12:00pm - 12:45pm: opening session

Subject: How I Move: An exploration in Identity, Poetry and Dance/Movement

Facilitator: Ché Ture

This interactive workshop examines, physically and theoretically, the idea of movement. Inspired by the work of Marc Bamuthi Joseph and his signature practice of integrating text and movement, “How I Move” begins with a poetry  exercise that leads into explorative dance and concludes with an open discussion. Together we will engage the ways our individual identities relate to the “dancer” identity. Who are you when you dance? / Suggested reading: Who Am I Where? by Rebecca Solnit

1:00pm - 2:20pm: session 1

Subject: ReMix: Shared Dance Practice

Facilitator: Devika Wickremesinghe

This class offers a way to create dance collectively, in a setting in which the roles of teacher and student change fluidly. A cumulative dance will be developed through the exchange of our stories. Time will be made for writing and speaking. We are the dance and we are our stories.

2:45pm - 4:05pm: session 2

Subject: Explorations in Contact Improvisation

Facilitator: Kloii Hummingbird Hollis

This workshop will explore the fundamentals of Contact Improvisation, a Western dance practice developed in 1972 through the work of Steve Paxton. We will look at how the form takes up Newton's Laws of Motion as well as practices of healthy touch and community-building. Topics covered will be weight sharing, balance, lifting for beginners, sliding, rolling, falling, personal boundaries and play.


4:20pm - 5:40pm: open rehearsal

Subject: Open rehearsal for Meadow

Facilitator: taisha paggett

This is a five-part class and open rehearsal for Meadow, a collective dance that is a movement choir that is the taking up of time, space and togetherness. The work will involve weight exchange, moving together in and out of unison and differing degrees of proximity. The work created here will be performed in the gallery/school on Saturday December 5th and Sunday December 6th. All participants in the class are eligible to perform in this final work. (Additional mandatory evening tech rehearsals will take place in the week of November 29th-Dec 4 for those involved in the performance. Details to be announced in class.) Outside of class we will read excerpts from The Undercommons, Fugitive Planning & Black Study (2013) by Stefano Harney and Fred Moten as an anchor to our collective movement.