Initiatives
Staging the Animal: Theatrical Explorations of Contemporary Human-Animal Relations
Thursday, April 30th, 2015
Holly Hughes
Kim Marra
Jane Desmond, Organizer/Moderator
4:00pm
Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum
600 South Gregory
Urbana
Event Description
Well known performance artist Holly Hughes is joined by award-winning theater scholar Kim Marra to present work that explores human relations with animals through word, sound, image and movement in two performance pieces, with discussion following about the creative process and the growing field of animal studies.
Holly Hughes
Stamps School of Art and Design, Theatre and Drama, Women's Studies, University of Michigan
Kim Marra
Theatre Arts and American Studies, University of Iowa
Jane Desmond, Organizer/Moderator
Anthropology and Gender and Women's Studies, Illinois