Witness what happens when Yale Dance Lab in partnership with the Yale Schwarzman Center invites 16 choreographers to create digital dance poems, performed by dancers from across the Yale community. Knitting together local, national, and international communities of dance, Transpositions: Dance Poems for an Online World explores the continuous and interrupted transmission of embodied dance practices in digital life. Edited by by Kyla Arsadjaja MFA ‘20, the concept and direction of this episode is by Aki Sasamoto.

Join us for a discussion with Diego Tituaña, Kichwa Otavalo, a diplomat in the Ecuadorian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and 2019 World Fellow. Diego will discuss the current issues, and topics their community faces today. As well as highlight the many ways their community expresses their identities through various mediums in an ever changing world. This event is also a part of the course “Indigenous Cultures in a Global Context,” being offered spring 2021.

If you’ve never tried origami, please join the Office of International Students & Scholars for a special virtual workshop where we will teach you the basics and learn how to make a beautiful paper tulip!
Origami is composed of the Japanese words oru (to fold) and kami (paper), and has a rich and complex history. This 45 minute workshop will be led by Yuko Amikra, one of our active ISPY members from Japan, who will walk us through some history of origami and show us step-by-step how to make a lovely spring inspired tulip (designed credit: Kunihiko Kasahara).

Trans Visibility Series - Transgender Musician Spotlight

Few physicians or patients have not been affected by the sudden expansion of telemedicine in the past year, which ballooned into mainstream clinical practice in 2020 as a technological patch laid over the holes in healthcare access caused by the upheaval of the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet even though telemedicine may feel like an useful if uncomfortably new medium to most practitioners or patients today, the theory and practice of this “medicine at a distance” were laid out more than five decades ago.