Juliette Mapp Dance Lecture-Demonstration

Thursday, Oct 31 2019, 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM, VAPA Martha Hill Dance Theater
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Thursday, Oct 31 2019 6:30 PM Thursday, Oct 31 2019 7:30 PM America/New_York Juliette Mapp Dance Lecture-Demonstration OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Dancer, choreographer, and curator Juliette Mapp will present a lecture-demonstration about her work. VAPA Martha Hill Dance Theater Bennington College

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Dancer, choreographer, and curator Juliette Mapp will present a lecture-demonstration about her work.

Juliette Mapp is a dancer, choreographer, and curator, who lives and works in New York City and Stockholm, Sweden. Juliette has been on the faculty of The Eugene Lang School of Liberal Arts at The New School, Sarah Lawrence College, Barnard College, George Washington University, Fordham University, Bard College, and Wesleyan College. She is currently a full professor of choreography at Stockholm University of the Arts where she is responsible for designing and leading PhD curriculum in Artistic Research. In addition, she is on the faculty at P.A.R.T.S. in Brussels where she is a regular visiting teacher. In 2018, Juliette curated Alliances and Commonalities, an international conference in Artistic Research in Stockholm which hosted over 180 artists. In 2012, she was a guest curator for the Judson Now platform at Danspace Project and also co-curated Movement Research Fall Festival, Back to Basic that year. In 2010, she curated Back To New York City, a platform at Danspace Project. Juliette has published articles about her teaching, performing, and choreographic practices in Performing Arts Journal, Contact Quarterly, Movement Research Performance Journal, and SARMA, a European performance journal. Juliette has danced for many renowned choreographers including Deborah Hay, John Japserse, Vicky Shick, and Stephanie Skura. Over the past decade, Juliette has received a Robert Rauschenberg residency, a MANCC residency, and two Movement Research Artist-in-Residence awards. In date 2008, Juliette won a New York Dance and Performance, i.e. “Bessie” Awards in choreography for her piece Anna, Ikea and I and in 2002 received a Bessie for outstanding artistic achievement for her work as a performer in the choreography of John Jasperse.