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Access is a Verb: Choreographic Approaches to Expanding Accessible Classrooms

In this workshop, participants will explore basic tenets of disability justice as frameworks for expanding accessibility in their classrooms. Facilitators e g condon (MFA Candidate, University of Illinois) and Elliot Reza Emadian (incoming Assistant Professor of Dance at RIT) will guide the group to harness improvisatory skills and imagine a choreographic approach to pedagogy.

Elliot Reza Emadian

Elliot Reza Emadian is an interdisciplinary artist and educator. Their work occurs in the intersection of dance and choreography, video art and editing, sound and music, light and photography, and popular culture. Through a lifetime of dancing, they have accrued influences from tap and jazz styles, contemporary releasing forms, modern dance, ballet, popular music video dance, and experimental performance art. Elliot has performed and toured with Sara Hook Dances and David Parker, and presented solo choreography across the US. Most recently, Jack and Diane was presented at In the heartland (Links Hall, Chicago,  IL). Choreography functions as a framework for re-chronicling the story of American culture through written, artistic, and educational interventions. Elliot interrogates systems of ableism in dance classrooms and presented “Accessibility in College Dance: a collaborative approach” at the 2024 Illinois DEO conference and National Dance Educators Organization Dance and Disability Summit. Elliot holds a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from W&L University and a Master of Fine Arts in Dance from the University of Illinois. Elliot is an Assistant Professor of Dance at Rochester Institute of Technology. 

E G Condon

e g condon (they/them) is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher currently based in Illinois. They are currently a second-year MFA candidate in Dance at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. They hold a BFA in Fine Arts and a BA in Dance from The New School. In their artistic process, e g attempts to reckon with grief, death, illness, AIDS, and archives, working predominantly in soft sculpture and dance. In their free time, they are an avid knitter and ceramicist. Their artwork and choreography have been presented throughout NYC and in print, and their BFA thesis was selected by Dean Anne Gaines to represent the Fine Arts department’s 2018 graduates. They have had the pleasure of working in support of, among others, Ralph Lemon, Neil Greenberg, Yoshiko Chuma, Jennifer Monson/iLAND, Beth Gill, Elizabeth Kendall, and Visual AIDS.

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