HomeClasses and EventsClasses and WorkshopsMorning Class: Technique Laboratory
  • Tue & Thu, Apr 16 - 23, 2024 | 10AM-12PM
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Photo of Joanna Kotze teaching dancers in a large studio. She has brown hair in a messy bun and bangs. She is demonstrating a movement with her hands bending at the elbow and palms facing away from her face, fingers spread. The students are behind her paying attention and adjusting. Photo by Jhsumedia.
ID: Photo of Joanna Kotze teaching dancers in a large studio. She has brown hair in a messy bun and bangs. She is demonstrating a movement with her hands bending at the elbow and palms facing away from her face, fingers spread. The students are behind her paying attention and adjusting. Photo by Jhsumedia.

Both laboratory and technique class, we will delve into the body’s architecture and its unique potential, gaining more information, trust and range throughout the week. Through technical studies, set movement phrases and improvisational practices, we will discover, embrace and challenge habits and pre-conceived notions while practicing our relationship to time, space and each other. Concentrating on the forces through the legs into the floor will lead us to find more range, opposition and weight in the body. It will be a space for work, play, precision, and experimentation. This class is recommended for intermediate to advanced dancers.

Accessibility Notes

  • This class includes auditive guidance.

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

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

Past class

Location

Judson Memorial Church
55 Washington Square S
New York, NY 10012

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Faculty

Joanna Kotze

Joanna Kotze

Joanna Kotze is a Brooklyn-based, Bessie-award winning dancer, choreographer and educator. She creates highly physical dance performances through a collaborative, multi disciplinary process, presenting ways to look at effort, labor, humor, violence, unpredictability, and beauty through movement as well as the body’s relationship to sound, materials, light, and space.

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