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Ray Eliot Schwartz

Instructor in the Dance Program
Dance Program
2020 Campus Drive, Box 90686, Durham, NC 27708
2020 Campus Drive, Box 90686, Durham, NC 27708

Research Interests


Clarify embodiment as an artistic, cultural, and social practice.

Explore the implications of the integration of Somatic Movement Education as applied to Contemporary dance practice.

Maintain an active focus on the philosophical, political, and aesthetic concerns of a Somatic approach to embodiment.

I do this through moving, facilitating movement, designing, and directing scenic experience, writing, scribing, generating contexts for investigation and exploration, and through the production and realization of projects which emphasize pedagogical and administrative methodologies that support and mobilize the above within diverse contexts.