Reading the Body: Film Premier and Panel Conversation on Dance, Poetry and the Body Politic

Last year’s Reading the Body film premiered at NYAM and went on to garner top prizes at multiple international film festivals. This year’s film turns its attention to Body Politic, using dance and poetry to explore the fraught intersection of our bodies and our health with society.

Join us for the exclusive premiere of the much-anticipated new film, Reading the Body: Body Politic, accompanied by expert panel, conversation, and reception. This event is in collaboration with Bellevue Literary Review and The Paige Fraser Foundation.

ASL interpretation provided.

Agenda:

Moderator:

Danielle Ofri, MD, PhD, MACP, D Litt(Hon) is editor-in-chief of the Bellevue Literary Review. Her day job is a doctor at Bellevue Hospital and clinical professor of medicine at NYU, but she studied at the Alvin Ailey School during high school and at the Martha Graham School during her medical training. She's written about dance and medicine, and has authored six books about medicine and the doctor-patient connection. http://www.danielleofri.com/

Panelists

Miriam Rowan is a psychologist who cares for performing artist-athletes, trauma-related disorders, eating disorders, career transitions, and identity exploration/clarification. She practices in New York, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania, and is affiliated with Boston Children's Hospital's Division of Sports Medicine and Harvard Medical School. She was previously a dancer with the San Francisco. http://www.miriamrowan.com/

Nisha Sajnani is the Director of the NYU Program in Drama Therapy and Theatre & Health Lab. She is also on faculty with the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma and is a co-founding, co-director of the Jameel Arts & Health Lab, established as a collaboration with the WHO, with a mission to measurably improve lives through the arts. https://steinhardt.nyu.edu/people/nisha-sajnani

Paul J. Edwards is assistant professor of English and Dramatic Literature at NYU and a book reviews editor for The Black Scholar. He previously taught at Southern Methodist University and held a fellowship at NYU’s Center for Ballet and the Arts. His work brings together studies in Black American performance, modernism, and sexuality. https://as.nyu.edu/faculty/paul-edwards.html