BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:63@communityliteraciescollaboratory.com DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260602T183000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260728T203000 DTSTAMP:20260401T160625Z URL:https://communityliteraciescollaboratory.com/events/2026-possibilities -hub-dance-literacy SUMMARY:Dance Literacy: What Can Movement Teach Us About Our Writing\, Our History\, and Ourselves? DESCRIPTION:Dance Literacy: What Can Movement Teach Us About Our Writing\, Our History\, and Ourselves?\n\nFacilitated by Katie Marya\nWhere: Zoom\nW hen: June 2nd-July 28th\nTime: Tuesdays 6:30 - 8:30pm CST/7:30 - 8:30pm ES T\n\nRegistration link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfkbPmbZ7 lbnIAqUlLGI5Pbda9ZBEBjG3JrfUG0yW9yEZw9Cg/viewform\n\nAbout this Event\n\n\ nThis eight-week seminar is about working together to explore connections between dance\, writing\, and literacy. Each week\, we’ll move together gently. The movement exercises are designed for most bodies and all bodies are welcome. We'll read a selection of critical essays that focus on danc e and writing. And we'll observe ourselves and others move as we write and imagine our way toward our own movement literacies.\n\nSome of the big qu estions animating this seminar include: What happens when we make studying movement central to the process of literacy? What does moving\, studying movement\, and moving with others offer us as writers and stewards of cult ure? Can movement help us intuit the forms of our own writing? What memori es come up for you as you move? Or as you observe and reflect on your move ment and the movement of others? What patterns of movement feel most famil iar to you and where do they come from? What are the political stakes and risks of dance?\n\nNo prior dance or movement experience is required to pa rticipate.\n\n\n\n\n\nMeet the Faciliator\n\nDr. Katie Marya is a writer\, literary translator\, and teacher originally from Atlanta\, Georgia—she also loves to dance. She earned her B.A. in Spanish from Westmont College \, an M.F.A. in Poetry from Bennington College\, and a Ph.D. in English fr om the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where she currently works as the Ass istant Director of Composition.\nMarya’s debut poetry collection Sugar W ork was the Editor's Choice for the 2020 Alice James Book Award and recei ved praise from The New York Times. Her translation of Luis Othoniel Rosa ’s novel El gato en el remolino (Animal Spiral) is forthcoming from Cha rco Press in 2026. In 2019\, Marya created A Yellow Silence\, a sonic\, i ntertextual\, outdoor art installation that showed in Lincoln PoPs: Global Frequencies\, a public art exposition in downtown Lincoln\, Nebraska. Sh e has been awarded the James Dickey Prize in Poetry from Five Points and support from the Nebraska Arts Council and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Cente r for the Arts. She likes to collaborate across artistic disciplines and\ , for the past five years\, has been especially interested in the intersec ting worlds of dance and poetry in Puerto Rico and the Southern United Sta tes. More of her work can be found in AGNI\, North American Review\, Waxwi ng\, Guernica\, Salamander\,Fence\, among other literary magazines\, and o n the national poetry podcast The Slowdown Show.\nHer current project DRUM \, a hybrid poetry and essay collection\, performs a historical inquiry in to what a drum represents in the grief process while contending with the l oss of both her brother and father to fentanyl overdoses. Like Sara Uribe ’s Antígona González (2012) and Anne Carson’s Antigonick (2015)\, the collection participates in a lineage of women rewriting Sophocles’ A ntigone into their own cultural contexts. Marya situates the bereaved sist er on the porch swing\, on the dance floor\, and within the space of her o wn father’s life as a drummer and drum builder in Georgia to plumb death ’s painful lessons and to celebrate a long line of drummers—interlocut ors who urged Marya back toward love\, acceptance\, and a way to keep livi ng.\n\n ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://communityliteraciescollaboratory.com/wp- content/uploads/2026/04/dance-literacy-header-scaled.jpg CATEGORIES:Dance Literacy with Katie Marya,Possibilities Hubs END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20260308T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR