At Dance Education Canada we are passionate about promoting lifelong learning and professional development for dance educators. This involves picking up a good dance book and diving into the history, technique and processes of that particular virtuoso in dance. Dance Education Canada has taken the reigns and started the only dance related book club in Canada. In our inaugural year, we dive into our first book on Merce Cunningham: After the Arbitrary. We are beyond honoured to have the author here with us today. Noland’s research will allow us to plunge deep into to Cunningham’s work and see sides of his processes that might not have been so well known. It is an honour and a pleasure to have the author of Merce Cunningham: After the Arbitrary with us today, Professor Carrie Noland.
GUEST: Carrie Noland is currently Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine, and Director of the International Center for Writing and Translation. Noland is no stranger to the dance world having been a Martha Graham student for 10 years. Noland studies the interplay between technology and artistic creation from a variety of angles, moving from performance poetry to dance, from subjectivation to racialization. She is the recipient of many fellowships from foundations and societies some of which include the National Endowment of the Humanities, the American Philosophical Society and the American Council of Learned Societies.
WEBSITE: https://www.faculty.uci.edu/profile.cfm?faculty_id=2770
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