Making Sense of Each Other:
A two-day symposium addressing issues of embodied perception, physical diversity and performance raised in The Way You Look (at me) Tonight

Conceived and curated by Jess Curtis/Gravity
Hosted by Gibney Dance in partnership with Movement Research

Saturday January 20, 12:00pm – 3:00pm
Making Sense of Each Other—Embodied Practices
Movement Research Avenue C Studio, 55 Avenue C at 4th Street

Saturday January 20, 6:00pm – 10:00pm
Sunday January 21, 10:00am – 5:00pm
Gibney Dance, Studio H, 280 Broadway (Entrance at 53A Chambers Street)

Free / Registration Required

How do we look at each other? How do we allow ourselves to be seen? How do our bodies shape the ways we perceive the world around us? Can we change how we see each other?

Choreographers Jess Curtis and Claire Cunningham convene a two-day symposium addressing issues of embodied perception, physical diversity and performance raised in their work The Way You Look (at me) Tonight. Featuring philosopher Alva Noë, dramaturge Luke Pell, scholars Julia Watts Belser, Simi Linton, and Krista Miranda, disabled artists and scholars Alice Sheppard, Bill Shannon, Jerron Herman, Sunaura Taylor and Marissa Perel.

ACCESS INFORMATION

All events are held in ADA accessible spaces. For more detailed access information please visit: www.jesscurtisgravity.org/symposium

Gibney Dance is an accessible entrance venue. Wheelchair ramps and elevators are available via the 280 Broadway entrance. All restrooms are wheelchair accessible. Studios and rooms are lit by fluorescent lights.

Avenue C is an accessible space. There is a wheelchair ramp at the entrance to the building. Please use the buzzer located on the right hand side of the door. The accessible restroom is located in the lobby, outside of the studio.

If you require reasonable accommodation, please email info@jesscurtisgravity.org or call 415-483-5996 (voice only). ASL interpretation provided upon request, please email info@jesscurtisgravity.org at least one week prior to the event.

SCHEDULE

SATURDAY JANUARY 20

12:00pm – 3:00pm
Making Sense of Each Other—Embodied Practices at Movement Research’s Avenue C Studio with Jess Curtis and Claire Cunningham

5:30pm – 6:00pm
Registration opens at Gibney

6:00pm – 6:30pm
Stroll and Talk 1: Keynote and Welcome from Claire and Jess

6:30pm – 8:00pm
Panel: Acknowledging Lineages—(and not) Legacies for Disabled Artists: A panel moderated by Claire and Krista Miranda, with Alice Sheppard, Jerron Herman, Bill Shannon and Marissa Perel (with Luke Pell Scribing/Visualizing)

8:00pm – 9:00pm
Stroll and Talk 2: Alva Noë and Julia Watts Belser open a moving public conversation

9:00pm – 9:45pm
Hangout (No Host Bar)

SUNDAY JANUARY 21

10:30am -11:00am
Bagels and Coffee

11:00am – 12:30pm
Queer Animacy: Julia Watts Belser leads a conversation with Claire Cunningham, Sunaura Taylor, Alice Sheppard, Simi Linton and others with Luke Pell scribing/visualizing

12:30pm – 12:45pm
Stroll and Talk 3: Participants TBA

12:45pm – 2:15pm
Lunch

2:15pm – 3:45pm
Phenomenologies and Politics of Access and Perception:
Jess Curtis facilitates a conversation with Alva Noë, Sunaura Taylor, Bill Shannon and others with Luke Pell scribing/visualizing

3:45pm – 4:00pm
Break

4:00pm – 5:00pm
Stroll and Talk 4: An Improvisational Performance Wrap Up

Photo by Sven A. Hagolani.