About this Event
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 5 features:
Presentation + Embodied Research: "Hyper-rhythms: Hyperobjects, Ecological Rhythms, and Dance without Nature" by Brendan P. Behan and "Rhythm Exchange" by Wyatt Sutter & Charles Pierson.
Brendan P. Behan is a choreographer, dancer, and historian who holds an MFA in Dance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Mr. Behan's current archival research looks at underground dance cultures, grassroots social movements, and urban spatialities in Iran, Palestine, and Yemen. As a choreographer, Mr. Behan has been presenting his choreographic and movement research in cities across the United States and Colombia since 2008. For over a decade, Brendan has been teaching dance technique and history in both university and community settings, including at Millikin University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Brendan currently leads the dance program at the Robert Crown Community Center in Evanston, Illinois.
Wyatt Sutter and Charles Pierson, both graduates of Columbia College Chicago, have been working together since September 2023, exploring the cultural and physical relationships of House and Vogue aesthetics and social practices. Being practitioners and participants in social dance styles in Chicago and beyond (Wyatt with foundations in House aesthetics and Charles with foundations in Vogue aesthetics), they aspire to deepen the understanding of their individual social movement aesthetics and find intersectionality between them. In their collaborative work, they aim to transcend social constructs of separation through social dance and the combination of multiple styles and perspectives. By creating spaces where multiple practices of freedom can co-exist and inform one another, they hope to empower people to find their own embodied resistance, and to challenge others to think critically of what “Radical Freedom” looks like both in dance and within their lives.
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.
Pictured left to right: Emma Close, Amanda Canino, Reece Marcus, Daniela Aranda from Time Keeps Moving by Kayla Hansen, photo by Julie Lucas, for the Dance Center of Columbia College, Chicago.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago, 1306 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, United States
USD 0.00 to USD 10.00
