Liz Lerman Dance Exchange
Programs at the HHC
In Ferocious Beauty: Genome, renowned choreographer
and MacArthur "genius" grant recipient Liz Lerman combines body
movement, music, video, and spoken word to explore the modern world of
science and its far-reaching impact on society. On February 26, The Liz
Lerman Dance Exchange will perform this signature work at the IU
Auditorium, and the company will be in Bloomington for a full range of
programs February 17-27, including several at the Hutton Honors College.
Read on for
details of the Lerman programs planned at the HHC.
In conjunction with this series and in recognition of
the Charles Darwin bicentennial and the 150th anniversary of the
publication of The Origin of the Species,
the Darwin prints of renowned artist and IU Distinguished
Professor
Emeritus Rudy Pozzatti will be
on display in the Hutton Honors College Great Room.
What are the implications of genetic research? Is genetic engineering
ethical? Lerman and her dance troupe provide a multi-faceted view
of the consequences of our new scientific knowledge in this series of
events.
Panel Discussion:
Perfection and Imperfection in the Age of the Genome
Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2009 * 10
a.m.
to noon * HHC Great Room (811 E. Seventh St.)
Free and Open to
the Public
What ethical, philosophical, and scientific implications arise from our
increasing knowledge and control of biotechnology and the genome? With
what effect on our views of human perfection, aging, and dying? Who are
we? Who do we want to be? For a discussion of different views of
perfection and related questions, join Liz Lerman, choreographer
and
director of the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange; dancer Ben Wegman;
choreographer and dancer Martha Wittman; and IU faculty members
Karen
Hanson (Philosophy of Aesthetics), Lisa Sideris (Religious
Studies),
Sarah Phillips (Anthropology - Disability Studies), Phil
Stafford
(Director of the Center on Aging and Community and the Institute of
Disability and Community), Matthew Hahn (Biology), Susan
Seizer
(Communication and Culture), and Elisabeth Lloyd (History and
Philosophy
of Science). Vice Provost Tom Gieryn (Sociology) will moderate.
Proposed: A National Arts
Corps
An Informal Conversation with Liz Lerman and Others
Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2009 *
4-5:30 p.m.
* New HHC Building (811 E. Seventh St.)
Free and Open to the
Public
An informal meeting and conversation about the idea of a national
arts
corps: Join Liz Lerman, choreographer and director of the Liz
Lerman
Dance Exchange, and others for an informal discussion of the role of the
arts in public service and the idea of an arts corps. What do the arts
have to offer and how might we create a model for a national corps?
Lerman has received many honors and awards, including the MacArthur
"genius" grant. Click
here for more information about Lerman. The Hutton Honors
College and the Wells Scholars Program are among this event's
co-sponors.
Dance, Darwin, and the
Genome
Interactive Supper with the Liz
Lerman Dance
Exchange
Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2009 *
6:30-8 p.m. * New HHC Building (811 E. Seventh St.) * SIGN-UP
REQUIRED
Does dance matter? Does dance help us understand the world differently?
Who gets to dance? This event is an occasion for people who have never
danced before as well as for those who love to dance.
The Liz Lerman Dance Exchange describes itself as "a professional
company of dance artists that creates, performs, teaches, and engages
people in making art." It is known for its extraordinary,
groundbreaking, and breath-taking performances and for the remarkable
things it does to engage people of all ages, capacities, and
circumstances in the experience of dance and other arts, as well as in
discussion of science, ethics, and a whole host of global challenges.
At this informal event, you will have a chance to talk with Liz Lerman
and members of the company about their innovative work, which tackles
topics big and small from the universe of the cells inside us to what it
will take to sustain our planet and our culture, from Darwin's ideas on
symmetry to the courage of the "upstander." And, if you wish, you can
dance, too. The supper is co-sponsored by the Wells Scholars Program.
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