Chinati Foundation, Marfa TX

dancing Body/Site

dancing Body/Site is a class that works to generate movement experience, vocabulary and choreography from information found within and through interactions with space, architecture and décor. Architectural site is considered in relation to memory, function, scale, surface and perception. We will trace various paths of logic housed in found structures (as site, body, pathway), consider moments wherein respective rationales deviate or shift in the event of the dance, and experience dance that takes on new possibilities as a conversation with the site. dancing Body/Site is a class that investigates the (in)compatibilities between body and structure, movement and spatial construct. We will begin by looking at theoretical discourses assessing interactions between body and site, drafting lines of influence and mutual relation, and then move into the frame of dance-making, improvisation and performance. Expanding upon the role of venue to become one of site, spatial specificity/sensitivity and the particular architecture of place, we will consider social, historical, political dimensions of the body and self in a marked space, locating subsequent and present intersections.

Movement Research Festival 2008

Wed June 4 @ Judson Memorial Church -- showings at the closing night party June 7

American Dance Festival, Duke University

July 2007 & July 2008