GUEST LECTURER + ARTIST IN RESIDENCY - GRINNELL COLLEGE, IOWA (2018)

Guest Lecturer + Artist in Residency, department of Theater and Dance, Grinnell College, Iowa. Commissioned to create STRANGER THINGS; AN IMMIGRANT STORY YOU DO NOT SEE ON TV! April, 2018.

Stranger Things: An Immigrant Story You Do Not See On TV!

Guest choreographer Mersiha Mesihovic's contribution to the triptych is "Stranger Things: An Immigrant Story You Do Not See On TV!"

Mesihovic's choreographic residency to create "Stranger Things" is made possible through the Strive Fund, which supports a five-week residency every spring for an international guest choreographer to create original work with Grinnell students. Mesihovic is a Bosnian/Swedish NYC- based dance/performance artist and cultural organizer.  

She worked with her cast of five Grinnell students to create a visual movement journey into the complexities of a refugee/immigrant reality, acknowledging the entanglement and impossibility of separation from one another in spite of our geographical and physical differences.  The dance unfolds as a collective re-imagining of the current world to a better, gentler place to exist together. "Stranger Things" was created using Mesihovic's interdisciplinary performance making approach that utilizes intersectional story-telling methods. - Grinnell.edu