Facilitating Collaboration Through Movement and Mark-Making

Session Type: Demonstration/Performance

Abstract

Building on previous collaborative performance/workshops, beginning at AERA2018, three artist/educators present their developing methodology for collaborative meaning making through movement and mark-making. A dancer, a drawer, and a comics maker interact with each other’s marks and movements improvised in real time. After a set of introductory drawing and movement exercises, participants will be invited to translate this methodology into a means of examining a real life issue in their work or personal life that relates to the common good. They will form groups to create their own movement and marks performance to address common interests and concerns. The session will culminate with a discussion on how this methodology might be applied and adapted to particular contexts.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Arts and Inquiry in the Visual and Performing Arts in Education

Chair

• Nick Sousanis, San Francisco State University

Director

• Marta Cabral, The City University of New York

Papers

• Drawing Gesture - Andrea Kantrowitz, SUNY - College at New Paltz

• Mark-Making and Movement: A Complex Matrix of Creative Impulses - Kathryn Ricketts, University of Regina

• Choreographing Thought in Comics - Nick Sousanis, San Francisco State University