Radical Research Panel – June 24, 2023

FREE

Luna invests in dance research as a way to advance our field. We also investigate what dance research can be, who shares it, who has access to it, and how it can be presented. Our Radical Research panel seeks to amplify the reflective rigor and depth of discourse of BIPOC dance researchers, whose perspectives are often overlooked. Come hear how four dance artist scholars are actively shaping the field of research.

Accessibility: ASL interpretation, audio description, captioning and transcription services will be provided.

We encourage you to register by 9am Pacific June 24th to ensure you receive the  Zoom details in a timely manner.

Saturday, June 24
5pm Pacific
via Zoom
Free

Questions or trouble registering/connecting? Email Elise at elogan@lunadanceinstitute.org

Zooming in from a different time zone? This event takes place at

2pm June 24 in Hawaii

7pm June 24 in Minnesota

8pm June 24 in New York

12am June 25 in Senegal

1am June 25 in London

8am June 25 in Taipei

10 am June 25 in Australia

Quantity

If this is your first time registering for a workshop this year, please include a mandatory annual $30 PL User Fee. OPTIONAL for Practitioner Exchanges, Launch, and free panels & events.

Description

Panelists

Crystal U. Davis

Crystal’s Research:

Crystal U. Davis’ research focuses on the operative mechanisms of implicit bias in Dance and how it pertains to matters of diversity and inclusion in the field. Their central research question addresses how dancers are socialized to see and understand the world and on how that perception affects the ways in which they interpret the physical movement or behaviors of others, the execution of dance performance, and the ability to assess styles of dance or aesthetic choices of dancers that do not align with the viewer’s sensibilities. The foundations and products of their embodied research can be found in the series of conference presentations, invited lectures, and professional development workshops created as well as peer-reviewed articles, chapter contributions to anthologies, and their first book, Dance and Belonging: Implicit Bias and Inclusion in Dance Education. 

Crystal’s Bio

John-Mario Arcilla Sevilla

John-Mario's Research:

I have been a haumana hula (student of hula) for the last 20 years. Before hula, I was a Philippine folkloric and modern dancer. My life-long dance experience has evoked an ongoing personal investigation regarding this recurring question, Where do I belong? As a child of Filipino settlers in Hawaiʻi, my sense of place and community has always been refracted and unsettled by ongoing political, economic and cultural tensions among my own family history of migration from one American colony to another; the indigenous Native Hawaiian community; and the American-allied forces that overthrew the Hawaiian nation and has since dominated Hawai’i as a territory and now a state. This fraught question of belonging has followed me to California, as I seek to embody my Filipino settler legacy and to imagine a better future. My body has become a laboratory where contrasting philosophies and narratives among indigenous, folkloric, colonized and contemporary dance practices can collide, collude, converge and contrast.  John-Mario’s Bio

Pei-Ling Kao

Pei-Ling’s Research:

We Dance Who We Are

This paper examines my dance training history through the lens of white wash, integration vs. neutralization, dueling consciousness, and decolonization that reflect the journey in making and performing Cover Your Mouth When You Smile. I have been in the dance field for over 30 years, learning different styles of dance in both Taiwan and the U.S. to help intellectually and physically adapt myself to changes in the contemporary dance world. My dance training in conservatories in Taiwan during the ’70s and ’80s, and at the liberal art dance program in the U.S. between 2008 and 2010 reflected political, societal, racial, and cultural issues that were dealt with on two sides of the Pacific. These issues interweave and reinforce the embedded message in the making and dancing in Cover Your Mouth When You Smile.

 Pei-Ling’s Bio

Rosy Simas

Rosy's Research:

In my own desire to decolonize my physical practice, I shed much of what I knew and began to connect deeply with my ancestors, to land, family, and community. In doing so, I built a physical and intellectual approach to dancing, creating, teaching, researching, and negotiating. In working with dancers and students in movement classes or rehearsals, I ask that they attend to the integration between their senses, physical experience, and nature, through a practice of deep listening. Whether creating a new work with seasoned artists or teaching nondancers, I work with people to move improvisation from deeply sourced generated movement unique to who they are. As sensation occurs from their movement, when sensory receptors detect sensory stimuli, I ask them to look at the ways that perception can organize, interpret, and interpolate conscious experience from their sensations.

Rosy’s Bio