Sedona Arts Center — REGISTER TODAY: Vision and Sound Symposium

VISION & SOUND SYMPOSIUM FEB 8, 2025

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ART & NATION
Vision and Sound Symposium
February 8, 2025

Sedona Arts Center, 15 Art Barn Road, Sedona, AZ 86336

Featuring keynote speaker and renowned dancer, choreographer and scholar LaTasha Barnes as well as panel discussions, performances, receptions and reflections.

Free event parking is located behind Sedona Arts Center’s Art Barn.

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Multi-Bessie award winner (2021/2023), and New York Times celebrated Best Dance & Breakout Star (2021) LaTasha Barnes is an internationally awarded and critically-acclaimed dance artist, choreographer, scholar, and tradition-bearer of Black American Social Dance co-based in Phoenix, AZ and New York. A Richmond, VA native, she is globally celebrated for her musicality, athleticism, and joyful presence throughout the cultural traditions she bears: House Dance, Hip-Hop, Waacking, Authentic Jazz, and Lindy Hop, among them. Barnes’ expansive artistic, competitive, and performative skills have made her a frequent collaborator to The Kennedy Center for The Performing Arts, Summer Dance Forever & Foundation Hip-Hop Center Amsterdam, Singapore-based Timbre Arts Group, Ephrat Asherie Dance, and many more.

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Liz Lerman is a choreographer, writer, and educator, and the recipient of a 2023 Guggenheim Fellowship, the 2017 Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award, and the 2002 MacArthur “Genius Grant” Award. Current projects include building the Atlas of Creative Tools, an online resource, her touring production of Wicked Bodies, and a new project, Legacy Unboxed, that includes a series of research performance events called My Body is a Library. Also coming soon is a collection of essays to be published by Wesleyan University Press. Liz founded and led Dance Exchange from 1976 until 2011. She is the author of Teaching Dance to Senior Adults, Hiking the Horizontal, and Critique is Creative, co-authored with John Borstel. Liz’s retrospective titled Brett Cook & Liz Lerman: Reflection & Action was featured at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts from October 2022 until June 2023. She is currently an Institute Professor at ASU’s Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts and a fellow at the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy.

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Anjola Ayodele, Patricia Bohannon, Dorrell Bradford, Antoinette Cauley, Jacqueline Chanda, Michael Cunningham, Lizz Denneau, Amber Doe, Debra Edgerton, Chas Frisco, Isse Maloi, Bob Martin, Philip Gabriel Steverson, George Welch, Shoreigh Williams

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Vision & Sound 2025 is sponsored by:
Sedona Arts Center, ASU Center for the Study of Race and Democracy, Flagstar Foundation, City of Goodyear, Arizona Community Foundation of Sedona, Best Western Plus Arroyo Roble Hotel & Creekside Villas, The City of Peoria, City of Tolleson, Kling Family Foundation, Arizona Commission on the Arts

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Our mission is to connect, enrich, educate and lead through the inspiring power of the arts and creative discovery.

Sedona Arts Center is one of Northern Arizona’s most well-established cultural organizations and serves as the creative heart of Sedona. Founded in 1958, the nonprofit is based in Uptown Sedona and offers year-round classes, exhibitions, festivals, and cultural events that enhance the creative life of the Verde Valley.

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