Batson is guest artist at Illinois dance festival

Charles Batson, assistant professor of French, recently was guest artist at the University of Illinois-Champaign, where he performed at Festival Dance at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. He worked with choreographer Cynthia Pipkin-Doyle to dance in  "L'Apparence," a  piece involving Baroque and modern movement and French declamation. While in Champaign, he gave a talk sponsored by the Department of French, the Department of Comparative Literatures, and the School of Music, titled "Panique celtique, or Fest-noz in Paname: Manau, Celtic Rap, and Breton Cultural Expression."