Moving Identities, Michael C. Carlos Museum
Creative movement explorations are designed as tools to interpret and relate to museum artifacts. Summer camps and school tours can be designed for any age. We interpret museum objects from different collections – ceremonial (Dogon mask from Mali); narrative (Balakrishna from India); transformative (shamanic – whale shark, deer, jaguar – throughout the Americas) to then explore a variety of ways their own identity is shaped by culture. We activate the body. We embody form. We feel the dynamics that emerge in our movement. We make distinctive choices in space. We share compositions so that we can talk about cultural identities from the body’s perspective.