Dance Studies Colloquium: Joellen Meglin (Temple University), “Overcoming Invisibility:  Ruth Page and the Intermedial Space” 

In writing Ruth Page: The Woman in the Work, I discovered that Page evolved two essential strategies to overcome her disempowerment as a woman working in the ballet world, where men dominated (and continue to dominate today) as choreographers, directors of major ballet companies, and impresarios.  First, she collaborated extensively with artists who worked in different arts media; and second—and as a direct consequence of the first strategy—she explored intermediality, or the process of imagining and synthesizing ideas across media.  Both strategies contained built-in mechanisms to enhance her artistic output and further her development as a choreographic artist.  In this presentation, I make my argument and offer extended examples of how Page practiced these strategies in different decades of the 20th century, thriving in the intermedial space as she the generated “audio-kinetic [dance] art,” “danced poetry,” and “televised ballet noir.” 

This event is open to the public and part of AIR.

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