BRIDGES

The information and website were fully accessible until the Summer of 2024, when LROD took a short break.

VISITING DANCE INNOVATORS PROGRAM

ABOUT

The Visiting Dance Innovators Program (VDIP), co-presented by Theater, Dance & Media, and Harvard Dance Center, brings exemplary dance artists and scholars to campus for a multi-pronged engagement around the expansive innovations in Dance Studies, embodied research, and artistic methods of practice. VDIP builds bridges for university partnerships, creating cross-disciplinary connections and illuminating the relevance of dance studies.

The vision, mission, and funding support behind this seed project belongs to the principal investigator and choreographic designer, Head of Dance and lecturer in Theater, Dance and media, Professor LROD, who facilitated by design with the Harvard Dance Center, (HDC), Theater, Dance & Media (TDM), Graduate School of Design (GSD), Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Museum of Science and Culture, and Harvard’s Foundation for Intercultural & Race Relations to ensure artist needs and desires were heard first, before institutional ones. The funding support comes from the Provostial Fund for the Arts and Humanities to upstart Professor LROD’s faculty project during 2021 & 2022. Professionals came to Harvard with cross-disciplinary research processes engaging with students, faculty, and structural programming to support the choreographic nature of dance and movement studies.

Details

  • Workshop in the artist’s practice and methodologies

  • Free community workshop, open to the greater community

  • Artist-led conversation or Film Screening, open to the greater community

  • Visit to curricular course(s)

  • Research and spacious access to Harvard resources

*All funds went to artist’s fees, travel, hospitality, and commissions.

Currently, VDIP is no longer available.
Thank you for your support.

VDIP ARTISTS

Wideman Davis Dance

Located: Chicago, IL and Columbia, SC
Special thanks to the co-collaborative team from Sarah Clunis and Ilisa Barbash at The Peabody Museum of Archeology and Ethnology, Brenda Tindal at Museum of Science and Culture

Amy O’Neal

Located: Los Angeles, CA
Special thank you to Hip Hop Archives

GERARD AND KELLY

Located: Paris, France
Special thank you to Harvard’s Graduate School of Design (GSD) Andrew Holder and Carrie Lambart Beatty

Tatiana Desardouin

Located: New York, NY (Switzerland)
Special thank you to Harvard Foundation of Race and Culture and Hip Hop Archives

New England FOUNDATION OF THE ARTS (NEFA), ArtLab, and ArtsThursday

PARTNERS

 

Few thoughts

During the Fall of 2023, LROD (Interim Head of Dance and Lecturer in TDM) was awarded a New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA) NEST GRANT to organize with 3arts, Space538, BDT, and ArtLab at Harvard in bridging the New England community together and open networks for mobilizing performance companies by supporting artists. The enrolled community of TDM 147WC were at the heart of this project and residency archive and experience. The Carol Kaye Project launched as a community bridge. The evening was made possible by Harvard Arts Thursday, Huca, NEFA, and Artlab and was open to the public for free. Students organized, designed, and took over the ArtLab while working with the artist’s archives through a class component designed by LROD in TDM. The potential or possible program designs for movement artists do not reflect on the fantastic collaborators and NEFA grant who supported or were involved in this programming. We had over 150 join us in the celebration.

https://artlab.harvard.edu/t-d-m-womxn-choreographers-and-intermedia-with-lrod/