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Dish It Up | Moving Away to Move Closer

Event Type
Other
Sponsor
Women's Resources Center
Location
Women's Resources Center (616 E. Green St. Suite 202)
Date
Mar 9, 2020   12:00 - 1:00 pm  
Contact
Clare Conway
E-Mail
ceconway@illinois.edu
Phone
217-333-3137
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Originating Calendar
Women's Resources Center

How do we identify a space as ours? Can we, in moving together, affect the space we inhabit and make it ours?
Can our bodies be understood as space?
In this session, we will address these questions through a mixed practice. First, I will share the inquiries and experiences that are inspiring my work. We will then address how, through the arts, space and bodies become pliable and enable us to affect their shapes and textures. The session will end with a simple movement-based exploration of how we navigate personal and shared spaces, encounter each other, and determine the porosity of our boundaries. We will move closer, move away, stay still, move again, only to keep remembering that we always have the possibility of moving in our own terms.

Catalina is a Colombian-American artist, movement researcher, and educator, currently pursuing a Ph.D. in art education (University of Illinois). She is also an ongoing practitioner of contemporary dance/improvisation. Catalina studies the intersection of sharing movement, critical and feminist pedagogies, and contemporary art practices, as an articulation that provokes encounters. Her work examines and instigates modes of perception, relation, organization, and orientations, which challenge hegemonic practices and discourses that fix others’ bodies. Catalina teaches university introductory courses to art at the School of Art and Design-University of Illinois, and interdisciplinary movement-art workshops with different audiences. She also occasionally participates as a
dancer and collaborator in dance pieces choreographed by colleagues and friends. She holds also holds an EdM
in Aesthetic Education and a BA in Sociology and Political Science.

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