Dogpile: So, what does it mean?
a choreographic work-in-progress by McGillicuddy Humanities Center Fellow Rehannah Baksh
Saturday, April 26, 2025, 3:00-4:30 PM, Dance Studio, 226 Class of 1944 Hall
Rehannah Baksh is a McGillicuddy Humanities Center Undergraduate Fellow whose project Dogpile: So, what does it mean? is an exhibition of choreographic work-in-progress, exploring movement interests and dancer dynamics based on Ranjana Khanna’s essay Indignity. The project explores the intersection of dance and philosophy drawing from a large scope including works by Anne Bogarts Siti company, Gaga movement vocabulary, and post-structural, decolonial, and literary discourse. In part, this work attempts to see—when language fails to articulate in experiences through the body, particularly concerning the process of dehumanization—how the body can try to then speak for itself. There will be a brief spoken introduction outlining the aims of the work-in-progress, followed by the performance, and talk back with the ensemble about questions of process and intent while they were performing. Baksh is advised by Rosalie Purvis, Assistant Professor of Theater and English.