Of Words and Touch and Dance: A Collaboration (2012)

Programs: 
Other
Country: 
Brazil
Genre: 
Documentary
Performance/collaboration
Tags: 
Dance
Brazil

After a first trial run in the spring of 2012, when the IWP was invited to collaborate with the dynamic Battery Dance Company (link is external) of NYC during a reading tour on location in Fortalezza (Brazil), a second opportunity came our way in the fall of 2012. With “freedom” – the ability to move without constraints—as the keyword, writers submitted short texts, which then came to double as both inspiration and score for the dancers’ performances. - See more at: http://iwp.uiowa.edu/page/of-words-and-dance#sthash.LTrX6olj.dpuf

Year: 
2012

Happening Now

  • We regret the passing, on April 11, 2024, of the distinguished Romanian author and critic Dan Cristea, who served as the editor in chief of the Luceafărul de Dimineață cultural monthly. In addition to being an alum of the 1985 Fall Residency, Cristea received his PhD in Comparative Literature at the University of Iowa.

  • Our congratulations to 1986 Fall Residency writer Kwame Dawes, who has been named the new poet laureate of Jamaica.

  • Congratulations to our colleagues Jennifer Croft and Aron Aji, who are among those serving as judges for the National Book Awards this year, in their case in the category of translated literature.

  • Ranjit Hoskote’s speech at the 2024 Goa Literary Festival addresses the current situation in Gaza.

  • In NY Times, Bina Shah worries about the state of Pakistani—and American—democracy.

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