Johanna Kirk

I spent last spring traveling in Guinea with a few members of one of the country's national dance companies.  As I went to each village, I learned the traditional women's dances of that region.  My presentation will be a tribute to the lives and art of the Guinean women who were so generous to share their culture with me when dance was our only common language.  I hope to create an environment in the space that will cultivate empathy and appreciation for the landscape through which I traveled and the people whose lives I briefly entered and who entered my heart in a very permanent and profound way.  I will do this through creating an installation inspired by and incorporating photographs, artifacts, video projection, my journals, research that I conducted before and after my travels on the female experience in Guinea today... and me! I will be dancing, as part of this environment, a series of "portraits" of some of the women who particularly “moved” me.

 

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