TUNING SCORES: laboratory on composition, communication, and the sense of imagination
This research focuses on the physical base of the imagination. By altering the way we use our senses while moving and watching movement, we can identify how the movement patterns of our senses influence how and why we move, and shape our interaction with our inner and outer environments. Focusing on vision, touch, and hearing, the scores provoke spontaneous compositions that make evident our opinions about space, time, action, and desire, and provide a framework for communication and collaboration amongst us. The question of what are we looking at when we look at dancing is always present. Open to performing artists and performance-makers of all disciplines.

One Thing to Another
This workshop explores interdisciplinary processes of conceptualization and composition for live performance, with a bias toward choreography. Through a sequence of exercises and structured feedback, participants work with a range of approaches to the transformation of information from one kind of material to another. This could include movement, text, objects, sound, image, etc. Come in with a clean slate or with materials/ ideas for a project underway. Makers and performers from all realms welcome

PHYSICAL DIALOGUES: TOOLS FOR RESEARCHING MOVEMENT & FOR MAKING DANCES
This work looks at the functioning of the body and how the mind and body work together to compose our movement. We consider movement from all aspects of our lives as material. Specific exercises are designed to alter our habitual ways of experiencing the environment in order to create an opportunity to re-focus on the details of our sensory experience, perceptions, and actions. This work provides tools for researching your own movement and movement choices.

Returning to Go
This workshop is for those already comfortable with Contact Improv fundamentals. We will work both experientially and analytically with a series of skills, including naval radiation; dueting with gravity; sequentiality; and momentum and release. The workshop will be weighted toward working with each skill physically, and we will then try to further understand through discussion how those skills play out in our bodies.

Releasing
Through specially designed images, we will enable ourselves to let go of hidden tensions and realign with the natural forces of gravity and counter balance. Through the releasing process, we will learn how to move with more freedom and economy. Spontaneous movement explorations will allow us to creatively integrate these changes in our bodies. The experience of seeing into our bodies will give us a wonderful tool for improvisational dance. The Intermediate level classes are a clear continuation of the Beginning level classes. In order to deepen the releasing process, new imagery will be given and old images will grow in complexity.

“Moving, Sounding & Acting” An 8-Hour Intensive Integrating Movement, Voice and Theatre through
The workshop is open to dancers, vocalists/musicians, actors and all interdisciplinary performers who want to increase their range of expression and delve into a holistic approach to artmaking. A physical and vocal warm-up, as well as learning songs to be sung together in ��œrounds���, creates a great sense of community and unified purpose from which we can move into interdisciplinary explorations together and individually.

Why?
I don���t yet know what we���ll do in this workshop, but it will be oriented around the desire to understand why we are doing it. We will address a small part of this vast topic by doing (more than by talking about doing), but both will play a part. This may include any and all forms of expression which are appropriate tools for our needs. Ideal participants will be willing to try just about anything in the hopes of understanding more about why we should make art and will embrace a rigorous, yet open, definition of the word ��œunderstand.���