Collaboration with Atlanta Science Festival 2020 & Emory University

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What animal left those tracks in the mud outside your backdoor, or next to the stream where you walk your dog? Atlanta may be a large urban city, but more than just people and their pets live among us. What stories can we tell from animal tracks once we understand how to identify and interpret them? This fun interactive workshop teaches participants about some of Atlanta’s wild animals how to recognize and interpret their tracks and sign, while using improvisational movement and storytelling. (This was our ASF teaser)

Dear Readers! 
Forgive me for posting this announcement here of my CANCELLED (sigh) collaborative workshop with the Atlanta Festival and two Emory University professors - Tony Martin from the Department of Environmental Sciences and Lori Teague from the Emory Dance Department. Our dream workshop that we had been brewing up for the past several years was cancelled because of the 2020 Pandemic. However, I couldn't resist sharing our flyer, teaser and workshop description here on my InterPlay blog.

Tracking and Embodying Atlanta’s Animals
This interactive workshop engages participants in improvisational movement and storytelling while they learn about tracks, sign, and sound of urban Atlanta animals – raccoons, coyotes, deer, herons and frogs. We explore how we humans walk and then change perspectives to look at how animals walk, trot, and gallop. What is instinctual or intentional? What is habit? How do we identify with our own gate? How do we create pathways in space? What stories do these trails tell us?  Through the unique combination of science, dance, and improvisational storytelling of InterPlay, we will all learn and feel more connected to the animals who live in the woods and streams beyond our streets. (This was our ASF description.)

I'm such a big fan of the Atlanta Science Festival and have offered InterPlay workshops consistently for five years (Can I count 2020 since it got cancelled?).

Visit these blogs to see what Tony Martin (my science collaborator) and I have offered to our Atlanta community:



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