Dancing to Connect
Dancing to Connect: A Conversation about Cultural Exchange in the Arts
Join Club Members and alumni for a conversation on the transformative power of art in international relations. Cornell Professor Penny Von Eschen and Jonathan Hollander, founder of Battery Dancy Company, will consider the historical context of the fluctuating commitments toward funding the arts on the part U.S. government, and argue that the U.S. has benefited enormously in the moments when it has embraced creative exchange through the arts as a fundamental part of its diplomacy and its representations of the U.S. in the world.
About our speakers:
Penny Von Eschen is the L. Sanford and Jo Mills Reis Professor of Humanities at Cornell University. Her scholarship is engaged with the history of the United States in global and transnational dimensions and has sought to broaden the archive for historians of U.S. foreign relations. It has focused on the projects and subjectivities of critics, activists, and artists as well as including official multi-national state archives (and their internal debates) and the role of literature, popular culture, and mass media representations as a broader public and cultural arena for the making of foreign policy. She is the author of Satchmo Blows up the World: Jazz Plays the Cold War; Cold War Nostalgia: The Wages of Memory in the post- 1989 World; and Race against Empire: Black Americans and Anticolonialism.
Jonathan Hollander is the President and Artistic Director of Battery Dance Company. He is one of the outstanding choreographers of his generation and has taken a leadership role in international cultural exchange and social activism. He founded Battery Dance Company in New York City in 1976 and has choreographed over 75 works that the Company has presented in major theaters and festivals across five continents. Hollander's work has been supported by the Educational and Cultural Affairs Bureau of the U.S. Department of State, U.S. Embassies and Public Diplomacy Offices of Regional Bureaus; National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Ford Foundation and many others. The New York Times has described Battery Dance Company as "The New Face of Cultural Diplomacy."
6:00-6:30pm cocktail reception, 6:30pm lecture, gratis. Advance reservations required by Friday, April 22nd.
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