Join PMA for Eco-Macbeth: Nature Fights Back on Friday 8/29, from 1-2:30pm, in the Dance Theater, SB10: featuring Michael Samuel Kaplan – shared breath/air; on Thursday 9/11, from 12:20- 2:15pm, in the Dance Theater, SB10: featuring Ingrid Kapteyn – Sleep No More’s witches; and on Saturday 9/13, from 12-2pm, in the Black Box, SB21: featuring Dr. Marino, Tanmay Dhanania, AJ Sage – Embodying non/human Points of View.
This Practice-based-Research series will engage Shakespeare’s Macbeth through an ecological lens, bringing in renowned guest scholar-practitioners to guide work with Cornell students, seeking new ways to read & stage our shared role with nature in this era of ecological crises… Collaborators will convene to share work, methods, and ideas based on investigations of Macbeth's human/non-human players. This layered series will include workshops with:
Michael Samuel Kaplan (University of Connecticut, and former PMA professor) on shared breath/air
Ingrid Kapteyn (NYC-based dancer/educator) sharing her work from Sleep No More’s movement techniques
Tanmay Dhanania (International Artist) & Dr. Christopher Marino (UNC-Wilmington) on actor-embodiment of non/human characters, featuring House of Ithaqua artistic director AJ Sage.
These workshops are also intended as the seed-sowing for PMA professor Theo Black’s wider engagement with un/Natural readings of Macbeth in pedagogy, scholarship, and student-centered stagings of Shakespeare in ecologically-infused project-based work over the coming year.
Sponsored by the Central New York Humanities Corridor from an award by the Mellon Foundation & the Bean Fellowship.
