![]() The series is supported in part by the Council for the Arts at MIT. Macras’s work-in-progress showing was part of the MIT Performing series, a prototyping and presenting series programmed by Jay Scheib, professor for Music and Theater Arts, and presented by the MIT Center for Art, Science & Technology. The 2019–20 residency at MIT also included workshops with students in Fendt’s classes on the Digital Humanities, Expanding the Museum, and Designing Art Archives, as well as classes in Music and Theater Arts focusing on dance, choreography, and improvisation. After a period of intensive development at MIT Building W97, Macras’s residency culminated in a work-in-progress showing of a new collaborative piece. Themes in her previous community-based performances include urban planning, globalization, migration, and xenophobia in communities in South Africa and Germany. Through a highly collaborative creative process, Macras’s work foregrounds the voices and experiences of the community members who contribute to the project as co-creators and performers. Drawing on her background in documentary, community, and biography-driven performance work, Macras partners with MIT faculty and students and the greater Cambridge community to develop a new dance theater piece. Eugene McDermott Award in the Arts at MITĪward-winning dance theater choreographer Constanza Macras came to MIT to collaborate with Kurt Fendt, Senior Lecturer in Comparative Media Studies/Writing and Director of the MIT HyperStudio, and other faculty members and students in Music and Theater Arts.School of Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences.Frontiers in Science, Technology, and the Arts. ![]()
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