“Sorry I Missed Your Show” presents
EYE ON DANCE
The Arts of Identity Politics: EMBRACING RACIAL AND CULTURAL IDENTIES IN THE ARTS
Featuring EOD Video Guests: Marlies Yearby and Laurie Carlos
Thursday, Dec. 15 from 6pm – 7:30pm FREE
*Space is limited. Please RSVP here
Date: Thursday, Dec. 15, 2016 at 6:00pm FREE
Location: Gibney Dance Center (280 Broadway) Enter 53A Chambers
Post Screening Dialogue with Yearby and Cynthia Oliver moderated by Celia Ipiotis
EOD TV Episode #315 (recorded in 1991)
Topic: Seeking African-AmericaValues:Embracing Racial and Cultural Identities
Moderator and Curator: Celia Ipiotis
Video Guests: MARLIES YEARBY, choreographer of Rent
Laurie Carlos, performance artist, writer, director
Talk:
How artists maintain and develop a racial identity in the face of institutionalized racism and integrate voice, drumming, and movement in African art versus the separation of similar elements in Eurocentric art.
Dance Excerpts:
Urban Bush Women’s “Praise House” (from a film by Julie Dash), Jawole Willa Jo Zollar’s “Monkey Dances,” and Yearby’s “Pushing Through a Tight Place.”
Post Video Screening Dialogue Moderated by Celia Ipiotis
Panelists:
Mariles Yearby
Cynthia Oliver, choreographer and Graduate Program Director, University of Illinois