Student Creates Collaborative Dance Piece Informed by Restorative Practice and Indigenous Studies
![On the left: Yarrow sits cross-legged on the dance studio floor wearing a grey tank top. On the right: A still from Yarrow's dance performance, "This Medicine is Good."](/sites/default/files/styles/narrow_column_featured_image_640x288/public/2024-08/Yarrow%20%282%29.png?h=89b62402&itok=UsCy3AOM)
"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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