[CCoE Notice] CANCELLED: Your Brain on Dance Performance 12/7/15

[Grayson, Audrey A]

The Your Brain on Dance Performance this evening has been cancelled. We will follow up soon with details on the rescheduled performance.


From: <Thayer>, Natalie H <nhthayer at central.uh.edu<mailto:nhthayer at central.uh.edu>>
Date: Tuesday, December 1, 2015 11:12 AM
To: "Engi-dist at egr.uh.edu<mailto:Engi-dist at egr.uh.edu>" <Engi-dist at EGR.UH.edu<mailto:Engi-dist at EGR.UH.edu>>
Subject: [CCoE Notice] Your Brain on Dance Performance 12/7/15

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Join us at 5:30 p.m. Monday, Dec. 7, in the UH Engineering Building 1 Atrium for the third in a series of events as part of a groundbreaking collaboration between Blaffer Art Museum, Houston-based artists, and the University of Houston’s Noninvasive Brain-Machine Interface Systems Laboratory, seeking clues to what happens in the brain as people create, perform, and contemplate art.

Wearing skullcaps equipped with sensors, UH dancer-choreographers John Beasant III, Teresa Chapman, and Becky Valls will play a variation of Exquisite Corpse, a collaborative, chance-based game made famous by the Surrealists in the 1920s — but they’ll be dancing rather than drawing.

The demonstration will be followed by a discussion of the dancers’ process and the goals of the research — funded by the National Science Foundation (#BCS 1533691) and led by engineering professor Jose Luis Contreras-Vidal — to study connections between the brain and creativity, expression, and the perception of art.

Future Your Brain on Art events will feature similar collaborations between artists in other disciplines, including the visual, performing, and literary arts.

This project is an outgrowth of the Blaffer Art Museum Innovation Series, launched in Spring 2015 to foster cross-disciplinary collaborations between the arts and sciences.
Visit https://www.egr.uh.edu/events/2015/your-brain-dance for more information.
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