In a movement-based course that seeks to explore the innovations that women have contributed to the field of dance, theater, and intermedia over the years, ArtLab will collaborate with LROD, Interim Head of Dance, to host a week-long residency in which students will work with professionals from the Boston Dance Theater on the development of a new performance entitled The Carol Kaye Project.
The Carol Kaye Project is Boston Dance Theater’s (B.D.T.) new program that celebrates seminal bassist Carol Kaye’s life and breadth of work, consisting of dance works by various American women choreographers. Kaye played on an estimated 10,000 recording sessions with everyone from the Beach Boys to Marvin Gaye, yet remains relatively unknown.
Interim Head of Dance and Lecturer in Theater, Dance & Media at Harvard University, Artistic Director of Harvard Dance Project, LROD is from El Paso, TX. As an educator, choreographer, filmmaker, mask maker, and new media designer, LROD’s mission crosses the borders we carry in co-creative spaces, sharing radical tenderness with each moving body. LROD creates inclusive installations and surreal dance works, integrating emerging technology with care. LROD has been invited to the Joyce Theater, N.Y.U./Steinhardt, and Jacob’s Pillow to present on advocacy, pedagogy, and technology with movement-based practices.
LROD brings over thirty years of experience as a performer and movement researcher and twenty years of choreographic, teaching, and visual arts experience. Company LROD started in 2014, working on projects ranging from solo to group work. LROD received their M.F.A. in Dance and Intermedia Studies from the Department of Dance at Ohio State University, alongside a Graduate Minor in Latinx Studies. LROD is a recipient of the Harvard Provostial Fund to launch the Visiting Dance Innovators Program (22-21), NALAC Leadership Fellowship (21), Migration, Mobility, and Immobility Project Graduate Grant (19), LROD received their B.F.A. from the Professional Dancers Program at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle (17) and received the Merce Cunningham Endowed Scholarship. For this project led by LROD, the ArtLab collaborates with the Theater, Dance, and Media Department (T.D.M.) at Harvard, which has support from NEFA.