This event has been postponed to next Spring 2025

Thinking through/with Latin American Dancers and Choreographers explores the inextricable relationship and productive connections between critical theory and dance practice, critical interpretation and dance production, academic writing and understanding and embodied knowledge through the collaboration between dancers, choreographers, and scholars in Mexico, Brazil, and the USA.

PROGRAM

• A Composition for Chantal: Embodiment and Temporality in Contemporary Dance
  • Performer and Speaker: Monica Fagundes Dantas (UFRGS, Brazil)
  • Respondent: Mlondi Zondi (USC)
• Bracha
  • Choreography: Cinthia Renee Portes (Mexico)
  • Performer: Eduardo Severino (Brazil)
• Dietrich, Cavani, and Holbein in Bracha
  • Speaker: Julien Gutierrez-Albilla (USC)
• Roundtable
  • Moderator: Benjamin Mayer Foulkes (17, Institute of Critical Studies, Mexico

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Sponsors: USC Dornsife Divisional for the Humanities, USC Dornsife College Dean of Graduate and Professional Education, Center for Latinx and Latin American Studies, Levan Institute for the Humanities, Visual Studies Research Institute, German Studies Program, Experimental Humanities Lab, Center for Feminist Research, Francophone Research and Resource Center, and the Departments of Comparative Literature, French and Italian, and Latin American and Iberian Cultures