Feb 19-25 . The Moving Toward Health Project
Using Dance to Talk About Health:
Body Image, Healthy Lifestyle and Eating Disorders Education through Movement
The Moving Toward Health Project
Moving Toward Health (MTH) is a program encompassing performances, workshops, lectures, and forums that was designed by CORE Performance Company and The University of Central Arkansas College of Fine Arts and Communication Artists in Residence Program. MTH will engage the Conway community in addressing the issues surrounding eating disorders, body image and healthy lifestyles and will raise awareness of the arts’ ability to engender communication and to facilitate change in the context of social issues. MTH will take place February 20-24, 2012, leading up to National Eating Disorders Awareness Week.
These events are all free and open to the public.
For more information, please contact Dr. Gayle Seymour at 501-450-3293 or gayles@uca.edu.
Performances on the UCA campus
CORE Performance Company offers four, free public performances to the UCA and Conway community of a specially-commissioned dance for MTH, Body as Image. CORE dancers will perform within the Baum Gallery exhibition of photographic portraits by UCA Department of Art Professor Donna Pinckley, images in which the subject’s true nature is revealed, speaking to MTH’s goal of encouraging self-awareness and self-acceptance.
Thursday, February 23rd, 2012
5pm, 5:30pm, 6pm and 6:30pm
at the Baum Gallery, McCastlain Hall, UCA
Forums and Lectures all around Conway
Art-Making from a Social Platform
Using MTH as a frame, CORE Artistic Director, Sue Schroeder and members of CORE Performance Company will engage with regional artists and the general public in an exploration of CORE’s process of art-making within a social context.
Tuesday, February 21 at 7pm
at the Faulkner County Library, 1900 Tyler Street
The Myth of ‘The Freshman 15’: Staying Healthy and Sane in College Amidst New Food and Body Pressures
Dr. Zeckhausen, founder of the Eating Disorders Information Network, will address the unique qualities of college life that contribute to dieting, binge eating, and eating disorders. Using stories from her therapy patients, Dr. Zeckhausen will help us understand how to negotiate the many pressures and stresses related to college life. We will be empowered with information that will help us find the right balance between the needs of our head, our heart, and our gut.
Wednesday, February 22nd
7pm at the UCA Student Center, Room 215
Body As Image Open Rehearsal
CORE Performance Company conducts an open rehearsal with Q&A during X-period.
Thursday, February 23rd at 1:40-2:30 p.m.
at the Baum Gallery, McCastlain Hall, UCA
Using Art to Talk about Health
With project partners and other interested shareholders, this forum will assess the development and outcomes of The MTH Project.
Friday, February 24 at 3:30pm
at the Baum Gallery, McCastlain Hall, UCA
These events are all free and open to the public.
For more information, please contact Dr. Gayle Seymour
501-450-3293, gayles@uca.edu.
Performances in the Conway Public School System
CORE Performance Company returns to the Conway Public Schools (CPS) with The Heart of the Matter, a new narrated dance performance developed to encourage children’s self-awareness and positive body image. The Heart of the Matter was inspired by the book Full Mouse, Empty Mouse by Dr. Dina Zeckhausen. Free shows will be performed the week of February 20, 2012 for the 3rd and 4th grade students in the CPS district elementary schools. (Not open to the public.)
The MTH project is funded by:
Mid-America Arts Alliance Regional Touring Program
“This presentation is supported by Mid-America Arts Alliance with generous underwriting by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Arkansas Arts Council, and foundations, corporations and individuals throughout Arkansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Texas.”
Alternate ROOTS Tour and Residency Program
“This project is made possible by funding from Alternate ROOTS and the Ford Foundation through the ROOTS Tour & Residency Program.
Arkansas Arts Council Arts in Education Mini-Grant
UCA Center for Community and Economic Development
UCA Arts Fee through the Artists in Residence Program
UCA Office of Student Services
UCA Office of Sponsored Programs
UCA Student Dietetic Association
Faulkner County Healthy Weight Coalition
Conway Public Schools
MTH project partners include:
Conway Alliance for the Arts
UCA Department of Family and Consumer Sciences, Dietetics and Nutrition program
Conway Public School District
Faulkner County Healthy Weight Coalition
Blackbird Academy of the Arts
UCA Department of Mass Communication and Theater
UCA College of Fine Arts and Communication
UCA Department of Psychology
Conway Regional Health and Fitness Center
Hendrix College Department of Kinesiology
UCA Counseling Center
UCA Department of Health Sciences
UCA Baum Gallery
