Conversations on Social Choreography: Recent Episodes
Laboratory for Social Choreography
Conversations on Social Choreography is an oral history of Social Choreography, presented by the Laboratory for Social Choreography at the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University. Social Choreography is many things, among them a genre of engaged performance that uses bodies together in space to create new knowledge, as well as way of expanding the social dimension of performance into a form of pedagogy and social action.
In this episode, Luke Clancy talks to dramaturg and performance theorist, Steve Valk, about his work with William Forsythe and Ballet Frankfurt.
Our first episodes honor dramaturge Steve Valk (DE/USA) as he turned 60 in 2022. In dialogue with Luke Clancy, Steve unfolds a personal narrative that points to the roots of the emerging discipline of Social Choreography. Each episode gives unique insights into the thought processes of one of Social Choreography's most influential and fascinating minds. Steve Valk is co-founder of the Laboratory for Social Choreography at Duke University.
In this episode, Luke Clancy continues a conversation with Steve Valk about the dramaturg's roots in performance and choreography, and this time Valk comes into the orbit of theatre artist Robert Wilson.
Our first episodes honor dramaturge Steve Valk (DE/USA) as he turned 60 in 2022. In dialogue with Luke Clancy, Steve unfolds a personal narrative that points to the roots of the emerging discipline of Social Choreography. Each episode gives unique insights into the thought processes of one of Social Choreography's most influential and fascinating minds. Steve Valk is co-founder of the Laboratory for Social Choreography at Duke University.
In this episode, writer and radio maker Luke Clancy talks to Steve Valk, the dramaturg and performance theorist who has been at the heart of the project.
In this episode, writer and radio maker Luke Clancy talks to Steve Valk, the dramaturg and performance theorist who has been at the heart of the project.