Jane Manwelyan (she/her) is a director, choreographer, and planning practitioner who arrived in the US from Russia at the age of six. She is the founder of Eco Practicum desk-free school for arts and ecology, founding faculty of School of Apocalypse, and a member of numerous collectives and working groups including Bodies Intersect Buildings, Choreographies for Survival, and how to perform an abortion. As a visiting faculty at Columbia University, Jane has worked on environmental planning and arts projects in the New York bioregion as well as India, Vietnam, and Jordan. Jane spearheaded a youth theater project in Israel and Palestine that is now in its tenth year. She was a recent SU CASA fellow and her work has been supported by NYSCA, LMCC, Pioneer Works, Columbia University and shared at venues including the Martha Graham Dance Studio, New Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and AIR Gallery. She holds a BA in International Development from McGill University and her MS in Urban Planning from Columbia University.
SoA examines connections between creative practice and notions of survival. In light of growing cultural, ecological and technological phenomena that challenge basic assumptions about human existence, SoA offers courses and programming that seek to develop new modes of inquiry and apply broader levels of experience to intellectual investigation.
www.schoolofapocalypse.org
Immersions and workshops for ecological justice.
www.ecopracticum.com
Designing creative interventions, abortion clinic waiting rooms, and abortion herb gardens to support reproductive self-determination.
www.howtoperformanabortion.com
A family-based art collective that creates art and performance through intimate encounters, adaptive reuse, and place-making. In partnership with Tal Beery.