Org Meeting

If you want to participate in Room Selection Nights, you must be registered in the system before 12 p.m. (noon) EST on Tuesday, April 9, 2019.  Be sure to do this early, so that if you run into any issues we can assist you.

To find the Housing Selection Site:

1. Select the “Offices & Other Services Bucket”
2. Click on Residential Life
3. Click on Housing & Staff Selection

You will need to accept the housing contract and lead paint agreement before you can start.

To register as an individual:

4. Register via selecting “Room Selection Nights” on the “Explore Housing” page.
5. Read the information on the “Room Selection Nights” page and go to the navigation box and select “Form a group of one”.
6. Check the “status” tab to make sure the housing type in the status box says “Room Selection Nights”.

To apply as a group of two or more individuals:

1. The first person registers via selecting “Room Selection Nights” on the “Explore Housing” page.
2. Read the information on the “Room Selection Nights” page and find the box at the bottom of the page and select “Form a Group”.
3. Email addresses can be entered so invites are sent to the rest of the selection group.
4. The invited people will receive an email inviting them to join. They can either click the link in the email or go to their e-portfolio and select “join group” and enter the email address or WesID of the person that invited them.
5. Each student in the group must register separately. Everyone should check their “status” tab to make sure the group names and housing type in the status box are accurate.

Paz y luz,

Liliana Carrasquillo-Vasquez  (she, her pronouns)

Assistant Director of Residential Life

Wesleyan University

860-685-3550/ lcarrasquill@wesleyan.edu

Drop-in Hours: M: 3-4pm, Th: 3-4pm, and F: 9-10am

Beyond Assimilation: Seeking a Disabled Aesthetic

Lecture/Demonstration with Toby MacNutt  https://www.tobymacnutt.com

Thursday, April 4, 4:30-6PM, Schonberg Dance Building, 247 Pine St

As disability in dance becomes more visible and mainstream, there is pressure to assimilate to mainstream dance aesthetics. But disability presents an enormous range and variation of potential in movement, perception, and thinking, by its very nature, which can expand upon and challenge the existing field. What does it mean to embrace a disabled aesthetic? How does it change dance practices and performance? Toby MacNutt will discuss these questions, show some sample work, and speculate on the future of disability in dance and why it matters.

This lecture/demonstration is sponsored by the Dance Department and Disability Studies Course Cluster, the Division II Dean’s Office and the Center for Pedagogical Innovation.

Relational Dance

Open Class. No experience necessary, all are welcome!

Friday April5, 1:20-4:10PM, Schonberg Dance Building, 247 Pine Street

Working as a group requires consensus, a shared understanding of goals, boundaries, and trust. To negotiate this consensus, each group member needs to be able to communicate their needs, and that requires understanding them. We’ll practice locating our own physical and emotional boundaries, and blending them safely into duos and groups. We’ll also explore some specific tools for leaderless thinking as a group, and creating, strengthening, and straining relationships with choreography.

This lecture/demonstration is sponsored by the Dance Department and Disability Studies Course Cluster, the Division II Dean’s Office and the Center for Pedagogical Innovation.

BIO Toby MacNutt  https://www.tobymacnutt.com is a queer, nonbinary trans, and disabled dancer/choreographer, author, and teacher living in Burlington, VT. They make dance work for crutches, wheels, ground, and aerial. In June 2018 Toby premiered ENTER THE VOID, a performance installation in the darkness of space, accompanied by a sci-fi poetry guidebook. Toby has been creating performance work since 2014 and has also performed with Heidi Latsky’s GIMP Project, Tiffany Rhynard/Big APE, Nicole Dagesse/Murmurations Dance, and Lida Winfield, among others.

A few short readings that will give context in Dance and Disability, and also its intersection with Queer Studies.

Rather than trying to find comprehensive overviews of disability in dance I picked a few for a particular example, Kinetic Light’s “Descent”. Conveniently, I know both Alice and Laurel.

History, including of disability in dance in general and of Alice and Laurel and DESCENT specifically: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/7xyyyx/the-women-building-a-new-art-form-in-the-world-of-dance

Theory, including the ideas of supercrips and the connection between disability and queerness and race, https://filthydreams.org/2018/04/15/what-bodies-and-whose-stories-do-we-primarily-witness-onstage-intersectional-world-making-with-kinetic-lights-descent/

Both of those articles cite a number of folks who would be good to explore more of (Carrie Sandahl, Simi Linton) if classes are looking for more context, and link to other articles and materials with more info too.

More about DESCENT: https://kineticlight.org/

: ) Toby

Greetings Member of the class of 2022,
Now that you have adjusted to your world at Wes, one of your peers, Sylvia Wedner is organizing efforts to establish a Class of 2022 Council. The purpose of this council will be to coordinate targeted activities in order to build class spirit. If you have a knack for building community, events planning, and overall fun, please complete the application below. We are looking for 4 enthusiastic councilmembers to start the work. The application deadline will be April 1, 2019.
wishing you all the best,
Sylvia Wedner’ 22 and Dean Thornton

Click Here to Apply

Sign-up Here

Class of 2022 – Open to the first 25 students to sign up by 3/31/19. Signup Here

Tuesday, April 2, 2019, 5:30 – 6:30 pm, Office of Religious & Spiritual Life – 169 High Street 2nd Floor

Come join Dean Thornton and Rev. Tracy for an informal dinner where we can chat about life, discuss things that are stressing you out, and mentally prepare for the last stretch of the spring semester.

Wesleyan can be stressful. Join us for dinner and discussion related to how to remain centered and calm amid the chaos. Rev. Tracy will introduce us to a few strategies for discovering increased peace and mindfulness.