This workshop is focused on memory, nostalgia, and straddling time. We will uncover dances from our pasts as opportunities for transformed dancing in our present. What choreographies and genres live within you that are dying to come out? By engaging our past selves we will explore individual and group dance making – learning and creating compositional methods and movement and language based improvised scores. This workshop is for those searching for ways to reinvent their present performing body. I will ask you to regard the paths you have already taken, but have perhaps forgotten. The way you danced at a party in high school, at your elementary school recital, in your first day of college dance class – these are all valuable. Our dancing pasts will liberate our dancing futures.
What to expect:
This workshop is open to all levels, but is best suited towards those with a history of movement experience. Participants will move through improvisation, composition exercises, and working with language. There will be some journaling and reading as well.
For MELT-related questions, please email melt@movementresearch.org.
Accessibility Notes
- This workshop includes auditive guidance.
- This workshop includes digital readings.
To request ASL interpretation or Audio Description, please email accessibility@movementresearch.org, subject line “ASL/Audio Description Request, MELT Ogemdi Ude” 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 “MELT Ogemdi Ude.”
Register for this workshop
In-Person
This workshop is offered on a sliding scale of $160-$250.
Participants must register for the full workshop, there are no drop-ins.
