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BRYN MAWR COLLEGE DANCE PROGRAM PRESENTS THE PORCH: A STUDIO DIALOGUE WITH NIA LOVE AND FRED MOTEN

love and Moten to engage in theoretical call and response as part of nia love: Centering Critical Blackness residency

The Bryn Mawr College Dance Program presents dancer and choreographer nia love and poet and critic Fred Moten in an embodied, textual, and theoretical dialogue at the intersections of their expansive work in abolition, fugitivity, and black radical traditions, hosted and curated by Assistant Professor in Dance Lela Aisha Jones.

Described as a “glitch in the matrix” by love, and in true “shoot the ish” form, these celebrated artists/scholars/critics/theorists will move through interdisciplinary call and response in dialogue and movement. Host and curator Jones notes, “This event aims to transport us to a time when folks still sit on multimodal porches to bask in the awe of collective brilliance that emerges from dismantling formalities and engaging in blackness uncaptured.”

The Porch is part of the nia love: Centering Critical Blackness residency in the Bryn Mawr College Dance Program which received major support from the 360° Program and is in collaboration with the Performing Arts Series and the Mary Flexner Lectureship, which presented Moten in a lecture on Wednesday, October 28 and will present rescheduled lectures on Wednesdays, March 16 and 23.

Event Details:
The Porch: A Studio Dialogue with nia love and Fred Moten
NEW DATE – Thurs., Mar. 25, 2021, 6:00-7:45 p.m.
(Rescheduled from Thurs., Nov. 12, 2020, 6:30-8:30 p.m.)
Virtual via Zoom
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Free and open to the public. Reservations are required at https://brynmawr.wufoo.com/forms/the-porchstudio-dialogue-w-nia-love-fred-moten/. For more information, email reservations@brynmawr.edu or call 610-526-5300.

Learn more about nia love and Fred Moten and register for the Flexner Lectures.

Assistant Professor of Dance Lela Aisha Jones will host and moderate.

Learn more about Lela Aisha Jones.

Learn more about Fred Moten and the Mary Flexner Lectureship.

Learn more about the nia love: Centering Critical Blackness residency.

About the Dance Program:
The Dance Program offers a rich array of dance experiences for the many and diverse students who choose Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges. It welcomes the newcomer as well as supports the continuing progress of trained dancers. Learn more about the program.

The Dance Program at Bryn Mawr College is honored to welcome Nia Love, a choreographer, dancer, installation artist, activist, mother, grandmother, warrior and educator, for a commissioned, groundbreaking performance research residency titled Centering Critical Blackness. Love’s work expands and destabilizes conversations on intersectionality, transnationalism, Blackness, and tools of embodied memory at the crossings of text, music, film, theory, and movement practice. In two week-long sessions in November and February of the 2020-2021 academic year, Love will visit dance, education, and visual culture courses as well as activate performance research events for the campus community and the general public.

This residency is presented with major support from the 360° Program, in collaboration with the Mary Flexner Lectureship, and the Performing Arts Series. 

Curators:
Lela Aisha Jones, Assistant Professor of Dance
Sarah Bishop-Stone, Performance Arts Series Coordinator

Centering Critical Blackness (360° Course Cluster) Faculty Members:
Chanelle Wilson, Assistant Professor of Education
Lela Aisha Jones, Assistant Professor of Dance

Artist Website Presence:
https://www.nia-love.com/

The Dance Program offers a rich array of dance experiences for the many and diverse students who choose Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges. It welcomes the newcomer as well as supports the continuing progress of trained dancers. Learn more about the program.

360° is an interdisciplinary experience that creates an opportunity to participate in a cluster of multiple courses connecting students and faculty in a single semester (or in some cases across contiguous semesters) to focus on common problems, themes, and experiences for the purposes of research and scholarship. Learn more about the program.

Established in honor of Mary Flexner, a Bryn Mawr graduate of the class of 1895, the Mary Flexner Lectureship has brought some of the world’s best-known humanists to campus. The pioneering Egyptologist James H. Breasted gave the first series of Mary Flexner Lectures in 1928-29, followed in later years by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Arnold Toynbee, Isaiah Berlin, I.A. Richards, Erwin Panofsky, Frank Kermode, Natalie Zemon Davis, Anthony Appiah, Judith Butler, and Bonnie Honig, among others. Learn more about the program.

Since 1984 the Bryn Mawr College Performing Arts Series has presented great artists and performances to Philadelphia-area audiences, creating an environment in which the value of the arts is recognized and celebrated. Providing talks and workshops free to the public to develop arts awareness and literacy, the Bryn Mawr College Performing Arts Series has partnered in recent seasons with such organizations as the Barnes Foundation, Pennsylvania Ballet, Bryn Mawr Film Institute, and FringeArts. The Series has presented performances by such diverse luminaries as Trisha Brown Dance Company, Meredith Monk, John Waters, Jennifer Koh, the Khmer Arts Ensemble of Cambodia, and Urban Bush Women. Learn more about the program.