10 Questions: What is Failure?
The KCET 10 Questions publication series is a collaboration with the UCLA Arts 10 Questions event series, an interdisciplinary course/public event series featuring conversations with leading scholars that provides both students and the public a special opportunity to experience the conversations that drive innovation at the university.
Every Tuesday for ten weeks, UCLA faculty members from disciplines as diverse as dance, medicine, photography, astrophysics, athletics, Chicana and Chicano studies, law, philosophy and religious studies will join UCLA Arts Dean Brett Steele to explore a fundamental question such as: What is space? What is failure? and What is freedom? The goal is to stimulate dialogue and exchange, and to seed a greater understanding of the profoundly interdisciplinary nature of knowledge production in the 21st century. We present a discussion primer for each week's session to get the conversation started.
This week, David Gere, Valorie Kondos Field, Janet O'Shea and Lorrie Frasure-Yokley will join Brett Steele, dean of the UCLA School of the Arts & Architecture to explore the question, "What is Failure"
Professor in the Department of World Arts & Cultures/DanceDavid Gere, Ph.D., serves as director of the UCLA Art & Global Health Center and is a professor in the Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance, where he teaches courses in arts activism. His book, "How to Make Dances in an Epidemic: Tracking Choreography in the Age of AIDS" (University of Wisconsin Press) received the award for outstanding book publication from the Congress on Research in Dance. Gere has co-authored numerous public health journal articles addressing arts-based health interventions. And he has co-curated a trilogy of AIDS exhibitions: MAKE ART/STOP AIDS (2008), The A.R.T. Show (2011) and Through Positive Eyes (2016), set to tour the United States starting in 2019. |
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Head Coach, UCLA GymnasticsUCLA alumna Valorie Kondos Field is the head coach of the UCLA Gymnastics Team, which she has positioned as one of the premier programs in collegiate gymnastics with seven NCAA championships. Not only has she consistently recruited and coached some of the top talent in the world, but she has produced the results, totaling over 500 career regular season victories in her 28-year career. |
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Professor in the Department of World Arts and Cultures/DanceJanet O’Shea is author of "Risk, Failure, Play: What Dance Reveals about Martial Arts Training" (2018, Oxford University Press) and "At Home in the World: Bharata Natyam on the Global Stage" (2007, Wesleyan University Press). Recipient ofa UCLA Transdisciplinary Seed Grant to study the cognitive benefits of Filipino Martial Arts training, she gave a TEDx Talkon competitive play and has offered keynote presentations at the Martial Arts Studies conference and Dance/Performance in Interdisciplinary Perspective Symposium. Her essays have been published in five languages and seven countries. She is professor of World Arts and Cultures/Dance at UCLA. |
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Associate Professor in the Departments of Political Science and African American StudiesPolitical Science Associate Professor Lorrie Frasure-Yokely is a scholar of racial and ethnic politics. In 2015, she became the first woman of color to earn tenure and promotion in the Political Science Department at UCLA. Her research interests include racial and ethnic political behavior, immigrant political incorporation, African American politics, women and politics, and state and local politics. |
— Nov. 1, 2018
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Art&Arc100: 10 Questions sessions will be held on Tuesdays through December 4 from 6:30-8:30 p.m. in the Glorya Kaufman Hall theater (room 200). Free and open to the public (RSVP required). Pay by space parking available on campus adjacent to Kaufman Hall (Structure 4).
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