DESCRIPTION: Here’s the class format:
Time to arrive. Five-ish minutes SHAKE. One s l o w (even slower) walk across the room. Non-stopping practice. Open score. (subject to change! it’s improvisation)
Each week, I will introduce questions, concepts, and/or conflicts to guide our attention and train our choreographic minds. I’m pulling together improvisational, task-ish, practices I’ve learned and gathered in the past years. Ones that have re-shaped me enough that I kept doing them on my own after the class/workshop/intensive was over. Namely, I draw from Jared Williams and Anya Smolnikova’s shake format, Ryuta Iwashita and Jeanine Durning's stream of conscious type practices, Heidi Henderson’s slow walking, and Julianna May’s Choreographic Idioms class.
This is a laboratory where we embrace not-knowing-what’s-going-to-happen. We aim toward trusting the velocity of our minds and allowing the impulses of our bodies. Let’s be wrong and bad and dance.?
LEVEL: Intermediate- some skill in improvisation and durational practice will be incredibly supportive to this class, whether in dance, theatre, music or a different creative discipline.
PAYMENT: Classes are pay-what-you-can, $15-$20 suggested!
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