Lectures, Italy, Siena, 26 February 2013
Choreographer, dancer, professor of Performing Arts and Director of the Dance Program at Swarthmore College (Pennsylvania), Sharon Friedler will discuss her work, that utilizes arts and dance as a vehicle for social change and a way of communicating and engaging individuals and communities. Part of her talk will also focus on the work of Teya Sepinuck, founder and director of Theater of Witness, a form of theater that gives voice to those who have been marginalized, forgotten or are invisible in society, creating and producing projects with prisoners and their families, survivors and perpetrators of abuse, refugees, immigrants, elders and those who have lived through war.
Professor Friedler has been choreographing for over 25 years for both professional and college dancers. She was one of the first choreographers in the country to work with and introduce into a college curriculum a program for choreographic notation on the computer (now known as Life Forms and Dance Forms). At Swarthmore she teaches courses in the history and theory of dance, dance composition, arts and social change, in modern dance technique, and co-directs the College dance and drum ensemble for which she teaches traditional dances from Ghana. Professor Friedler is also involved in the College's study abroad initiatives in Ghana, Italy, Northern Ireland, and Poland. In each of these countries her interest is in helping students engage both with local traditional and contemporary dances as well as finding placements for students that employ the arts as a social change agent.
Professor Friedler is also the co-editor of the book Dancing Female: Lives and Issues of Women in Contemporary Dance (1997). She received her B.A. from Colby College and her M.F. A. from Southern Methodist University. Previously she taught at the Universities of Missouri and Minnesota.
Professor Friedler has been choreographing for over 25 years for both professional and college dancers. She was one of the first choreographers in the country to work with and introduce into a college curriculum a program for choreographic notation on the computer (now known as Life Forms and Dance Forms). At Swarthmore she teaches courses in the history and theory of dance, dance composition, arts and social change, in modern dance technique, and co-directs the College dance and drum ensemble for which she teaches traditional dances from Ghana. Professor Friedler is also involved in the College's study abroad initiatives in Ghana, Italy, Northern Ireland, and Poland. In each of these countries her interest is in helping students engage both with local traditional and contemporary dances as well as finding placements for students that employ the arts as a social change agent.
Professor Friedler is also the co-editor of the book Dancing Female: Lives and Issues of Women in Contemporary Dance (1997). She received her B.A. from Colby College and her M.F. A. from Southern Methodist University. Previously she taught at the Universities of Missouri and Minnesota.
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