School of Dance's Assistant Professor Kiri Avelar gave a special guest lecture to the Screendance I class encouraging students to reflect on how screendance functions as a vital space for both collective and individual identity expression.
Lecture Description: How does the medium of screendance facilitate artist-scholar inquiries, especially in cultivating “perspectives from the cracks” as nepantleras? This class will explore rasquache sensibilities and strategies, reflecting on how the inherently embodied practice of screendance functions as a vital space for both collective and individual identity expression, encourages curiosity in the archives, promotes the act of “reading against the grain,” and acts as a powerful form of counter-storytelling.