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From the MR Archives, 2023 Summer MELT. Joanna Kotze teaches at the Judson Church. She wears a blue top and patterned bottoms. Her arms out and one foot stepping forward. Photo by Rachel Keane.
ID: From the MR Archives, 2023 Summer MELT. Joanna Kotze teaches at the Judson Church. She wears a blue top and patterned bottoms. Her arms out and one foot stepping forward. Photo by Rachel Keane.

This three-day workshop is for advanced dancers to go deeper into anatomical connections, phrase-work, making considerations, and performance practices. 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 three days. Through technical studies, set movement phrases and improvisational practices, we will discover 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 finding more range, opposition and weight in the body.

There will be a short break from 11:45AM-12:00PM each day.

Accessibility Notes

  • This workshop 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 first date of the workshop.

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

Register for this workshop

In-Person

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

    $200

    Select a price within the Sliding Scale range

    Location

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

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    Artists

    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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