SPLICE Festival VII 2026 Lectures 1
Friday March 6, 2026
10:00-11:30pm EDT
Room 120 (Arts Incubator), Colby College
Molly W. Schenck
Expanding the Circle: Technology as a spark for artists, audiences, and communities
This lecture explores a creative practice built on using technology to widen opportunities for connection. Whether it is between artists across disciplines, between creatives and audiences, or within communities of all ages and abilities, technology can be the bridge. This talk will focus on how technology can serve a common goal of creating more entry points for people to connect with ephemeral performances, with each other, and with their own embodied experience as creators, witnesses or participants.
Nora Gibson
Integrating Dance and Technology
In this lecture, I’ll walk through the creation and performance of the volumetric capture projection component of SHIFT.
Everett Perry-Johnson
10's Across the Board!: Movement Creations Using the Art of Vogue
This engaging session introduces the foundational movements of Vogue while highlighting its roots in Black and Latinx LGBTQ+ Ballroom Culture. Participants will learn core elements, collaborate on short choreographic sequences, and experience how Vogue functions as a powerful form of expression, identity, and community celebration.
Bios
Molly W. Schenck (MFA, MEd) is a multi-disciplinary artist and somatic practitioner fascinated by human movement and what interrupts its full expression. Her performance work moves fluidly between dance, theater, film, and visual art. Her performance work has been featured in venues such as the Tuscon Fringe Festival, Boulder Fringe Festival, and multiple events and venues within the Phoenix Metropolitan Area. Additionally, her film and photography work has been on exhibition in New Zealand and the Netherlands. She also specializes in the intersection of creativity and trauma. She is the author of Trauma-Informed Teaching Practices for Dance Educators and has presented workshops and trainings for individuals, organizations, and arts leaders locally, nationally, and internationally - including San Francisco Opera, Actors Equity Association, and the Association of Theatre Movement Educators. In 2016, she founded Grey Box Collective, an arts organization that makes weird art about tough stuff, where she currently serves as Director and Creative Producer. Schenck holds a BA in Theater and an M. Ed. in Higher Education from the University of Maine and an MFA in Dance from Arizona State University. For more information, visit mollywschenck.com.
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Nora Gibson is a dance technologist with a research focus on consciousness, embodiment, and artificial intelligence. Her materials are the body and its physiological data, merging scientific and philosophical inquiry with poetic use of technology. Her choreography has been presented by institutions including Joyce SOHO, Dance Place, Performance Garage, and Kaatsbaan, while her interactive and installation works have appeared at international venues such as MUTEK, Ars Electronica, The Istanbul Digital Art Festival, Jacob’s Pillow, and The Society for Arts and Technology (SAT). Gibson holds a BFA in Dance from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and an MFA in Intermedia from Concordia University. Her work has further been supported through an internship with the BIAPT neuroscience lab at McGill University. Gibson teaches ballet, composition, research-creation practices, and dance & technology.
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Everett Perry-Johnson holds an MFA in Dance and Choreography from NYU Tisch Dance and a BA in Dance Performance from Winthrop University. He is an Instructional Assistant Professor at Texas A&M University and a multi-hyphenate artist whose Contemporary Fusion workshops have been featured nationally and internationally. His choreography has appeared at The Ailey CitiGroup Theater, Manhattan Movement Arts Center, and Charlotte Dance Festival. As a narrative based choreographer, Mr. Perry-Johnson’s work centers on LGBTQIA+ and POC identities, faith intersections, and HIV/AIDS activism in Black and Latinx communities.
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