From New York City - Lecture by MJ Thompson
hosts a chapter of the University of Calgary's Performance Studies Speaker Series. Former Calgary dance journalist, now assistant professor at Marymount Manhattan College in New York, MJ Thompson asks: Why watch dance at this moment when the war beams violence to our living rooms and America continues to market failure through the shrewdest brand of terror? This talk considers how performance has shaped daily life and political debate in the United States in the recent past, and how contemporary choreographers in particular have argued this point through the use of everyday movement.
The Centre for Research in the Fine Arts, Faculty of Kinesiology, The
Department of Drama, English and Music, The Calgary Institute for the Humanities,
The Program of Dance
