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Lida Winfield is an innovative and accomplished dancer, choreographer, spoken word artist and educator.
She believes that our bodies carry wisdom, history and stories. Through movement we are granted the opportunity to actively engage with that wisdom and history from a new perspective. Learn more on her website at www.lidawinfield.com.
[…] Lida Winfield spoke to us for a second time. In 2018, we discussed Winfield’s choreography and her role as an educator among other things. When the pandemic began, she was teaching at Middlebury College. She calls it an amazing moment of events. At the time, Winfield was in the process of creating a five person collaborative piece with other artists in residence where she was. As they were getting ready to open, Winfield got word that her father had been hospitalized with presumptive COVID. By the time she returned to campus she discovered that it had been shut down and her collaborators had to leave. Shortly after, her father died from COVID-19 after spending several weeks in ICU. This experience drove home that while this is a global event, affecting everyone on a different level, it is also an extremely personal one. To hear how Winfield carried on after this heartbreaking turn of events – and how it gave her perspective on the difficulties of online teaching and why this safety measure is so critical – and to hear about her work and how to access it online, listen to the complete interview. […]
[…] Lida Winfield spoke to us for a second time. In 2018, we discussed Winfield’s choreography and her role as an educator among other things. When the pandemic began, she was teaching at Middlebury College. She calls it an amazing moment of events. At the time, Winfield was in the process of creating a five person collaborative piece with other artists in residence where she was. As they were getting ready to open, Winfield got word that her father had been hospitalized with presumptive COVID. By the time she returned to campus she discovered that it had been shut down and her collaborators had to leave. Shortly after, her father died from COVID-19 after spending several weeks in ICU. This experience drove home that while this is a global event, affecting everyone on a different level, it is also an extremely personal one. To hear how Winfield carried on after this heartbreaking turn of events – and how it gave her perspective on the difficulties of online teaching and why this safety measure is so critical – and to hear about her work and how to access it online, listen to the complete interview. […]