[Reader-list] Lecture by Susan Leigh Foster

[rohitrellan at aol.in]

Date: February 25th
Time: 4 - 6 PM
Venue: Gati Studio, S-17 Khirki Extension, Opposite Select Citywalk, New Delhi - 110017
Entry free / by registration

Choreographer, dancer, writer, Susan Foster will present a lecture to talk about the demands of the global stage and how they are being met by dance training regimens that produce perfectly efficient workers for that stage. Here, three three types of dance training are considered : ballet, industry, and release techniques to show how they are modifying and transforming the world’s dances for global circulation. Connections are made between the values produced in these three forms of dance training to those of neo-liberal, global capitalism. Alternative kinds of training practices that are actively resistant to this homogenization and spectacularization of dance are also discussed in this respect.

Susan Leigh Foster, choreographer and scholar, is Distinguished Professor in the Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance at UCLA. She is the author of Reading Dancing: Bodies and Subjects in Contemporary American Dance, Choreography and Narrative: Ballet’s Staging of Story and Desire, Dances that Describe Themselves: The Improvised Choreography of Richard Bull, and Choreographing Empathy: Kinesthesia in Performance. She is also the editor of three anthologies: Choreographing History, Corporealities, and Worlding Dance. Three of her danced lectures can be found at the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage website http://danceworkbook.pcah.us/susan-foster/index.html.

To register, call +919971406113 or email gati.sandip at gmail.com