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Calculated Movements: Dances For Democracy and Against Injustice
Long time Santa Cruz area dance company MoveSpeakSpin will perform our latest dance concert at The Landing, the newly renamed Scotts Valley Performing Arts Center Theater. Directed by choreographer Karl Schaffer, the concert’s dances deal with themes currently roiling the American political landscape: battles over diversity and the inclusion of women in mathematics and the sciences, imprisonment and maltreatment of those who dissent, the destruction of environmental safeguards as related to access to water, and war in the Middle East. In the current environment of attacks on every democratic and human rights principle, the performing arts help us resist these attacks and chart a path towards a world in which social justice thrives.
Joining twelve MoveSpeakSpin dancers will be actor, mathematician, and playwright Corrine Yap, performing her solo work, Uniform Convergence. Written and performed by Yap, Uniform Convergence juxtaposes the stories of two women trying to find their place in a white, male-dominated academic world. Corrine Yap’s one-woman play connects the struggles of 19th century Russian mathematician Sofia Kovalevskaya and a fictional Asian American woman coping with the prejudice she faces in the present. Yap has performed the play throughout the United States since 2016.
Event Links
Brochure: https://go.evvnt.com/3017307-0
Tickets: https://go.evvnt.com/3017307-1
