I'm teaching three days of classes in PDX for those that have had enough already and want to get back into studio/body/creative space. Today on my walk through town, I was thinking about a simple score called "Composing the Room," and stopped to watch the goats perform it.
In February, I'll be back with Adam to teach our special two day dance film workshop (info below). Sign up in advance so we can make some good, number-appropriate lesson plans!
SPECIAL WORKSHOPS at Conduit in PDX
Dec 27 - 29 | 11am - 1pm
TECHNIQUE + SCORES
Technique + Scores is a daily practice that feeds the desire for physical rigor and spontaneous composition and improvisation. The first half of the class will focus on technical and physical exercises that warm up and explore the capacity for endurance, athleticism, mindfulness, and specificity in our bodies. In the second half of class we will introduce compositional scores for groups that bring integrate imagination, sensation, relationship, and and hone our craft as performers and creators.
February 8 & 9, 2014 | 12 - 5pm
PERCEPTUAL RIFT: Looking and Listening in Dance Cinema
Perceptual Rift is a special one-time workshop that Adam and I will be holding in August. We will share some of our key creative practices by making a film or films together as a group over the course of two days. It will take place both at Velocity Dance Center and at the Northwest Film Forum.
The goal of this course is to heighten your perception of place while working in two mediums, cinema and dance. It is geared towards both filmmakers and dancers, or artists interested in exploring this observational practice.
Info & Registration
More description:
The ideas that form our practice is similar to a perceptual rift, which the artist Vik Muniz has described as what occurs when two "seemingly contentious media," such as photography and drawing, are blended in such a way that the perceiver feels vision itself."
In these moments the media we're working with transform from our individual media (dance and cinema) and become the physical place and the perceiver's moment in that place. The rift that is created is actually a new space, opened up, a crack in our hardened, accustomed ways of seeing,
into which the new experience flows.
The workshop is an offering of tools that might help you open up that rift in your practice; cinematic, choreographic or otherwise, allowing you to expand how you participate with these mediums, and use them to further your own senses.
More specifically it will include working with observational scores, movement scores, discussions of framing and edits, practice in making short films and editing them. Bring your recording devices; audio, video, written. If you don't have one we can pair you with someone who does
