Victoria Marks: Choreographing conversation
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English - September 28, 2020 16:00 - 33 minutes - 23 MBVisual Arts Arts Performing Arts art architecture design film theater dance performance visual arts ucla los angeles Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Conversations feel especially fraught in this time of political and social division. Choreographer, filmmaker, scholar, and activist Victoria Marks has made a career of orchestrating dances for people one normally wouldn’t see on stage – mothers and daughters, elderly men, combat veterans – for what she calls “action conversations.”
In this episode, Marks, the associate dean of academic affairs for the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture and a professor of choreography in the Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance, reflects on the importance of leading by listening; the ‘10 Questions’ event series she co-curates with an arts-led multi-disciplinary approach to exploring essential questions; and how she is making dance in a time of physical distancing.