Today’s research largely fell into the realm of “site work”—engaging with an environment through movement in order to deepen understanding about a place and its relevance to history, community, or experience (among other things!) As we dig deeper into this research, it is becoming clear that we are only beginning to get somewhere, but it certainly feels meaningful.
Read MoreToday was the first day of our research trip in Flint. I'm here with Brooke and Dot, two University of Iowa undergraduate dance students. We spent a large portion of our day at Sloan Museum on the Flint Cultural Center campus. This history museum includes a permanent exhibit dedicated to the history of Flint. We spent about two hours moving through the museum collecting both movement traces and written observations about Flint and its relationship to the concept of "The American Dream."
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