24 > 28.10.19
The Dance Center of Columbia College, Stony Island Arts Bank, Museum of Contemporary Art
Practical movements
by Noé Soulier
10.24 / 10:00 am > 1:00 pm
The Dance Center of Columbia College
“Avoid someone who avoids, start movements that will never happen, hit with the most fragile parts of the body… We will explore these paradoxical instructions to capture the qualities of movement produced by practical actions while avoiding a direct identification of the actions in question. The absence of immediate recognition of the aim makes it possible to offer a plurality of readings. The improvisations and movement sequences produced by these instructions will be coordinated by simple relationships: waiting, joining, following… We will thus develop a decentralized choreography where the adjustments and decisions made by each dancer determine the composition.”
Afterlives
by Ola Maciejewska
10.25 / 10:00 am > 1:00 pm
The Dance Center of Columbia College
This workshop will anchor on performative strategies behind the solo entitled Loie Fuller: Research that investigates the work and life of Loïe Fuller one of the pioneers of Modern dance through the lens of Post-Modern minimalist tendencies in dance articulated by Simone Forti, Yvonne Rainer and Robert Morris. By bringing seemingly unrelated histories Maciejewska engages in re-thinking and activating the past in critical yet playful manner. The gesture of activating historical material builds on examining in depth alternative modes of movement production as a strategy to work on legacy of object - centred dances, and invests in the process of re-writing dance history from ones own personal experience. The participants will explore principles, ideas, and tasks connected to the work.
Searching for one’s dance in someone else’s dance
by Pol Pi
10.26 / 10:00 am > 1:00 pm
Stony Island Arts Bank
Pol Pi will share with the students his practices that accompanied his work related to the idea of «searching for one’s dance in someone else’s dance», i.e. the activation of a physical imaginary different from one’s own habits activated by others; an attempt to be shaped by otherness, whether it is people sharing space with us or for example by dances coming to us from the past.
Maybe To Spectacle
by Trajal Harrell
10.28 / 6:00 > 8:00 pm
Museum of Contemporary Art
Trajal Harrell will conduct a seminar that is part lecture part conversation part moving and all us together. Using video and photographs, Harrell will map the trajectory of his aesthetic history beginning with his work on voguing and early postmodern dance and moving on to his more recent work with butoh and modern dance. Short sections of some of the dances will be learned as theoretical examples. The class transforms freely between moving, seeing, and talking as interests and questions arise from being in the room together.
Composition class
Noé Soulier
10.28 / 4:00 > 5:30 pm
University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Dance class
Noé Soulier
10.29
11:00 > 12:30 pm
University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Composition class
Trajal Harrell
10.29 / 4:00 > 5:30 pm
University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Dance class
Trajal Harrell
10.30 / 9:00 > 10:30 am
University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee