| 149 | Tuesday, April 12, 2005 |
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| 10:00 AM-11:30 AM | Convention Center:E352 |
| Research Consortium |
| Body Narratives: Interdisciplinary Ways of Knowing |
| Throughout the arts and humanities, scholars, educators and artists are examining narrative structures for the role they play in making meaning for our world and lives. These narrative structures are filled with the experience and history of individuals relating to their environment. Cultural systems, which shape group and individual identities, inform narrative structures. As a shared information network, culture facilitates adaptation to changing contexts. Narrative structures, therefore, are dynamic and function to strategically communicate socially constructed knowledge. This knowledge impacts social organization and the way people negotiate meaning to interact with one another. Of particular interest is the notion of community, which implies common activities and a sense of purpose that emerge from people whose lives are bound together in symbolic and concrete ways. Narrative structures strengthen communal relationships as well as promote shared understandings to form new communities of practice.
Historically, the narrative structure has contributed strong influencing patterns for the language of dance. These structures have held even more prominence in recent years as the topic of somatic and embodied learning has emerged as a source for interdisciplinary dialogue. The artistic, educational and scientific debates about common physical properties, such as time, weight, flow, and space have merged into questions about the knowing body. It is through the revelation of the existential whole and the internal/external work required for our new stories, that we can uncover and decode a new global language, one meant to challenge our notion of the educated self and determine directions for educational reform. |
Keyword(s): community-based programs, interdisciplinary, performance
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| Presider: Amy Yopp Sullivan, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY |
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Speakers: |
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Telling a Story of Contemporary Africa: Contemporary Concert Dance
Joan D. Frosch, University of Florida, Gainesville, Gainesville, FL |
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Healing Communities: Movement Narratives of Refugee Dance Cultures
Pegge Vissicaro, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ |
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The Body's Story: An Experiment Across the Disciplines
Amy Yopp Sullivan, Suny-Stony Brook, Medford, NY |
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