Join PPP's Fridays@2 speaker series for a conversation with Ph.D. candidates and performance scholars Yunina C. Barbour-Payne and Shannon Woods.
The Performance as Public Practice Fridays@2 speaker series facilitates discussions about the creation and study of performance. PPP welcomes artists from within and beyond the Winship Drama Building, including current students, distinguished alumni and arts leaders from across the country, to share their research and methodology. Up next is a conversation with Ph.D. candidates and performance scholars Yunina C. Barbour-Payne and Shannon Woods.
About Yunina C. Barbour-Payne
Yunina C. Barbour-Payne's dissertation, "Redbones, Blackbones and Other Bones to Pick, Formation of Affrilachian Aesthetics," examines a vast range of cultural productions created by Black women. Comprising three case studies of Black women performance artists with origins in Appalachia, she situated the work from this region within Black feminist, Black literary and Black performance cannons. Barbour-Payne explores connections between environmental, racial and gender justice advocacy in the works of Affrilachian artists Martha Redbone, Lyn Ford and Nerissa Milton Long. Her project incorporates performance as research as an Affrilachian theatre maker working with diverse populations outside the region.
About Shannon Woods
Shannon Woods is a dance artist and fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in Theatre with a specialization in performance as public practice. She received her M.A. in Performance Studies from New York University in 2019. Woods' dissertation research examines the intersection of choreography, public safety and the police state. She is interested in investigating "performances of protection" and their relationship to national identity and panic, as well as the ways in which the body can rehearse for crisis and perpetuate threat.
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November 17, 2023 at 2:00 p.m.
WIN 2.112
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