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SUMMARY:Thinking Spaces: Rashida K. Braggs\, "Black Women Who Move Jazz Methodologies"
DESCRIPTION:Thinking Spaces\, the Improvisation Reading Group and Speaker Series\, considers the ways in which improvisation can provide us with new ways of thinking and acting. The group is open to all—community members\, faculty\, and students—and presents several in-person and online events per semester. \nOur next session\, “Black Women Who Move Jazz Methodologies”\, is presented by scholar Dr. Rashida K. Braggs. The talk takes place Monday\, March 6 from 1-2:30 pm in-person at MacKinnon 103\, University of Guelph\, and online via Zoom. Sign up through our registration form to attend in-person or online. A Zoom link will be sent to participants email address the day before the event. \nMore About this Talk:\nHow do you make a book move? Move to depart and return to the diverse homes of Black African diasporic women… move in the word-sound-mood tones of the jazz they perform… move readers to resonate and sense their experiences beyond static pages of academic prose. \nIn this presentation\, Rashida K. Braggs discusses her methodological moves that mix dance ethnography\, songwriting\, and playwriting in her book-performance in progress on the migrations of black women jazz performers to Paris\, France. Braggs guides us through an early chapter where she weaves her material and embodied research on the Malagasy-Senegalese singer MFA Kera and Beninese singer Angelique Kidjo as they first migrate to Paris in 1969 and 1983 respectively.  \nMore About the Speaker:\nRashida K. Braggs is Associate Professor in Africana Studies and a faculty affiliate in Comparative Literature at Williams College. Her book Jazz Diasporas: Race\, Music and Migration in Post-World War II Paris investigates the migratory experiences of African American jazz musicians in 1946-1963 Paris. In her current manuscript and accompanying performance project “Move Jazz\, Black Woman Move\,” she explores how and why black women jazz performers of African descent migrate to and from Paris from 1969-2019. \nRashida K. Braggs is also a scholar-performer who acts\, dances\, sings\, composes music and performs spoken word. Trained in Performance Studies\, Communications\, Theater Studies\, and English\, she consistently weaves performance through her pedagogy and scholarship. Jacob’s Pillow\, the Williams College Museum of Art\, the Tapir gallery and the United Solo Theatre Festival have featured her performances. 
URL:https://improvisationinstitute.ca/event/thinking-spaces-rashida-k-braggs/
LOCATION:University of Guelph\, MacKinnon Building\, 87 Trent Ln\, Guelph\, Ontario\, N1G 1Y4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:IICSI events,Thinking Spaces
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SUMMARY:Thinking Spaces: Rebecca Barnstaple\, "Fidelity for the Irreplicable: Improvisation in Dance and Health Research"
DESCRIPTION:Our next Thinking Spaces session\, “Fidelity for the Irreplicable: Improvisation in Dance and Health Research” is presented by Rebecca Barnstaple\, and takes place Wednesday\, March 15 at 2pm ET. The talk includes a movement demonstration and takes place in-person in our brand new ImprovLab. \nRegister through our google form to attend! \nMore about the talk:\nImprovisation is a core element of some interventions in the emerging fields of dance for health and dance therapy\, which have shown potential to slow progress or diminish symptoms of neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson’s and Alheimer’s. IMPROVment® is a dance-based improvisational movement practice for brain-body health developed at Wake Forest University. It has been used in several research studies\, including a recently completed RCT (2017 – 2020) and a just-launched 5-year RCT investigating dose and frequency effects of dance interventions for adults with subjective memory loss. This talk explores how tools related to improvisation can be adapted to a research-ready scientific protocol while preserving their integrity and magic – includes a demonstration. \nMore about the speaker:\nRebecca Barnstaple is the Manager of Community Programs and Engagement at Chigamik Community Health Centre in Midland\, Ontario\, a tri-cultural agency offering a range of services from Traditional Healing and social prescribing to mental health and primary care. Rebecca recently completed a PhD and Postdoctoral Fellowship at York University investigating the neurobiological effects of dance in health and disease and is adjunct faculty in the dance department. A graduate of the National Centre for Dance Therapy at Les Grands Ballets Canadiens in Montreal (NCDT 2015)\, she offers dance-therapy based programs for people with Parkinson’s\, Alzheimer’s\, and Chronic Pain\, and provides education and training in dance therapy and dance interventions for the NCDT\, Dance for Health Nova Scotia\, and IMPROVment (Wake Forest University\, North Carolina). \nRebecca co-chairs the Certification and Accreditation committee of the Dance Movement Therapy Association of Canada (DMTAC) and serves on the Research and Practice committee of the American Dance Therapy Association (ADTA)\, the Research Group of the NCDT\, and the Dance for Health committee of the International Association of Dance Medicine Science (IADMS). 
