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 School of Dance LIVE!, September 7-9, with works by dance faculty, performed at Galvin Playhouse.
The ASU School of Dance presents Undergraduate Projects Showing, April 11-12, with works by dance undergraduate students, performed at Margaret Gisolo Dance Studio, PEBE 132.
The ASU School of Dance presents Graduate Projects Showing, April 4-5, with works by dance graduate students, performed at Margaret Gisolo Dance Studio, PEBE 132.
The ASU School of Dance presents Graduate Projects Showing, October 20-21, with works by dance graduate students, performed at Margaret Dance Studio, PEBE 132.
The ASU School of Dance presents Undergraduate Concert, April 14, with works by dance undergrad students, performed at the Dance Studio Theatre, PEBE 132.