The Black Box Theatre event includes a performance by Bharatanatyam dancer Malini Srinivasan.
Tuesday, March 13
Religious Studies at the Crossroads presents “Dancing Across Religions: Embodied Yearnings for the Divine”
Black Box Theatre, 7:30 p.m.
Admission is free.
Acclaimed Bharatanatyam dancer Malini Srinivasan offers a performance-demonstration of this classical Indian dance form in conjunction with a panel discussion focusing on the religious dimensions of dance featuring Katherine C. Zubko (assistant professor of religious studies, UNC Asheville) and Jane Wellford (professor of performing arts, Elon University).
This interdisciplinary conversation considers how dance functions as a site of cooperation and creativity in cases where dancers embody and make available to audiences their own and others’ religious narratives.
“Religious Studies at the Crossroads” is a lecture series sponsored by the Department of Religious Studies that aims to foster conversations about the academic study of religion across Elon’s campus.
Sponsored by the Department of Religious Studies and Department of Performing Arts with support from the Truitt Center for Religious and Spiritual Life and PERCS (the Program for Ethnographic Research and Community Studies)