Elizabeth Streb is an internationally acclaimed contemporary movement artist, based in Brooklyn, New York. Her work is concerned with physical action that defies conventional notions of the body’s capabilities, requiring performers who are extremely flexible, strong, and daring. She makes pieces that challenge the normal definition of dance, utilizing a …
Bio from MOMIX program, April 4–5, 2003, Zellerbach Hall Alan Boeding (sculpture design) a native of Chamberlain, SD, received his BFA in sculpture from the University of South Dakota in 1980 and his MFA from Indiana University in 1983. Boeding began dancing with the Windfall Modern Dance Company in 1981. …
From the time that Descartes famously declared “I think, therefore I am,” Western cultures have tended to regard the body as separate from the mind. This separation has led to the development of an industrial model of the human being that treats the body as a machine and positions the mind …
Contemporary choreographer Jawole Willa Jo Zollar continues the theme of dancemakers who use their art to express their American identities and as a means of communicating about social and political issues. Zollar choreographed her dances titled Walking with Pearl to honor the artistic legacy of Pearl Primus and to show how that …
