TIMESCALES

The 2-day Symposium welcomes dance educators, enthusiasts, practitioners, scholars, and students to explore together what multiple vantage points reveal about rhythm, a phenomenon that saturates everything and everyone.

Session 4 features:

Interdisciplinary Lecture/Demonstration: "'Fossil(s)core': Exploring Layered Time Imprints Through Choreographic Creation"by Sarah Marks Mininsohn & Silvia Garzarella paired with "in rhythm, in community - out of time : a workshop/guided study" by Kaleena Miller.

Sarah Marks Mininsohn is an American choreographer and scholar. Her research explores Jewish migrations in Italy and dynamics of Jewish ghetto spaces. She received a Fulbright to pursue artistic research in Italy in 2022, and she is currently pursuing an Interdisciplinary PhD in Theatre and Drama with certificates in Critical Dance Studies and Jewish Studies at Northwestern University. She holds an MFA in Dance from the University of Illinois and a BA in Dance and Sociology from Wesleyan University.

Silvia Garzarella is a PhD student in Visual, Performing, and Media Arts at the University of Bologna. Her research interests revolve around strategic ways to disclose dance heritage to a widespread audience, with particular attention to the use of advanced digital techniques. In 2021, she published the monograph "Valeria Magli o la poesia ballerina" (Mimesis), the result of a research project on female authorship in the Italian choreographic landscape.

Kaleena Miller makes sound-focused dance and performance work. Named one of DANCE Magazine’s 25 to Watch, she has received a McKnight Fellowship for Dance and a Sage Award. Her work has been presented at the Walker Art Center, The Southern Theater, American Swedish Institute, Icehouse, First Avenue, and Jazz Central in Minneapolis, and at Arts on Site, Center for Performance Research and Symphony Space in New York. Kaleena has performed in works by Joe Chvala, Michelle Dorrance, Derick Grant, Lisa La Touche, Michael J. Love, Sandy Silva, Jumaane Taylor and Laurie Van Wieren. She has a BFA in Dance from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, a Deep Listening certification from the Center for Deep Listening at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and is currently pursuing an MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is a member of HeardTheory Collective, a group of interdisciplinary tap dance artists and scholars.

Presented by the Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago the Experiencing Time/Embodying Rhythm Symposium is made possible in part by Alphawood Foundation, Chicago Arts Recovery Program grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events, Illinois Arts Council, and the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation.

The Symposium is organized by Lisa Gonzales, Darrell Jones, Roell Schmidt, and Meredith Sutton.

Host or Publisher The Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago