Jodi James
jodi.james@asu.edu
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Lecturer, Dance
Computation & Digital Media
Jodi James is an artist and a scientist. She has experienced weightlessness in the vomit comet and has danced in the Opening Ceremonies of the 2002 Salt Lake Winter Olympic Games.
Ms. James attempts to bridge the diverse disciplines of dance and science through her teaching and research. She believes that movement is personally meaningful and that engaging in and embracing our expressive physicality is a primordial human right. This belief strongly influences her contributions to the mediated environments that are the capstone of AME research. In collaboration with other AME faculty, her work attempts to analyze, understand, recognize, and integrate both the qualitative and quantitative aspects of expressive movement. The perception, comprehension and recognition of the language of movement provide the framework and impetus for AME’s immersive, interactive, and experiential environments. These environments utilize and challenge human movement potential as a means of creating and making art, learning and being.
Ms. Jones is an active choreographer and researcher, teaches classes and workshops in dance, LMA and related somatic practices. Her work in the hybridization of dance and science is changing the way we perceive and experience these forms.
Ms. James received a BA in Dance Performance/Choreography and a BS in Engineering/physics from Hope College in Holland, MI. She earned a MA in Dance Kinesiology from the University of Utah. She is also a Certified Laban Movement Analyst (CLMA).
