The Centre for the Humanities (CfH) and the Theatre Studies Programme of Utrecht University, in collaboration with Springdance festival, proudly present Susan L. Foster as CfH Festival Creative Fellow for the academic year 2010-2011. Choreographer, dancer and writer Susan L. Foster is Professor in Choreography, History and Theories of the Body in the Department of World Arts & Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles.
The Festival Creative Fellowship is connected to a series of Springdance/Theatre Studies/CfH activities, performances and workshops that explore issues at the intersection of contemporary dance practice and current theoretical developments. The workshops bring together researchers, practitioners, students and others interested, to stimulate the discourse around dance, performance, bodies and space. The sessions attempt to trace the roots of specific aspects of contemporary dance practice and provide a contextualisation of this aspect within cultural history and interdisciplinary theory.
This year’s Festival Creative Fellowship Programme will look at the development of dance over the past decades from the perspective of delocalisation, delocation and nomadism, taking as its starting point Foster’s observations on what she has termed the hired body.
Salons and other events with Susan Foster
Preceding the Springdance 2011 festival there will be a series of three Salons on 'Hired Bodies & Dancing Nomads' with Susan L. Foster. The Salons will take place on 20 January, 17 February and 24 March 2011. Susan Foster will also be present during a series of events (lectures, discussions, seminars) that will take place during SPRINGDANCE 2011 (14-24 April) in Utrecht.
More information on the Festival Creative Fellow Programme: see www.springdance.nl.