chicago students.
Co-Curators:
Lisa Gonzales
Darrell Jones
Join practitioners, scholars, educators, students, and enthusiasts for cyphers, movement sessions, panels, paper presentations, workshops, and more during the Experiencing Time/Embodying Rhythm Symposium taking place in person September 19-20, 2024 at the Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago.
There is no denying the presence of rhythm in our everyday. Rhythmic patterns and cadences in movement, music, and language spawn multiple forms and genres and as many ways to perceive them. How it looks isn’t the full story. Rhythmic ingenuity through devising, combining shared space and time, and making connections across different ways of being in the body, are distinctive attributes of the dance curriculum at Columbia College Chicago. The 2024 Symposium raises the question of how do bodies, spaces, places, identities, relationships, and power constructs support rhythm? What corporal geographies subvert it? What will multiple vantage points reveal about this phenomenon that saturates everything and everyone? From the individual to the community, from the simple to the complex, rhythm is the thread.
Thursday, September 19
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Embodied Research: "Finding Your Rhythm: Navigating Life's Transitions Through Dance" by Courtney "Deadshot" King, "A Break in the Pulse: Lindy Hop Revival and Lindy Hop Community" by Mallory Peterson, and "Ethnographic Study of Krump in South Africa" by Kiana Cook
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Participatory Lecture/Demonstration: "American Rhythmic Traditions: Continuity, Connection and Community" by Shireen Dickson
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Time for a snack and dance break ! "Living 4 Today" isn't a show, it's a function, an immersive experience in House, Jazz, and Afro-Latin music and movement designed by Jeremiah Green and Taraja Mumbeja to bring the Symposium community together to experience what brought them together as dancers.
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Lecture/Demonstration and Workshop: "#NeuroArt - This Is Your Brain on Rhythm" by Kiran James braided with Camila Rivero Pooley's "SUÉLTATE, Volume 1" (an introduction to "la olla,” vibrant circle or cypher found in Latin American social gatherings). Live musical collaboration by Joyce Lindsey.
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Interdisciplinary Lecture/Demonstration: "'Fossil(s)core': Exploring Layered Time Imprints Through Choreographic Creation"by Sarah Marks Mininsohn & Silvia Garzarella paired with "in rhythm, in community - out of time : a workshop/guided study" by Kaleena Miller
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Presentation + Embodied Research: "Hyper-rhythms: Hyperobjects, Ecological Rhythms, and Dance without Nature" by Brendan P. Behan and "Rhythm Exchange" by Wyatt Sutter & Charles Pierson
Friday, September 20
CADENCE Matinee Performance Showcase – 1:00 p.m
Ellas Y Yo Mexicanas: Frida by Silvita Diaz Brown/Sildance AcroDanza, Lady Sol & the Kuumba Felines, an Afro-Caribbean Street Dance Experience by Leyda “Lady Sol” Garcia, Let Me Know When You Get Home by Joey Martinez (‘24), Pan Con Timba by Jimmy Payne, Jr., and Vantage Point by Nautica Turner-Briscoe (‘24).
FLOW Evening Performance Showcase – 7:30 p.m.
How I Found My Feet Again: an experimental excerpt by Keyierra Collins, ,,,lonely (2-1)… by Thomas F. DeFrantz, Rhythmic Compass by Sirr Tmo and The Coalition Score by commissioned research partners Lisa Gonzales, Darrell Jones, Peter Carpenter, Paige Cunningham Caldarella, Dardi McGinley-Gallivan, Raquel Monroe, Onye Ozuzu, and Kelsa Rieger-Haywood with live accompaniment by Farai Malianga.
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Banner image above: pictured left to right: Emma Close, Amanda Canino, Reece Marcus, Daniela Aranda from Time Keeps Moving by Kayla Hansen, photo by Julie Lucas, for the Dance Center of Columbia College, Chicago.
