CSMP Programming

Brown Girl Dreaming, Jacqueline Woodson’s lyric memoir about finding her voice as a young African American writer, will be collaboratively adapted for performance by the students in Professor Dani Bedau’s THEA 510 advanced Creative Drama course. This 30-minute adaptation will focus on themes of civil rights, education and learning, and growing up African American in the 1960’s and 70’s. This hybrid piece will feature live performance and a range of visual and mediatized images. SDSU campus performances took place in the Digital Humanities Center April 28 and 29, 2022.

• Directed by Professor Dani Bedau

 

The Digital Shakespeares lecture series asked what we do with bodies, spaces, texts, and technology in the 21st century. Shakespeare is the ideal medium for such questions. Three lectures — with speakers Gina Bloom (UC Davis), Elizabeth Hunter (Wash. U.), and D.J. Hopkins (SDSU) — shared some of the ways in which Shakespeare’s plays have been authorizing new modes of live and mediated performance for more than 125 years. Co-sponsored with the SDSU Digital Humanities Initiative.

• Organized by Professor D.J. Hopkins

Patrick Anderson asks how and why performance matters in the context of several non-theatrical phenomena — hunger striking, life-threatening illness, contemporary policing — and what performance might have to offer us in the context of existential despair. Join us for a provocative presentation with discussion and a reception to follow.

Organized by Professor Brian Hu in collaboration with the San Diego Asian American Film Festival: 

Manzanar Diverted is a documentary about the land where the Manzanar incarceration camps sat, their history as land stolen from indigenous people, and land that continues to be exploited by the City of Los Angeles for its water, further impacting the environment there. The film takes a semi-experimental approach to overlapping these various histories and communities. https://www.manzanardiverted.com/

Chuyun Oh is a Fulbright scholar and Associate Professor of Dance Theory at SDSU. Her presentation was based on her book K-Pop Dance: Fandoming Yourself on Social Media (Routledge 2022). Her award-winning scholarship has appeared in global media, top-tier journals, and anthologies. As a graduate of Kirov Ballet Academy, Dr. Oh received international dance competition awards and performed worldwide as a professional ballet / modern dancer before entering academia. Hosted at the SDSU Library’s Digital Humanities Center.

Created and curated by Professor Christopher Warren

Imagine a place where impossibly rich reverberation lets sounds gracefully linger in the air to form lush harmonies that swirl around us. The Omni Echo is an immersive synthesizer, an augmented reality experience that stretches sounds in time. 

The CSMP annually encourages faculty from SDSU, UCSD, and beyond to join us at a WOW festival event and host an informal gathering for post-show discussion.

Conceived, Directed, and Choreographed by Professor Jessica Humphrey

Portal is a two-day, transborder dance event that centers somatic approaches to bodily autonomy and communion in experimental choreography and performance. The diverse group of dancemakers involved range in age from early 20s to mid-50s and have varied relationships with the US-Mexico border, immigration, and national identity. The CSMP supported the performance of Portal, and hosted a post-show dialogue aimed at discussing the making of this extended-year process.

From Portal, directed by SDSU Professor Jess Humphrey. Photo by Ignacio Ponce.