5.22 PER; Saturday 17:00 CT
http://www.uncwstorytelling.org/directors-solo-show
| Director’s Solo Show — UNCW Performance StudiesGazed At: Stories of a Mortal Body Written & Performed by Julie-Ann Scott-Pollock Directed by Frank Trimble . Next Performance will be Virtual at the Cucalorous Film and Performance Festival on November 22nd @6:00.www.uncwstorytelling.org |
A Message from the Performer/Writer:
I was born with spastic cerebral palsy. Six operations over two decades transformed my body from hunched with turned in feet, that evoked stares of discomfort, into a body with a limp that the untrained eye may mistake for a temporary injury. Living through multiple iterations of disabled identity has enabled me to understand what it means to live through a mortal body. Gazed At: Stories of a Mortal Body is my one-woman production that combines personal storytelling with visual art to engage audiences in the struggle to understand, accept, and ultimately embrace our inescapable mortality. This cultural shift allows us to create a space that adapts to and flexes around our forever-changing, vulnerable bodies.
About the Writer/Performer:
Dr. Scott-Pollock is a Professor of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. Her research and performance work focus on Personal Narrative as Performance of Identity in Daily Life with a focus on stigmatized embodiment. She is the director of UNCW Performance Studies which includes the UNCW Storytellers, UNCW Hawk Tale Players, and the Just Us Performance Troupe for Social Justice that perform annually. She also directs UNCW Performance Ethnography that staged narratives from her current research project: Seizing: Personal Stories of Living with Seizures. Her book Embodied Performance as Applied Research Art and Pedagogy that Gazed at is adapted from was the National Communication Association’s winner for the Lilla A. Heston Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Interpretation and Performance Studies an the Book of the Year in Ethnography.