EYE ON DANCE: The Art of Identity Politics

“Sorry I Missed Your Show” presents

EYE ON DANCE
The Art of Identity Politics: EMBRACING RACIAL AND CULTURAL IDENTITIES IN THE ARTS
Featuring EOD Video Guests: Marlies Yearby and Laurie Carlos
Thursday, Dec. 15 from 6pm – 7:00pm FREE
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Date:
Thursday, Dec. 15, 2016 at 6:00pm FREE
Location
Gibney Dance Center (280 Broadway) Enter 53A Chambers

EOD:
TV Episode #315 (recorded in 1991)
Topic:
Seeking African-American Values by Embracing Racial and Cultural Identities
Moderator:
Celia Ipiotis
EOD Episode 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 Conversation Moderated by Celia Ipiotis

Panelists:
Mariles Yearby
Cynthia Oliver, choreographer and Graduate Program Director, University of Illinois