Background:

Using examples from personal experience, Robertson will conduct a multifaceted presentation reflecting on the above questions.  Lessons with Japanese artists, trained in the traditional iemoto system of teacher-student relationships, provide access not only to the final product of a composition, but also to deeply embodied concepts of gender, cultured space and formal relationships.  Similarly, in the Western arts, embodied knowledge is passed from teacher to student in an oral-kinesthetic pedagogy.  This demonstration will illustrate how the academic classroom – from music history to theory and world music – might capitalize on “doing” as suggested by three centuries-old traditions.

Robertson studies intersections between music and movement, particularly in 20^th century North American and Latin American musics with dance.

For more information, please contact the GW Department of Music at (202) 994-6245.

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