Sarah Haughn is a writer and PhD candidate in Performance Studies
with designated emphases in Studies in Practice and Performance
and African and African American Studies. Her research considers
how processes of birth and gestation as grappled with in the
literature of Black writers elucidate the violence operative in
western metaphysics’ recurrent use of gestational language to
explain being. Scholarly interests include critical black
studies, philosophy of antagonism, gender theory, science and
technology studies, and poetics.
Dissertation: “Scoring Connective (T)issues: Bodily Experiments
and the Affective Entanglements between Fascia, A 21st Century
Emerging Human Biology, and Dance Improvisation Practices”
Biodynamic Craniosacral Practicioner, Fascia Researcher
Dissertation: “Vocal Processing in Transnational Music
Performances, From Phonograph to Vocaloid”
Gretchen is a performing artist concerned with presence and
embodiment in computer music, language and cultural difference in
performance, electroacoustic improvisation, and artistic
collaboration.
Keith Hennessyis an award-winning performer,
choreographer, teacher and organizer. Hennessy directs Circo
Zero, a laboratory for live performance that plays with genre and
expectation. Rooted in dance, Hennessy’s work embodies a unique
hybrid of performance art, music, visual and conceptual art,
circus, and ritual.
