Movement
ACT – CIN! 2015
1st Annual
Social Justice Conference
Chabot College
Hayward, CA
Dance Card
9 – 10am
Registration – Light Breakfast
Event Center
Building 700
10 – 10:30am
Morning Assembly
Event Center
Welcome from Change it Now!
Movement
Dr. Carla Walter, Dean of Arts, Humanities, & Social Sciences, Chabot College
Dr. Walter earned her doctorate in Critical Dance Studies/Dance Theory from UC Riverside.
She has written and published works that span dance, arts, economics, advertising, and
consumption fields. In Dance, Consumerism, and Spirituality (Palgrave, MacMilan, Oct. 2014),
Walter stresses the connections between dance and spirituality and suggests a return to arts as a
spiritual connection anthropologically.
Notes:
10:45 – 11:45am
Morning Breakout Sessions
Session One:
“Engage” from “In Mourning”
Rm. 855
Karin Cabello-Moriarty
Music by Mercedes Sosa, “Yo Vengo a Ofrecer mi Corazon”
This solo is from a longer dance work that embodies and presents the theme of living under the
dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet in Chile, while I was a small child. “Engage” embodies how people can
endure the atrocities and injustices of those who misuse power to their own advantage. This dance is also
a tribute to my brother, Winston, who lost his life by the hands of military insurgents in 1973. Karin
Moriarty’s choreography is based in Contact Improvisation and “Ritual Theater.” Her teaching
emphasizes the idea of magic and how energy plays a role in the movement and language of the body.
She is currently a Harbin Jam organizer/teacher and a regular teacher and organizer of the West Coast
Contact Improvisation Jam in Berkeley. She also teaches both modern dance and contact improvisation
at several venues and events in the Peninsula.
Session Two:
UnLOCKing the truth behind Street Dance
Event Center
Alan Mar David
This workshop will be conducted in two parts. The first half will be a presentation which include video
clips and slide show. The second half will be a dance exploration workshop. In the presentation, we will
discuss the social, historical, and political factors that contributed to the development of the Street Dance
styles of Locking and Popping in the San Francisco Bay Area. We will also cover how the intersection of
race, ethnicity and class played a prominent role in street dance culture in the 1960s and 1970s. In the
dance workshop, we will cover some Locking dance style basics with a little bit of Popping and Hip
Hop. Street Dance is a way for people to create identity, empower self and community, and also create
cultural capital for people who are marginalized. Alan Mar David received his MA in Ethnic Studies from
San Francisco State University and is the High School Outreach Specialist at Chabot College.
Session Three:
Collaborative Calligraphy
Rm. 811
Patricia Shannon
Using meditation, participants will explore how they can more deeply inhabit their bodies. After being
shown a video of the art-making process, the workshop participants will travel over to an outdoor art
space to create collaborative calligraphy artwork. The work requires being fully present to yourself and
others. Patricia Shannon is a Professor of Humanities, Philosophy, and Religious Studies at Chabot
College.
Notes:
12 – 1pm
The Anastasio Project
Feature Performance:
NAKA Dance Theater
Stage One/Little Theater
The Anastasio Project tells the story of Anastasio Hernandez-Rojas, who was a Mexican national who
was detained at the U.S.-Mexico border in 2010 and was killed by a dozen Customs and Border Patrol
Agents. From the starting point of Anastasio’s story, the performance expands to explore similarities
shared with young adults’ stories of police brutality and racism in East Oakland, CA. The piece uses
dance, acting, video projection and spoken word to explore these issues and engage the audience in
multiple ways. Navarrete x Kajiyama creates interdisciplinary performance works using movement,
theater, art installation, multimedia, and site-specific environments. Our work has been influenced by
ritual, cultural studies, and the political and environmental concerns of the world in which we live. In the
last eight years, the themes in our work have shifted to address our deepening concern with social and
environmental issues.
1 – 1:30pm
Lunch (provided)
Event Center
Notes:
1:45 – 3:00
Afternoon Breakout Sessions
Session One:
Bodies of Color:
Performances of Gender
Rm. 811
Bedilia Ramirez
Feminine and masculine are socially constructed terms that are related to characteristics rather than
biology. Yet we wear our “masculinity” and “femininity” on our bodies. More importantly, there are
physical and social boundaries that complicate these terms more when we include race and
socioeconomics. This workshop will deconstruct our conception of gender and the importance of using
performance as a tool for healing in our bodies, relationships, and community. It will feature both live and
recorded performances by women of color and an interactive discussion. Bedilia Ramirez received her
MA in Communication Studies from San José State University and is the Employment Coordinator for
Chabot College.
