ResDance Series 8: Episode 2: Giving Care: A conversation on dance, motherhood, and sustainability with Satu Hummasti and Shaun Boyle D’Arcy
ResDance Series 8: Episode 2: Giving Care: A conversation on dance, motherhood, and sustainability with Satu Hummasti and Shaun Boyle D’ArcySatu Hummasti and Shaun Boyle D’Arcy share insight into their individual careers and how their collaboration exploring ethics of care giving and care giving began. In the episode, they explore their ways of working and reflect upon their processes of making and collaborating. Through discussion of their sharedthinking and practices, we explore having accountability and responsibility for beings other than ourselves; gender parity; the role or policy in creating change and the value of collective dance making. Throughout the episode, Satu and Shaun highlight the importance of using dance to share livedexperiences and the hope that through open dialogue and conversation, family life can more readily be integrated into arts and dance spaces. Satu Hummasti, originally from Helsinki, Finland, is a choreographer, dancer, educator, and writer who hasperformed, choreographed and taught throughout the United States, Europe, South and Central America, and Russia. Her work has been seen in Medellin, Colombia; Bordeaux, France; Edinburgh, Scotland (as a part of the 2007 Edinburgh FringeFestival); St. Petersburg, Russia (as a part of the Open Look Festival 2011), Helsinki, Finland, Oulu, Finland (as a part of the Arctic Steps Festival 2015), Kökar, Åland, and San Jose, Costa Rica; and nationally in New York, Boston, Phoenix, Salt Lake City, Edinburgh, Texas, and Seattle. Her work has beencommissioned by Compañía de Cámara Danza UNA in San Jose, Costa Rica; Repertory Dance Theater in Salt Lake City; Kannon Dance Company in St. Petersburg, Russia; for graduate students at the University of the Arts in Helsinki, Finland; and for the graduating class of professional artists at the Keskuspuisto AmmattiOpisto TanssiPuoli, also in Helsinki, and SBDANCE Curbside Theater in Salt Lake City. In NYC she has shown dances at Dance New Amsterdam, Chashama, The Construction Company, Sal Anthony’s Movement Salon, and at The John Ryan Theater at White Wave, as a part of the d.u.m.b.o. and Cool New York Dance Festivals. She currently collaborates on community-based projects and dance theater projects with Daniel Clifton- her most recent project “Shore” was awarded an ÅlandIsland Guest Artist Residency in Åland, Sweden. She is an Associate Professor in the School of Dance at the University Utah.Contact details: Email:
[email protected] Instagram: @satuhummasti Shaun Boyle D’Arcy is a dance artist and educator who hadan extensive performing career, dancing in classical ballet and contemporary companies including BalletMet (USA) and Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet (USA). She danced in a broad spectrum of works by leading choreographers such asGeorge Balanchine, Edwaard Liang, Jodie Gates, Larry Keigwin, James Kudelka, David Dorfman, Alonzo King, David Nixon, Marius Petipa, Emily Molnar, and Benoit-Swan Pouffer. Shaun’s own choreography stems from this lineage, intertwining her roots in ballet and contemporary styles. Her work has beenpresented internationally at venues including the Joyce Soho Theater (USA), Ailey Citigroup Theater (USA), Bonnie Bird Theatre (UK), Robin Howard Theatre at The Place (UK), and the Kennedy Center (USA) amongst others. Shaun holdsdegrees from New York University (BFA), Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance (MA), and George Mason University (MFA). She currently serves as a full-time faculty member in the School of Dance at George Mason University,located just outside of Washington D.C., and previously held academic appointments at the University of California, Irvine and the University of Utah. Additionally, Shaun continues to teach and choreograph as a guest artist at dance organizations in the United States and abroad.Contact details: Email:
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