Disaster and the Body
In the past year, Florida and its neighbors in the Gulf Coast and the Caribbean have weathered hurricanes, earthquakes, and ice storms, all amidst a global pandemic.
Artists have helped disaster-impacted communities come to terms with how to move forward, rebuild and prepare for the next crisis. Choreographer Michelle Gibson (New Orleans/ Dallas) and members of the Y no había luz theatre collective Yari Helfeld and Julio Morales (San Juan) met on April 19 from 7:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. EST to investigate how artists’ tenacity reshape disastrous realities into an artistic opportunity for healing, rebirth and joy.
This was the culminating event in a year-long series of engagements with these artists to explore questions of disaster and the body, curated by Colleen Rua, Assistant Professor of Theatre Studies, and Rachel Carrico, Assistant Professor of Dance Studies.
This event is part of an interdisciplinary project made up by Colleen Rua and Rachel Carrico (School of Theater + Dance), Alana Jackson (Center for Arts in Medicine) and Antonio Sajid López Méndez (Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies). It is funded by the Center for the Arts, Migration and Entrepreneurship (CAME).
The recording of the event can be viewed here.
Dirceu Marroquim and Antônio Braga on campus
We had two Brazilian guest speakers in our “Brazil Beyond the Beaches” tourism class this Spring semester. Dr. Antônio Braga (Universidade Estadual Paulista) lectured on the importance and complexity of religious tourism in Brazil, and Prof. Dirceu Marroquim (Universidade de São Paulo) taught students about historical tourism in Recife, Brazil, and the importance of developing new technological tools to engage tourists.
