Feminism

Movement Rituals: Witchdancing w/ Michael J. Morris

Movement Rituals: Witchdancing w/ Michael J. Morris

Inspired by the work of Alkistis Dimech, Tatsumi Hijikata, Kazuo Ohno, Anna Halprin, and Keith Hennessy: Witchdancing is a a Butoh-based movement ritual practice developed from Michael Morris’ practice, and an ongoing exploration in both witchcraft and Butoh. This practice asks: what if a dance is also a spell with which we conjure our bodies and the worlds in which they live? In Witchdancing, we move through a continuous series of images, qualities, and states, engaging in a metamorphosis of the body. The movement is improvisational and requires no previous dance experience. The practice will be supported by an original soundscore by Moxy Martinez.

Artist Ben Cuevas encourages students to fill the campus with “soft” activism in yarn-bombing workshop

Artist Ben Cuevas encourages students to fill the campus with “soft” activism in yarn-bombing workshop

There is always a starting point. For multimedia artist, Ben Cuevas, it started with a knot. A knot in yarn, from there Cuevas took yarn and intertwined and intersected and turned it into intricate sculptural fabrications of skeletons, organs, and pharmacology. When he visited Ohio State recently, to teach a workshop on yarn bombing, Cuevas started his class with this simple instruction–start with a knot, a slip knot and then a loop.