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Human/ity Dance - workshop taught by K.J. Holmes
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Full Workshop, Jan 12-15, 2017. $150 early bird (register by 12/31/2016), $200 after 1/1/2017
Thurs/Fri, Jan 12 and 13, 10 am - 1 pm
Sat/Sun, Jan 14 and 15, 12:30-4:30 pm
Thurs/Fri - 3 hour workshops
$30 single day OR $50 for both days
Sat/Sun workshops
$125 - both days, 12:30 - 4:30 pm
We are the mediums between all the expressions we enter. This workshop will address the dancing human through exploring the collaboration between studies and research that connect to a greater sense of self -and to the world - both as personal sensation and from being alive in these contemporary times. In classes we will: look at systems and states of the body; challenge ourselves with direct contact as physical, psyche, emotion and dream; sound, sing and use our voices as music, with found text and what we write; and we will find a poetics of creating dance and theater that we can utilize what we know and reveal new strengths and tools for performance.
Human/ity Dance comes from 30 years of personal research into somatics, theater, voice and eastern forms. These forms include the Tuning Scores of Lisa Nelson, evolutionary and developmental studies of Body Mind Centering (r), Contact Improvisation and Material for the Spine from Steve Paxton, the Sanford Meisner acting processes, Roy Hart voice work, and Yoga and Ayurvedic practices. How do we resonate? How do we work with resistance? How do we know when we are more? How do we encounter the human dancing? This workshop is a template for a larger workshop to be held at Earthdance in May of 2017.
K.J. Holmes, based in Brooklyn NY, is an independent dance artist, actor, singer, poet and teacher exploring improvisation as process and performance since 1981. Collaborators include Simone Forti, Karen Nelson, Lisa Nelson/Image Lab, and Steve Paxton, poet Julie Carr, performer Keith Biesack, and trumpeters Roy Campbell Jr. and Dave Douglas. A graduate of the School for Body-Mind Centering 1999, Satya Yoga 2007 and the William Esper Studio (Meisner acting/Terry Knickerbocker 2009), of which the play between is essential to her current practices, she teaches at NYU/ETW, Juilliard and Movement Research and travels nationally and internationally conducting workshops and performing. Recently performed with Miguel Gutierrez, Mark Dendy, Lance Gries, Melinda Ring, Emily Johnson, in Xavier Le Roys Retrospective at PS1:MoMa and in The Works of Steve Paxton at DIA:BEACON 2014.
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LocationHamlin Park Fieldhouse Theater (View)
3035 N. Hoyne
Chicago, IL 60618
United States
Categories
| Minimum Age: 18 |
| Kid Friendly: No |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: No |
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