URL:https://improvisationinstitute.ca/event/thinking-spaces-rebecca-barnstaple-fidelity-for-the-irreplicable-improvisation-in-dance-and-health-research/
LOCATION:ImprovLab\, MacKinnon Room 108\, 87 Trent Lane\, University of Guelph\, Guelph\, Ontario\, N1G 1Y4\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Thinking Spaces: Marsha Hinds Myrie\, "Improvisation\, Plantation Societies and Difficult Conversations"
DESCRIPTION:Thinking Spaces\, “Improvisation\, Plantation Societies and Difficult Conversations” is presented by Marsha Hinds Myrie\, and takes place Wednesday\, March 29 at 2pm ET. The talk includes a presentation followed by a guided Q&A and conversation period.  \nMarsha will present a brief overview of literature about the plantation society and the presentation of social injustice as a remnant of plantation and post coloniality.  She will be joined virtually by Barbadian film producer\, Russell Watson\, to discuss the question of using art as an advocacy tool. The presentation will conclude with a closer analysis of the activist theatre run by the National Organization of Women for its successes and possibilities.  \nThis talk takes place in-person in MacKinnon room 103\, University of Guelph. Registration is required to attend. Sign up now! \nMore about the talk:\nThe stated purpose of the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation is “…to create positive social change through the confluence of improvisational arts\, innovative scholarship\, and collaborative action.” The purpose of this talk is to invite partnership and mutual sharing in Critical Studies in Improvisation to imagine uses and expansion in plantation societies.  Using art to confront complicated social issues is a long accepted and well received practice in plantation societies. Drumming\, calypso\, reggae music and parodies have been used by populations where other forms of expression such as newspapers and even social media are heavily policed to control dissent or calls for justice.  \nIn 2018\, just before the global COVID pandemic the National Organization of Women of Barbados reactivated the connection between women’s social justice organizing and art – specifically theatre.  The practice of using theatre to focus and engage women themselves and the general public has been in vogue since the 1970s when the Women’s collective\, Sistren was formed in Jamaica.  By putting Critical Studies in Improvisation in conversation with the Caribbean women’s organizing strategies I hope to encourage both groups to continue to think about the importance of their work specifically for modern day plantation societies.    \nMore about the speaker:\nMarsha Hinds Myrie’s life and work are an embodiment of dualities and intersections. She is a Barbadian/Canadian citizen with an ancestral\, cultural and intellectual home in Africa. Her career unfolds\, sometimes spectacularly and sometimes confusingly at the intersections of activism and education with research being a forced endeavour to maintain the grace of the academy. \nHinds Myrie is President’s Gender Equity Committee postdoctoral fellow with a focus on women’s leadership at the University of Guelph and the immediate past president of the National Organization of Women of Barbados. She spent 22 years developing an advocacy model to address the issues of underprivileged groups of women in Barbados and the Commonwealth Caribbean. The major focus of the work is to develop and encourage the use of victim defined services for women and girls affected by various types of gender-based violence while at the same time removing the burden of eradicating violence from women and victims by forcing a stronger lobby in policy spaces. \nThe philosophical mooring for Marsha’s interaction with equity work come partly out of her PhD research which focused on the ways in which political and cultural experiences shaped the development and creation of intellectual spaces and intellectual thought in Commonwealth Caribbean tertiary institutions. The epistemological valleys that create disciplines in the Western academy are still immensely uncomfortable for Hinds Myrie but if forced she would classify her work as womanism\, Black Studies\, philosophy as praxis and intellectual history. \nMarsha is mother to four biological children\, godmother to one amazing godbaby and aunty to scores others.
URL:https://improvisationinstitute.ca/event/thinking-spaces-marsha-hinds-improvisation-plantation-societies-and-difficult-conversations/
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