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Compassion, Empowerment, and Co-creation: Epistemic Justice in Margolis Method and Lessac Kinesensics

Through the framework of Compassionate Pedagogy, this presentation explores the ways in which the voice/movement/acting methods of Lessac Kinesensics (LK) and Margolis Method (MM) offer powerful strategies for co-creating knowledge, meaning, creativity, and equity in the classroom. This presentation requires no prior knowledge of LK or MM. Accessible concepts will be offered to meet participant’s existing knowledge and practices. Exploring notions such as body wisdom, the teacher-within, feedback filters, and co-created rubrics, participants will gain strategies for co-creating inclusive, collaborative, and accessible learning spaces with their students. Like compassion, these practices provide a container that can hold all possibilities, all abilities, all people, all languages, all identities and all experiences. By honoring the body’s sensing and feeling process and the student-artist’s creative authorship LK and MM foster epistemic justice, simultaneously, for both teachers and students.

Elizabeth Parks

Elizabeth Parks is an actor, director, devisor, and voice and movement coach. She is a Lessac Kinesensics Certified Trainer, a Level II Margolis Method Certified Educator, and trains with Theatre Nohgaku in the Kita School tradition of Noh theatre. She currently serves as Assistant Professor of Acting/Stage Movement at Appalachian State University where she teaches Acting, Movement, and Voice. Her research focuses on Margolis Method, Noh, and Lessac Kinesensics as embodied theatre-making and embodied actor training. She combines Compassionate, Contemplative, and Critical pedagogies with embodied ways of knowing and being to create empowering learning spaces. www.elizabethparks.org

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