Goddesses, Demons, and Media Priestesses: Innovations in Screendance: Experiential Lecture

Goddesses, Demons, and Media Priestesses: Innovations in Screen-Dance Inspired by Ancient Mother Goddesses and Female Demons

Experiential Lecture by Dr Lila Moore

Tuesday April 29 10:45 – 11:30 am Mountain  Day Time 9:45- 10:30 PM BST

Presented as part of the online symposium Wisdom of the Mothers: Celebrating Matriarchal and Matrilineal Wisdom Traditions, 28–29 April.

This audio-visual lecture explores how mythical goddesses and female demons—such as Isis, Gaia, Binah, Lilith, Medusa, Erzulie and Hecate—function metaphorically and aesthetically as 'mothers' of artistic dance and screendance forms.

Drawing on practice-based research, it features pioneering women like Ruth St Denis, Maya Deren and Jean Erdman and contemporary technoetic media priestesses specifically Psyence (Maro) Vedava and Lila Moore who work with dance, film, screendance, and screen technologies to invoke feminine archetypes in the technosphere in times of ecological crisis in the biosphere.

Accompanied by guided and embodied reflection, immersive artworks, and video clips, the lecture offers a journey through myth, embodiment, and innovations in screen-dance media.

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