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ID: This file comes from Wellcome Images, a website operated by Wellcome Trust, a global charitable foundation based in the United Kingdom. Refer to Wellcome blog post (archive). An Anatomy of the Human Arteries adapted from Diderot and d’Alembert (1762) from the Welcome Library, London

This 8 session workshop is a collaboration between dance artist and teacher K.J. Holmes and neuroscientist and dance researcher Hossein Aleyasin.

Each session will focus on and utilize as a source for dance a specific dhatu, or element/tissue of the body, through experiential study and practice of anatomy, eastern and western theories, and movement principles.

What to Expect:
The workshop will be both laboratory and creative studio. We will explore the diverse material through lecture, slides, sounding, movement, writing and drawing, and embodying transitions as blueprints for improvising and composing dance.

Students must take the full workshop as the material will develop each week.

Open to all levels of experience.

Accessibility Notes

  • This workshop includes auditive guidance.
  • This workshop includes a projected images/video/text.
  • This workshop includes printed materials.
  • This workshop includes digital readings.

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

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

Register for this workshop

In-Person

    Participants must register for the full workshop, there are no drop-ins.

    Please note: There will be no class on April 2nd.

    $265

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    Location

    Eden’s Expressway
    537 Broadway 4th Fl
    New York, NY 10012

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    Artists

    K.J. Holmes

    K.J. Holmes

    K.J. Holmes, independent dance artist, singer, poet, actor and teacher based in Brooklyn, N.Y., has helped to define, first as a student and now as a teacher and performer, many contemporary improvisational practices...

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    Hossein Aleyasin

    Hossein Aleyasin

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