“Dance as a Practice” explores the core reasons why we dance: to express, to play, and explore ways to heal.
We’ll begin with somatic movement practices from the Filipino and eastern traditions and move into contemporary explorations using improvisations. We finish with a channeling of community through a collective dance making.
This event is presented by the FYP Cultural Ambassadors and Anito Gavino of Animalaya.
Bio:
Anito Gavino is a Filipinx multidisciplinary artist, movement scholar, and cultural worker from Panay Island, Philippines. Anito generates experiential embodied, digital, and written archives to mobilize community discourse, reflection, and social justice. Her scholarship focuses on the cross-pollinating intersections between Africanist dances, from Caribbean dances to the Philippines, using dance as a portal to discuss cultural and political histories.