WORKSHOP WITH JEN ROSENBLIT
SUNDAY MAY 4TH, 10 AM- 2 PM
Mascher Space Cooperative,
155 Cecil B Moore
$25
No one turned away for lack of funds
Look at me Don't Look at me is a performance-based workshop for anyone who considers or questions the body and all it's multiplicity. We will deal directly with language, perhaps challenging conventions and contexts but ultimately fostering spaces for each other to re-imagine the felt, the experiential and a widening of space. This gathering follows in my research and practice of improvisation, performativity and choreographic thought, allowing for an agenda to build on itself among those who are present. The culture of the workshop maintains a dedication to improvisation and experimental performance in all it's glory, there is no goal for a thesis. There is no word limit. We can delete our mission statements. We don't have to get to the point. We will honor an interrogation of performance that understands the complexities of being looked at and all the desires and expectations that follow. Each participant should come prepared with something; a text, an idea, a concept, an extremely set 4.5 minute solo on point shoes, a conversation, an image, a memory....SOMETHING THAT YOU HAVE BEEN IN RELATION TO LATELY. We will talk a lot. We will improvise with our bodies and with other's ideas and we will look at each other with the patronage that we can't always get from an audience. There will be no pre determined guidelines for how to speak about what we do together. The work will be to move toward understanding each other. How do we engage and how can we engage with that? What are our systems, considered or not, for organizing information? The politics of organization and desire will be points of departure for the group to access if we need something to stand on. We will consider our bodies as institutions that generate a governing order. This is about tone, qualitative quantity, specificity without narrowing and what the needs are for those who attend. Approaching experimentation, feelings and performance as a culture rather than aesthetic or technique, this workshop will locate (dis)organization as both a somatic and political gesture. This will be time to move toward ideas, our complex bodies, and to consider dance as a lens for the arranging of sensorial information. We will follow tangential thought to move away from definition and closer to the precision of what the working groups need that day. This makes the most sense for dancers and dance makers, I am interested in this space being beautiful for writers, thinkers, shy bodies, queers, someone who wants some group therapy, musicians, criminal sketch artists and people who go to work everyday and can't seem to find the time to intentionally be with a group of potential strangers.
SUNDAY MAY 4TH, 10 AM- 2 PM
Mascher Space Cooperative,
155 Cecil B Moore
$25
No one turned away for lack of funds
Look at me Don't Look at me is a performance-based workshop for anyone who considers or questions the body and all it's multiplicity. We will deal directly with language, perhaps challenging conventions and contexts but ultimately fostering spaces for each other to re-imagine the felt, the experiential and a widening of space. This gathering follows in my research and practice of improvisation, performativity and choreographic thought, allowing for an agenda to build on itself among those who are present. The culture of the workshop maintains a dedication to improvisation and experimental performance in all it's glory, there is no goal for a thesis. There is no word limit. We can delete our mission statements. We don't have to get to the point. We will honor an interrogation of performance that understands the complexities of being looked at and all the desires and expectations that follow. Each participant should come prepared with something; a text, an idea, a concept, an extremely set 4.5 minute solo on point shoes, a conversation, an image, a memory....SOMETHING THAT YOU HAVE BEEN IN RELATION TO LATELY. We will talk a lot. We will improvise with our bodies and with other's ideas and we will look at each other with the patronage that we can't always get from an audience. There will be no pre determined guidelines for how to speak about what we do together. The work will be to move toward understanding each other. How do we engage and how can we engage with that? What are our systems, considered or not, for organizing information? The politics of organization and desire will be points of departure for the group to access if we need something to stand on. We will consider our bodies as institutions that generate a governing order. This is about tone, qualitative quantity, specificity without narrowing and what the needs are for those who attend. Approaching experimentation, feelings and performance as a culture rather than aesthetic or technique, this workshop will locate (dis)organization as both a somatic and political gesture. This will be time to move toward ideas, our complex bodies, and to consider dance as a lens for the arranging of sensorial information. We will follow tangential thought to move away from definition and closer to the precision of what the working groups need that day. This makes the most sense for dancers and dance makers, I am interested in this space being beautiful for writers, thinkers, shy bodies, queers, someone who wants some group therapy, musicians, criminal sketch artists and people who go to work everyday and can't seem to find the time to intentionally be with a group of potential strangers.