Embodied Believing

Faith in Motion

Sponsored by the Department of Dance with support from the BYU Museum of Art

July 17 and 18, 2009 at the Brigham Young University Museum of Art and in the BYU Richards Building dance studios.

During a day and a half of presentations, discussion, performance and moving a community of dancers will join together to explore the relationship between the discipline of dance and the doctrines of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.  Through papers, panels, movement sessions and choreography the symposium will engage in conversations about what it means to be a dancer and a Latter-day Saint.

Keynote panel on Friday will address the theological, aesthetic and philosophical implications of having a body.  Panelists to include BYU religion professor Robert Millet, visual artist Chris Young, and professor of philosophy at BYU Travis Anderson.

Highlights will be dancing in interactive ways with the exhibit in the museum, showings of choreography by Latter-day Saints who are creating works through faith and belief, a movement session that focuses on the integration of the body and the spirit and presentations that focus on dance and dancing as it reveals eternal truths.

We look forward to you joining us for our inaugural event.