Ep 23: What can dance and performance teach us about lockdown drills?

Host: David Riedman, creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database

Guest: Shannon Woods, Ph.D. Candidate, Performance as Public Practice, University of Texas at Austin

Papers:

• The Threat Is Now: Choreography, Temporality, and the Active Shooter Drill

• Drilled Choreographies: Interventions on Preparing for the Active Shooter

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David Riedman is the creator of the K-12 School Shooting Database, Chief Data Officer at a global risk management firm, and a tenure-track professor. Listen to my weekly podcast—Back to School Shootings—or my recent interviews on Freakonomics Radio, New England Journal of Medicine, and my article on CNN about AI and school security.