“We will be moving!” Meredith Haggerty promises of Saturday’s workshop at the Hyde Park Art Center, entitled “How We Move.” “There will be dancing, breaking, improv, clapping, we’ll be breathing and resting as well!” As part of Hyde Park’s series “Pedagogical Factory: Exploring Strategies for an Educated City,” the meeting will focus on the relationship between movement, politics and education, and was organized by the University of Hip Hop, dedicated to the effect movement can have on community. Haggerty, who studied with the University of Hip Hop, says her own experience not only with hip hop, but with yoga, somatics, performance art, NIA, as well as her studies for a MFA at the University of Chicago, have shown her the connections between “social movements and the movement of the body.” “I start to listen to what is around me and notice that I am an integral part of what happens…This realization often either literally or metaphorically creates options, which are quite empowering things.”