Session Two:
Theater of the Oppressed:
Theater as a Pedagogy of Social Justice
Event Center
Jiwon Chung
Theater of the Oppressed is a collection of games, techniques and exercises for using theater as a vehicle
for personal and social transformation. This workshop will introduce the basic techniques and methods
Theater of the Oppressed: Demechanization, Dynamization, Image Theater, Forum Theater; Rainbow of
Desire/Cop in the Head. The workshop will be experiential, generative and dialogical. There will be an
emphasis on integrating and connecting the work to other theories and practices of popular
education. Attention will be paid to cultivating, developing, and refining the skills of mindfulness, focus
& dialogue, embodied/situated/constructivist learning, to engage in the work of personal and collective
transformation; creativity, resilience, and critical intelligence will also be emphasized. Jiwon Chung,
former President of the National Organization for Theatre of the Oppressed (TO), is a Professor at the
Starr King School for the Ministry and Artistic Director of Kairos Theater Ensemble. Jiwon’s work
focuses on the application of theater as a tool for social and political change, using TO to challenge,
resist and transform systemic oppression and structural violence, and to redress large scale historical
atrocity and global injustice.
Session Three:
On Resistance: from the outside in and the inside out
Rm. 854
Katherine Mezur
This is a transnational performance workshop, which will use movement practices and theories from
Japanese traditional, contemporary, and experimental performance forms, such as Noh, Kabuki, Butoh,
and Suzuki training methods. Beginning with experiments with these forms, we will explore the dominant
movement techniques and regulations for the performance of these diverse forms. Katherine Mezur, PhD,
is a freelance Performance Studies scholar, artist, and dramaturg. She is an organizer and co-curator for
the Performance Studies international (PSi) Fluid States, Aomori, Tohoku conference and will lead the
Corporeality working group, made up of artists and scholars.
3:10 – 3:30pm
Closing Performance:
A Poem For Motherland
Event Center
Byb Bibene
A Poem For Motherland is a dance piece dedicated to Africa. Trying to break with all the stereotypes
labeled to Africa, this dance poem tells the beauty of the continent. Africa is not all about wars, famine,
fighting. Africa has poetry, romance, beautiful nature, wealth, dances, music, sport and science. Therefore
there is a need to remind Africans to regain that pride and tell it to the world. This dance is a celebration
of the beauty of Africa by one of its sons. Byb Bibene is a choreographer and performer working in
theater and contemporary dance. His own technical and aesthetic sensibility is rooted in the culture and
dances of his country of origin, the Republic of Congo. He has toured the world and performed
internationally with companies originating from Africa, Europe and the USA. In 2006, Bibene co-founded
Li-Sangha dance company, whose work Mona Mambu received two laurels and the 3rd Place award at
Les Rencontres chorégraphiques de l’Afrique et de l’Océan indien, and likewise, won the Radio France
Internationale Dance Prize in Paris.
Notes:
CIN! is an academic social justice leadership program designed
to empower students interested in exploring various issues
facing their communities, who would also like to transfer to
four-year colleges and universities. CIN! students build strong
relationships with each other and cultivate skills to become
leaders in their communities. To learn more, visit
www.chabotcollege.edu/cin.
Special Thanks to
CIN Faculty, Students, and Volunteers
NAKA Dance Theater
Craig Shira, Chabot Print Shop
Glenn & Naomi Parke, Fresh & Natural
Kari McAlister, Theater Manager
Rosie Mogle, Business Office
Debra Kling, Assistant to the Dean of Language Arts
Chabot College Campus Safety
Dr. Carla Walter, Dean of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
Dr. Marcia Corcoran, Dean of Language Arts
ValJean Dale, Interim Dean of Counseling
Connie Willis, Vice President of Administrative Services
Dr. Matt Kritscher, Interim Vice President of Student Services
Dr. Stacy Thompson, Vice President of Academic Services
Dr. Susan Sperling, Chabot College President