Nashman Center Affiliate Faculty member Anna Kimmel (Corcoran School of Art and Design) invites us all to attend this performance. If community engaged scholarship from the dance department piqued your interest, then you need to be here!
this place, could be
April 18-20, 2024
Betts Auditorium
Co-choreographed by Anna Jayne Kimmel and Leo Hylton, music by Heather Stebbins
Presented as part of the Spring Dance Concert, with support from Corcoran School of the Arts & Design program in Theatre and Dance.
From Kimmel:
I write to share performance details of this place, could be, a work I've been building with Leo Hylton (bio below) alongside 10 undergraduate students, featuring a sound score by GW Music Faculty Heather Stebbins. This short work (about 20 min) will open alongside several student works and a repertoire piece by the esteemed Bill T. Jones on April 18-20 2024 in Betts Auditorium.
Leo Hylton is a PhD student at George Mason University, currently incarcerated in Maine State Prison. His education and work are based in trauma-informed, healing-centered Restorative Justice practices, with a vision toward an abolitionist future. To that end, he is working with Think Peace Learning & Support Hub as a Restorative Justice Consultant in support of the Iowa City Truth and Reconciliation Commission toward truth telling, racial healing, and reconciliation. He has worked as a Visiting Instructor at Colby College, co-teaching AY346 – Carcerality and Abolition. He was a lead facilitator of Maine State Prison’s Restorative Practices Steering Committee, served on Colby College’s Restorative Practices Team, and provides consultation to RJ practitioners in the US and abroad. Leo is a core organizer of the Carter School Working Group on Forgiveness and Reconciliation, creating spaces of co-learning, growth, and trauma healing in the context of forgiveness and reconciliation. He is also a columnist for the The Bollard (formerly Mainer), where he writes a monthly column to raise public consciousness around the existence and power of humanity in carceral spaces.
