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In this performance project, we’ll work with close encounters and with the physical puzzles that result. We’ll work individually and collectively to generate movement materials that build toward small group patterns that mix, combine, and sometimes clash. For those interested in challenging their athleticism, movement invention and negotiating skills. The new work will be

Hanou, from the language of Gurunsi, means “myself.”  This piece will be built upon the individual stories of the participants who will contribute not only fragments of their own histories but also spatial scenarios. The collected scenarios will form the base of the larger structure that will weave them into an interconnected fabric of movement, sound and space.  The

In this creative process lab, we will be developing dance and site responsive movement scores to be performed live and in relation to video. During the first seven weeks, we will be cultivating/creating these scores based on rigorous somatic investigation and dance practice, both within the studio and within specific predetermined locations. Throughout this process, students

In this performance project, we will be investigating how to build content and how to look at dance as a living sculpture. Multiple locations will be chosen for multiple new sculptures. We will use the architectural elements of a space to inform the building of our content. Each “living structure” will be made in only a few weeks and made only to exist in that specific location

In this performance project, we will build on the body knowledge of each participant. We will explore the nuance and precision of impulses and will inhibit them when necessary. Keenly aware of our relationship to space and each other, we can intuit others’ actions just as inanimate bodies might repel and attract in a magnetic field. Attunement at the level of reflex, habit, and

In this performance project, we will build on the body knowledge of each participant. We will explore the nuance and precision of impulses and will inhibit them when necessary. Keenly aware of our relationship to space and each other, we can intuit others’ actions just as inanimate bodies might repel and attract in a magnetic field. Attunement at the level of reflex, habit, and

In this course we will create a new dance project together. The ensemble work will allow participants to engage in a rigorous approach to the practice of performing. Each performer is invited to bring what they know with them to the project, yet leave room for each to express a complex and indefinable range of experience through the humor, intelligence and emotional engagement

I know I don’t know what I know or don’t know. I start with the passion to make something. I don’t know what it will be.  I like the process of learning and searching, understanding myself more as I work through it. Who am I? What do I want? What makes me interested? What can I make? Who are these people who work with me? Starting from scratch, without a particular image

In this dance project, we will investigate how to apply the body as both tool and material. We will observe our responses to and projections upon multiple objects, combining our personal understandings with the generally held definitions of those objects. Our practice will be to deconstruct these findings and transfer them to physical actions. Then, these will be woven into a

In this performance project, we will create a new original work in which a single “figure” emerges from the many bodies, beings, objects, places, and experiences that make up our world. Rather than imagining an individual as a fixed, separate identity, we will explore the possibility of a body composed of multiple presences and relationships. Each student will begin

I am interested in making dances that reveal the unique personalities of group members while they work towards achieving a particular goal. Through using improvisation and set material, we will work to accomplish simple tasks in an overly contrived fashion. As with the mechanisms found in a Rube Goldberg Machine, the multiple components will add up to a needlessly complex and

This performance project course is open to anyone who is interested in a text-based experimental performance, which may not fit in a frame of dance or theater in the traditional sense. Mina Nishimura will facilitate the creative process of making a new text-based performance, Pressing Face Against That Window [working title], written and directed by co-facilitator Kota

Sing-Gré (meaning Root) will be based on Souleymane “Solo” Badolo’s current work, Yimbégré, made for Brooklyn Academy of Music. He will further explore an aspect of this major piece with students and make a new work with them. In the Mooré language, yimbégré means “beginning.” For the powerful dancer and choreographer Badolo, born in Burkina Faso and currently based in

How are groups identified, formed, reformed, sustained, absorbed, or disbanded? What is an individual's responsibility towards the group? How is individuality acknowledged within the group? How do individuals handle becoming inseparable from the group? In this project, we will investigate these questions though movement and discussion. We will work in groups, shifting

In this performance project, we will assemble personal, intimate portraits and counter-narratives which then fracture and multiply through deliberate organization. Some of the emotions are familiar, some alien. Throughout the creative process, what is revealed is a dedication to observation and the search for the solutions in this improbable attempt to exist together. The

Throughout this creative process we will cultivate mindful embodiment as a radical political act. Rebecca Brooks will create a new performance work built on the premise that deep somatic engagement vastly affects us both individually and collectively. How can dancing prepare us to propagate change, to stay in action no matter what, to sharpen our awareness to our environment

This course will explore the construction and experience of gender and sexuality in the Middle East through a performative lens. Drawing on research in ethnomusicology, queer and gender studies, anthropology and Middle Eastern history, the course will examine performance (music, dance, theater, poetry and more) as a process of representation, assertion, and sometimes

Attention is the medium of performance. Performers conduct attention, both theirs and the audience’s. Through a series of embodied practices, we will work with qualities and directions of attention, and explore performance from the perspective of the senses. Seeing and being seen, hearing and being heard, touching and being touched, moving and being moved, we will investigate

This interdisciplinary class looks at the relationship between the visual arts, performance and dance. In particular, we will focus on the influence of collage across disciplines by finding common methods and themes, such as juxtaposition, chance and appropriation. We will trace the history of collage in the visual arts and then investigate its impact on other fields, including

This interdisciplinary class looks at the relationship between the visual arts, performance and dance. In particular, we will focus on the influence of collage across disciplines by finding common methods and themes, such as juxtaposition, chance and appropriation. We will trace the history of collage in the visual arts and then investigate its impact on other fields, including

This interdisciplinary class looks at the relationship between the visual arts, performance, and dance. In particular, we will focus on the influence of collage across disciplines by finding common methods and themes, such as juxtaposition, chance, and appropriation. We will trace the history of collage in the visual arts and then

This interdisciplinary class looks at the relationship between the visual arts, performance and dance. In particular, we will focus on the influence of collage across disciplines by finding common methods and themes, such as juxtaposition, chance and appropriation. We will trace the history of collage in the visual arts and then investigate its impact on other fields,

This interdisciplinary class looks at the relationship between the visual arts, performance and dance. In particular, we will focus on the influence of collage across disciplines by finding common methods and themes, such as juxtaposition, chance and appropriation. We will trace the history of collage in the visual arts and then investigate its impact on other fields,

Working in conjunction with Advanced Design and Collaboration students, performers will be invited to join a design orientated devised performance. When theater starts with a script, visuals tend to follow the narrative. But what happens when bold visuals lead the way? Class will be used as a space to explore design centric performative work. Students will keep a journal as