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Together with the Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance (WACD), the Semel
Healthy Campus Initiative (SHCI) MoveWell Pod is pleased to featureWACD Professor
Janet O’Shea at its January 29th event on her newest work Risk, Failure, Play: What
Dance Reveals About Martial Arts Training (Oxford University Press). The book suggests
that play gives us the ability to manage difficult realities with intelligence and that
physical play, with its immediacy and its heightened risk, is particularly effective at
accomplishing this task. "Risk, Failure, Play” demonstrates the many ways in which
physical recreation allows us to manage the complexities of our current social
reality. There will be a brief lecture followed by an Empowerment Self-Defense
Workshop which is open to everyone regardless of ability. Reception and meet/greet the
author and MoveWell Pod members will follow the workshop.