TALK, PERFORMANCE & WORKSHOP:
Moments of Meeting: Choreographic “Moments” in Response to the Holocaust
Carol M. Press (Theater & Dance, UCSB)
Tuesday, May 13 / 5:00 PM
HSSB Ballet Studio
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This event will explore the multileveled subjective relationship between embodiment and theory, intersecting dance, creativity, writing, artistic collaboration, and developmental psychology. Emphasizing language as metaphor, Carol Press discusses embodied connections between psychologist Daniel Stern’s work on “moments of meeting” and our basic human strivings for aesthetic experience. Basing her theoretical presentation on her article, “Restoration of Hope: The Creation of a Dance,” she specifically addresses her creative challenges when collaborating with psychologist and Holocaust survivor Anna Ornstein. Press choreographed her solo Splinter of Hope in response to Ornstein’s riveting book My Mother’s Eyes: Holocaust Memories of a Young Girl. Following Press’s discussion, Sarah Pon of Santa Barbara Dance Theater will dance Splinter of Hope. Finally, Press will facilitate a workshop for participants, exploring the embodiment of theory through simple, subjective and significant aesthetic moments of meeting. Leslie Hogan of the UCSB College of Creative Studies composed the original score for Splinter of Hope, which will be performed by cellist Virginia Kron. Lighting design is by Vickie Scott of the Department of Theater and Dance. Carol Press is the author of The Dancing Self: Creativity, Modern Dance, Self Psychology and Transformative Education.
Sponsored by the IHC’s Performance Studies RFG and the Department of Theater and Dance.
