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  • Monday-Friday, January 15 - 19, 2024 | 3:30-5:30PM
Angie Pittman performing for Movement Research at the Judson Church. She is standing with her legs crossing and her torso twisting to one side. Her arms and gaze look towards her back leg. Photo by Rachel Keane.
ID: Angie Pittman performing for Movement Research at the Judson Church. She is standing with her legs crossing and her torso twisting to one side. Her arms and gaze look towards her back leg. Photo by Rachel Keane.

In this session, you’ll be led by dance artist Angie Pittman, whose practice centers experimentation, Black womanism, improvisation, and narrative as impetus for movement. Drawing from Umfundalai, a contemporary technique derived from dance traditions throughout the African diaspora, she’ll guide you through movements that will leave you with a greater awareness of your physical body and the way your feet impact the earth. She often works with the imagery and organizing principles of Umfundalai, Soul Line Dance, improvisation, and Bartenieff Fundamentals. We will navigate dance material through floorwork, breath, self-massage, set phrase work, and improvisational scores while letting the backspace be responsive, mobile, and listening.

Accessibility Notes

  • This workshop includes auditive guidance.
  • This workshop includes readings.

To request ASL interpretation or Audio Description, please email accessibility@movementresearch.org, subject line “ASL/Audio Description Request, Angie Pittman” at least three (3) weeks prior to the class start date.

For access-related questions and requests, please contact accessibility@movementresearch.org, subject line “Angie Pittman.”

Past workshop

Location

MR, 122CC – Ninth Street Studio
150 1st Avenue
New York, NY 10009

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Artists

Angie Pittman

Angie Pittman

Angie Pittman is a New York-based dancer-choreographer whose choreographic work uses dance, text, and sound inside of a Black Radical Tradition.

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