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Interdisciplinary artist Dawn Kasper (Whitney Biennial 2012) leads an interactive performance workshop exploring our physical and psychic engagement with space, time, movement, sound, objects, and states of mind. Artists of all disciplines are encouraged to participate. Performance; All Levels.
Learn moreLos Angeles-based choreographer Milka Djordjevich asks us to abandon ‘neutrality’ and uncover our bodies’ ingrained knowledge and history. By using sensorial, perceptual, anatomical, spatial, behavioral and imaginative pathways, we will transform our individual movement patterning; play with technical structures, improvisational concepts, and choreographic frameworks; and rock out to some sweet jams. Movement; All Levels.
Learn moreThe Bay Area’s legendary boundary-breaker Fauxnique (the drag queen alter-ego of artist/choreographer/dancer Monique Jenkinson) leads an expedition through layers of femme artifice and authenticity. We will rigorously honor practices of drag tradition and boldly expand definitions of drag performance. Be prepared to move and WERQ! Performance; All Levels.
Learn moreJoin PDX stand out performer Isaiah "Esquire" Tillman and Vogue dancer David (Dee) Yu as they teach a vogue and dance class to get you ready to serve and twirl on the runway. This class is for any level, but come ready to sweat, prance and LIVE! Performance; All Levels
Learn moreMorocco-based choreographer Meryem Jazouli offers a workshop for contemporary dancers that proposes shared time and space to discover the realm where the poetic and vulnerable coincide. The class will start off with a warmup to activate the senses, followed by a dance Jazouli will share that each person will experience and personalize while imparting it with a unique meaning.
Learn moreWE ARE THE INSTITUTION: after inside/outside there is this mass of people. We are already whole. We're all here together. Administrators need to be involved in the uselessness of practice. Beyond outcome and object, there is a culture of questions, a pursuit of pleasure, an acceptance of our inevitable wasting. This workshop will create a non-utilitarian space for the human basis of art. Though open to all, this workshop is designed for art’s administrators and artists working in concert in the hot bed of the studio. Come, be useless, be pleasure, be awkward, be sincere, be wasted.
Learn moreIn their individual and collaborative work, Hilary Clark and Luke George share an investigation into the ways we exist, move, relate, and experience ourselves and one another, and how that translates into presence and performance. In this workshop, we will consider how to develop tools, methods and questions for ourselves towards openness, vulnerability, rebellion, ability and perceived lack of ability, and about how being a performer is also being a maker and an audience. The workshop will include improvisation as a practice and tool to know our bodies while generating energy and depth.
Learn moreJoin the community choir! Singer, composer and performing artist Holcombe Waller will lead warm up and rehearsal for a working excerpt from his new project, LGBT Requiem Mass. This full-body chorale music workshop will include writing, improvisation, and discussion to explore the convergence of LGBT voice, song, community and the legacy and shadow of Christian liturgical and spiritual music. Amateur and professional singers, sight-readers and ear-exclusive learners all welcome. Wear comfortable clothes you can move in.
Learn moreIn this workshop we will use movement to reveal the connection between how we feel, how we think and how we act. We will practice enacting one-on-one performances that travels through public space. As performers’ our score is to be present. Like a therapist, we will attempt to meet our audience’s tone, energetically and physically. This non-verbal experience will challenge both the audience and performer to navigate the city through feeling and curiosity. Using this practice as point of departure we will initiate conversations that reflect on movement, behavior and transformation.
Learn moreSouth African dancer and choreographer Mamela Nyamza uses dance to access the deepest layers of the body, such as emotions, fears, and expectations. During this masterclass, she draws inspiration from the participants, working from the inside to the outside, guided by her and the participants' inner feelings. Part of the masterclass will be working with empty Cola cans, so every participant is asked to bring two cans. 2 hours, Intermediate/Advanced, Performance/Movement
Learn moreAlgerian choreographer Nacera Belaza will share exercises that seek movements from within the self but remain neutral and open to the space around the body. The exercises propose a free and open movement that feels out the space, seizing it and investing it with action.
Learn moreChoreographer Miguel Gutierrez will lead a unique walk through the world, guiding participants to awaken, explore, and illuminate their senses of the world around them.
Learn moreTools and tactics for dancing and performance, which may or may not include: doing movements, imagining doing movements, rolling on the floor, touching each other, talking, screaming, seeing, and being seen. Participants will access and build a sense of awareness, presence, decision making, quality, and imagination.
Learn moreHolmes will combine applications of Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen’s Body-Mind Centering, Steve Paxton’s Contact Improvisation, and improvisational approaches in solo, duet, and ensemble dancing.
Learn moreTBA:12 artist (and Field Guide “faculty”) Keith Hennessy will lead a workshop for dancers, choreographers, and body and conceptual artists, re-imagining social relations through performance, improvisation, dance, and embodied action.
Learn moreA physically rigorous but also gentle and slow workshop for anyone with an interest in the body. Come prepared to strut, drool, dance, nap, dream, tantrum, pray, sweat, seduce, and soar.
Learn moreAn accessible workshop with members of Circo Zero, exploring improvisation and movement techniques.
Learn moreCompany members from Gob Squad lead a performance workshop right in the set of Gob Squad’s Kitchen, exploring their unique blend of theater and real life.
Learn moreA workshop led by cheltfisch’s award-winning director and playwright, Toshiki Okada, known for his stylized hybrids of oddly humorous text, distinctive lighting, and idiosyncratic movement.
Learn moreDance with members of Keith Hennessy’s Turbulence cast, exploring improvisation and circus skills.
Learn moreWorking from the proposition that dance is a mode of perceptual inquiry, students will be led through explorations that prioritize sensation and non-rational action and trigger automatic, unprepared physical response.
Learn moreBy using imagination and a sense of absence and presence, butoh invites a constant transformation to your body.
Learn moreA class that incorporates contemporary dance technique, composition, and improvisation, as well as repertory material from the company’s acclaimed Home Made.
Learn moreZoe Scofield offers a rigorous, deep, and intellectually challenging class including set exercises and structured improvisation inspired by Ashtanga Yoga, Gaga Gyrokenesis, and contemporary ballet.
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