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Griot Spring Series - Boris Willis: Creating Interactive Digital Black Experiences
March 30, 2022
7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Elaine Langone Center, 272 - Forum
Boris Willis
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As a guest in the 2022 Spring Series, Technologies of Disruption: Aesthetics, Innovations, and Narratives of Blackness, the Griot Institute welcomes Boris Willis, Dance Artist, Founder of Black Russian Games, Chief Artistic Officer of Boris Willis Moves, and Associate Professor of Computer Game Design at George Mason University. Willis has performed with Streb, Jacob’s Pillow’s Men Dancers, Liz Lerman/ Dance Exchange and has had various roles with Company E. He is the founder of the dance video blog danceaday.com.
Willis has an MFA in Dance and Technology from The Ohio State University, a BFA in Dance from George Mason University and is a graduate of The NC School of the Arts. He is the recipient of a Kennedy Center Local Dance Commission, a Virginia Commission for the Arts Choreography Fellowship, and was an Artist in Residence at the Watermill Center.
Recent Radio Interview: https://www.withgoodreasonradio.org/episode/the-wide-world-of-video-games/?t=423&autoplay=1#s423
Those unable to attend in person may join via Zoom: https://bucknell.zoom.us/j/96588293899?pwd=R0wxNzhibjdSSkswZkVLUWNjWnoxdz09
This event is co-sponsored by the Department of Theatre and Dance.
The 2022 Griot Spring Series is generously co-sponsored by the Freeman College of Management, the College of Engineering, the L.E.A.D. Engineer speaker series, the Provost’s Office/Office of Equity and Inclusive Excellence, Comparative & Digital Humanities, and Library & IT, and funding is provided by the University Lectureship Committee.
* If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to any griot Spring Series event, please contact the Griot Institute at 570-577-2123 or griot@bucknell.edu at least 5 business days in advance of the event.
Tags: College of Arts & Sciences, Griot Spring Series
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