Round Table: Why Embodied Knowledge Matters

A collective exploration

Dr. Caroline Ribbers, Stephen Shropshire, and Dr. Suzan Tunca will share insights from their doctoral research, highlighting why embodied knowledge plays a vital role in dance creation and education. Ribbers and Tunca reflect on completed projects, while Shropshire offers a glimpse into his ongoing research and evolving ideas. Together, they invite you to engage in an open, inquisitive dialogue to explore how the body as a source of knowledge and creativity, can inform and inspire artistic practice, pedagogy, and research and what this can mean in relation to society at large.