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Department of Dance Student Undergraduate Research Fellows (SURF) Kasey Eckhardt, Paloma Kong-Ndoumbe, Elise Leonard, and Brooke Allison Parkinson collaborate with faculty mentor Maria Gillespie to present an informal showing of their choreographic research. Music performance by Paul Westfahl.

They will share their dance in which autoethnography, movement, and language reveal how embodiment is an unfixed, evolving terrain offering a kinesthetic map that coexists with language. As a queer performance practice, the work plays with the constraints of language as a limb to create portals into each other’s dancing stories, and relate to each other as their dancing archives undergo translation and transfiguration.