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Before Utterance

Instructor: Emily Wexler
This course seeks to discover commonalities between pre-semiotic compositional methods of contemporary dance and poetry with each student creating a body of work which includes both forms.


The students:
Emily Bernard
Coralyn Jones
Ira Lindsay
Luisa Lynch
Rachel Orji
Kati Payne
Mik Phillips
Javares Selby
Isabella Smalkais
Graziella Spina
Lex Vautrin
November Ward
Harlie Yahn



Emily Bernard: engravings to feel



Ira Lindsay: upRooted / Performed by Nailah Morsell



Luisa Lynch: Subsidence


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Rachel Orji’s project
Unanticipated Anomaly





Kati Payne: The Swimmer 
and 

Click here to read The Swimmer





Mik Phillips * Trigger Warning of Flashing Lights



Javares Selby: Vanilla Bean Baby

Click the links below to enter Javares Selby’s poetry archive

[ Feelings of a Black Canvas ]

[ Rainy Days ]

[ F*ck You, You Don’t Own Me ]

[ I Wish a B*tch Would ]





Isabella Smalkais: I Care



Lex Vautrin: peanut butter [curtains]



November Ward: Textbook