Through careful study and replication of an individual’s speech and gestural patterns, verbatim performance can cultivate empathy and disrupt assumptions and biases across a spectrum of political, cultural, and social experiences. This embodied exploration of difference—“breathing as another person”—utilizes arts-based research as a way to better understand our troubling times. Original media artifacts and curricula using these techniques and inspired by recent events will be presented.

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