February 2012
15 posts
Please RSVP!
Please send your RSVP to the following email address with the time you will be attending and number of people in your party: RSVP.ofairandamnion@gmail.com
Remember the show is Saturday March 10th, with shows at 11am, 2pm, and 7pm.
Bittersweet symphony of babies =] →
January 2012
6 posts
Friends of Iowa Midwives
Friends of Iowa Midwives is a statewide grassroots organization working to: promote access to midwifery and out-of-hospital birth in Iowa; protect the rights of Iowa women to choose their place of birth and birth attendant; provide education about childbirth options; and create supportive community for birthing women and families. FOIM has chapters in Iowa City/Cedar Rapids, Central Iowa, the Quad...
Vision and Artist's Statement
Collaborating on this project with Joh has afforded me a rare opportunity to combine my expertise and passion as a birth worker with my delight in artistic exploration. My painting is inspired by the universal aesthetic of natural forms, and the recurring, echoing patterns of seemingly discrete formations, such as tree branches, blood vessels, coastlines, and clouds. Thematically, for this...
Kirk's Abstract
My thesis will explore the choreographies of pregnancy. I am interested in these “dances” as they manifest at both macro- and micro-scopic levels. I will study the patterns that women’s bodies perform, both physiologically and behaviorally, in the process of generating life. My dancers and I will explore the inevitable, intricate, and private biological dances encoded in our female DNA by tuning...
Save the date!
Performances will take place at Old Brick (26 East Market, Iowa City, IA) repeatedly throughout the day of March 10th, 2012. There will be a talk-back following the afternoon performance. There will be related dance events throughout the Iowa City community during the week of March 5-10.
A recommended $5 donation will be collected at the door and proceeds will go to support the Friends of Iowa...
Monica Brasile
Monica Brasile is a PhD Candidate and Graduate Instructor in the department of Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Iowa. Her doctoral research examines the politics of childbirth and childbirth advocacy in the U.S., focusing particularly on emerging trends in the politics of doula care and the roles of doulas as women’s health and reproductive justice advocates. She has...
About...
The work features an hour of original dances within an installation of silk paintings by visual artist and natural birthworker Monica Brasile and the debut of an evening-length musical composition for stringed, percussive, and electronic instruments by MFA candidate in Music Composition Jason Gregory. The score is Mr. Gregory’s master’s thesis as well and will be performed live. Performances will...
