Cynthia Novack in Memoriam Lecture: Choreographing the Headwrap—The Body as Archive

Wednesday, October 29, 2025 at 1:00pm
Bessie Schönberg Dance Studio, 247 Pine Street, Middletown, Connecticut

Free and open to the public

In honor of their first performance at Wesleyan in 2018, Movement of the People Dance Company’s Tyrone Bevans, Brittany Grier, and Assistant Professor of the Practice in Dance and African American Studies Joya Powell share an afternoon in embodied movement discussions of their repertory work Hair Ties. Participants will learn how MOPDC developed choreographic motifs through the art of storytelling, create their own movement phrases, and explore a short excerpt of the work.

Bring your own headwrap or scarf. There will be some available.

 

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Fall Faculty Concert: Movement of the People Dance Company
Friday, November 21 and Saturday November 22 at 7pm
CFA Theater
$8 general public; $6 senior citizens, Wesleyan students/faculty/staff/alumni, non-Wesleyan students, youth under 18

Movement of the People Dance Company will perform excerpts from their repertoire works for <--> from (2025), a newly imagined conversation with their piece (For) Those We Left Behind (2010), Aconteceu (2012), and their latest works-in-progress A Re-Remembering Project.

Photo by Alyssa Rapp