Student Creates Collaborative Dance Piece Informed by Restorative Practice and Indigenous Studies
"I've always been connecting the dots between my different points of passion and pleasure..." says recent grad Aviva Yarrow Skoblow 20F. "I knew at Hampshire I wouldn't have to sacrifice one for another."
At Hampshire College, every student completes a "Div III," a yearlong, advanced study project, similar to a master’s thesis. Recent grad Aviva Yarrow Skoblow 20F collaboratively devised a performance piece titled “This Medicine is Good," guided by her restorative practice and Indigenous studies. She used dance, bodywork, and collaboration as a way of tapping into the depth of human emotion—for both her cast and her audience—that our culture often ignores.
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