
| Session 22 | Workshop |
| Della Davidson and Shelly Gilbride | |
| Writing Body Stories: Creating Fierce/Pink/House | |
We will be conducting a Lecture-Demonstration/Workshop on the ongoing, collaborative creation of Fierce/Pink/House, a multi-media, dance-theatre exploration of women's body stories. We will give a 30-45 minute introduction to the workshop activities that are creating the piece. We plan to show a short video clip of the work-in-progress and then spend 45 minutes conducting a workshop in which participants will begin the process of writing body stories, creating images and exploring what it means to be a body in process. The workshop will mirror the workshops that are being conducted in the creation of Fierce/Pink/House, and could serve as source material or inspiration for the performance in the winter of 2009 at the University of California at Davis. This lecture/demo/workshop is a collaboration between a dance practitioner and a dance scholar, so within the structure of the session, we will be exploring the relationship between practice and scholarship through the overarching theme of feminism in dance. |
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| Della Davidson is a Professor at UC Davis in the Department of Theater and Dance as well as Artistic Director of Sideshow Physical Theater, the resident professional company of the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts. Sideshow is devoted to the development of new, interdisciplinary performance work. Previously Davidson was the Artistic Director of the Della Davidson Dance Theater for over 20 years, and is the creator of some 40 choreographic and theatrical works. | |
| Shelly Gilbride is a PhD candidate in Performance Studies at UC Davis completing her dissertation on the legacy of Merce Cunningham. In addition to performing in many regional theatre and summer stock productions, she has worked in the Development departments of various arts organizations including the Painted Bride Arts Center in Philadelphia and American Dance Festival and HERE Arts Center in New York City. |
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