Connection, isolation, and female empowerment are not often explored nor analyzed together, yet often coexist harmoniously. Through processes of improvisation and dance making informed by feminist perspectives, the research investigated the intersections of empowerment, voice, knowledge construction and embodiment. It focused on women's ways of understanding their embodiment, the relationship between choice-making and meaning-making, processes of reflecting upon lived experiences, and exploring how experiences are expressed through the body and body attitudes. The research study explored and analyzed not only my own meaning making about connection, isolation, and female empowerment, but also the perspectives of fourteen young women between the ages of seventeen and twenty-three. Using the themes of connection, isolation, and female empowerment as fuel for creative expression and movement development, my dancers and I collaborated on making an evening length work that reflected our findings based on connection, isolation, and female empowerment and as well as embodied values.
The ASU School of Dance presents Undergraduate Projects Showing, October 25-26, with works by undergraduate dance students, performed at Margaret Gisolo Dance Studio.
The ASU School of Dance presents The Dance Annual, March 2-4, with works by dance faculty, alumni, graduate, undergraduate, and visiting artists, performed at the Galvin Playhouse Theatre.
The ASU School of Dance presents Fabrications, January 27-28, with works by undergrad students, performed in PEBW 139 and 140.
The ASU School of Dance presents Schreibstuck, April 1-3, a score by Thomas Lehmen, performed at the Phoenix Little Theater as part of the PHX Fringe 2011.
The ASU School of Dance presents The Dance Annual, April 15-17, with works by dance faculty, alumni, graduate, undergraduate, and visiting artists, performed at Margaret Gisolo Dance Studio.
The ASU School of Dance presents Undergraduate Concert, April 14, with works by dance undergrad students, performed at the Dance Studio Theatre, PEBE 132.
The ASU School of Dance presents Transition Projects, February 19-21, with works by dance faculty and undergrad students, performed at Dance Studio Theatre, PEBE 132.
The ASU School of Dance presents Grad Project Presentations, April 7-8, with works by dance graduate students, performed at Dance Studio Theatre, PEBE 132.