Bringing the Border to Columbus | On Board(Hers) Goes Global: Presentation and Workshop

Photograph of discarded clothing and materials along immigration path
April 12, 2021
1:30PM - 3:00PM
Zoom

Date Range
2021-04-12 13:30:00 2021-04-12 15:00:00 Bringing the Border to Columbus | On Board(Hers) Goes Global: Presentation and Workshop Bringing the Border to Columbus Virtual Symposium April 12-16, 2021 Started in 2018 in Columbus, OH, On Board(hers) is a series of contemporary dance workshops and performances based on the experiences and testimonies of female immigrants, using movement, language and trauma-informed techniques to show the healing and therapeutic dimension of community dancing. By collecting testimonies and facilitating the transformation of traumas into movement forms, we seek to model best practices for transformational community engagement through storytelling and show how global mobility is part of contemporary national and global history. Today, On Board(hers) welcomes participants in France, Germany, Mexico and the US. Our three-headed presentation will offer an overview of our work, outcomes, and kinesthetic testimonies we collected over time. Addressing the different challenges each country encounter and the digital techniques we had to develop to ensure the safety of our participants, we will share images, videos and stories before facilitating a 20-minute workshop with the attendees of the symposium. Presenters Gloria Alejandra Flores | Associate facilitator for On Board(hers)-Mexico and PhD candidate at The University of Arizona Lucille Toth | Founder of On Board(hers) and assistant professor at The Ohio State University-Newark Flor Turiace | Independent dance teacher and associate facilitator for On Board(hers)-Germany *Introduction by Merijn van der Heijden, director, Ohio State Urban Arts Space Accessibility If you have questions or require an accommodation, such as live captioning or interpretation, to participate in these events, email Event Coordinator Melissa Rodriguez (rodriguez.796@osu.edu). Requests made two weeks before an individual event date will generally allow us to coordinate seamless access, but the university will make every attempt to meet requests made after this date.  Acknowledgments This event was funded by a grant from the Global Arts + Humanities Discovery theme. It is co-sponsored by the Latina/o Studies Program, Center for Folklore Studies, Urban Arts Space, Department of Sociology and Institute for Population Research. Zoom America/New_York public

Bringing the Border to Columbus Virtual Symposium
April 12-16, 2021

Started in 2018 in Columbus, OH, On Board(hers) is a series of contemporary dance workshops and performances based on the experiences and testimonies of female immigrants, using movement, language and trauma-informed techniques to show the healing and therapeutic dimension of community dancing. By collecting testimonies and facilitating the transformation of traumas into movement forms, we seek to model best practices for transformational community engagement through storytelling and show how global mobility is part of contemporary national and global history. Today, On Board(hers) welcomes participants in France, Germany, Mexico and the US.

Our three-headed presentation will offer an overview of our work, outcomes, and kinesthetic testimonies we collected over time. Addressing the different challenges each country encounter and the digital techniques we had to develop to ensure the safety of our participants, we will share images, videos and stories before facilitating a 20-minute workshop with the attendees of the symposium.

Presenters

  • Gloria Alejandra Flores | Associate facilitator for On Board(hers)-Mexico and PhD candidate at The University of Arizona
  • Lucille Toth | Founder of On Board(hers) and assistant professor at The Ohio State University-Newark
  • Flor Turiace | Independent dance teacher and associate facilitator for On Board(hers)-Germany

*Introduction by Merijn van der Heijden, director, Ohio State Urban Arts Space

Accessibility

If you have questions or require an accommodation, such as live captioning or interpretation, to participate in these events, email Event Coordinator Melissa Rodriguez (rodriguez.796@osu.edu). Requests made two weeks before an individual event date will generally allow us to coordinate seamless access, but the university will make every attempt to meet requests made after this date. 

Acknowledgments

This event was funded by a grant from the Global Arts + Humanities Discovery theme. It is co-sponsored by the Latina/o Studies Program, Center for Folklore Studies, Urban Arts Space, Department of Sociology and Institute for Population Research.