Convergence Research | Testimony: Seen and Heard

Date:

Wednesday, September 18, 2024 | 6pm-7pm

Location:

Louise J. Moran Fine Arts Courtyard at the University of Houston (enter through Blaffer Art Museum)

Format:

Testimony: Seen and Heard, is a multidisciplinary collaboration between School of Theatre & Dance Professor Toni Valle, composer and alumnus of the Moores School of Music George Heathco and current BFA Sculpture student and visual artist Shelby Craze. In response to Shazia Sikander’s sculpture Witness, Testimony: Seen and Heard uses aerial dance, musical composition and visual art to explore kindred representations of female power and bodily autonomy. Drawing upon a vocabulary of social, historical and religious reference points informed by Sikander’s sculpture, Testimony: Seen and Heard explores the power of female choice under patriarchy.

About Convergence Research:

Convergence Research is a collaboration between the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts and the Blaffer Art Museum that supports students and faculty in the McGovern College of the Arts to explore connection and collaboration between the disciplines in the arts and beyond. It is a platform for experimentation and research with the goal of providing opportunities to push the boundaries of the artistic disciplines. Convergence Research promotes interdisciplinary inquiry and techniques to stimulate creative process and cultivate works that are performative, temporary and in any stage of process. This season Convergence Research is curated by Mitchell Center Graduate Assistant Anna Barr.

Free and open to all!

Photo: left to right: Dancers Shelby Craze, Veronica Ordonez and Michelle Reyes. Photo by Toni Valle