Come join us for a public lecture event with Dr. Emily Wilcox (University of Michigan) as she discusses her book, Revolutionary Bodies, on the history of Chinese dance.
Dr. Wilcox is Associate Professor of Modern Chinese Studies in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Michigan, USA. She is a specialist in Asian performance, with a focus on dance in the People's Republic of China.
Her book analyzes major dance works by Chinese choreographers staged over an eighty-year period from 1935 to 2015, examining connections between socialist thought, cultural institutions, and transnational exchange as they relate to dance creation, education, and theory. Using previously unexamined film footage, photographic documentation, performance programs, and other historical and contemporary sources, Wilcox challenges the commonly accepted view that Soviet-inspired revolutionary ballets are the primary legacy of the socialist era in China’s dance field and instead presents the contemporary practice of Chinese dance as the era's major creative project.
Texas artist Virginia Grise will also be a special guest and discussant. She is a recipient of the Whiting Writers' Award, Princess Grace Award in Theatre Directing and the Yale Drama Series Award. Her published work includes Your Healing is Killing Me (Plays Inverse Press), blu (Yale University Press), The Panza Monologues co-written with Irma Mayorga (University of Texas Press), and an edited volume of Zapatista communiqués titled Conversations with Don Durito (Autonomedia Press).
Chinese food/snacks will be provided.
WHEN: (Lunar New Years’ Eve) January 24th, 12:00-2:00PM
WHERE: Honors Commons (2nd floor of M.D.Anderson Library)
Please contact Dr. Melody Li for more information and to RSVP: mli40@Central.UH.EDU
Sponsorship for the event provided by Media and the Moving Image, the UH Center for Public History, Modern and Classical Languages, and the Dance Program at UH.
