Jacqueline Lo is the Head of the School of Cultural Inquiry in the Research School of Humanities and the Arts. Her talk will centre on a four-minute video about 'In Repose', a dance-ritual performance by Japanese-Australian artists to honour early Japanese sojourners and their relations with northern Australian indigenous communities.

 

Padma Menon is an established dancer, choreographer and teacher. In 2008 Padma founded the Mudra Centre for Dance in Canberra. In her presentation she will examine dance’s potential to affect change beyond its generally accepted therapeutic capabilities in areas such as social justice and politics.

 

Francis Owusu is the Founding Director of Kulture Break, a not-for-profit charity dance organisation. Using a  short video about the impact hip-hop dance is having in Canberra, he will focus on how modern forms of dance such as hip-hop shape identity and social outlook in a western culture.