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Decomposing Dances - FREE Workshop

  • 14th street Y 344 East 14th Street New York, NY, 10003 United States (map)

Free Workshop through Pioneer's Go East Collectivepcoming @ 14 street Y.

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In our current research we are “decomposing” dances that have significantly impacted our personal dance lineage- sourcing from music videos, iconic moments of pop culture and our post-modern dance training (ie. Kate Bush’s Wuthering Heights, Napoleon Dynamite’s talent show dance, Cats the musical, and Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s Fase).

In this workshop we will be teaching some of these dances from our lineage as well as sourcing from the group’s collective movement lineage to recompose our own collaged polytheistic dances. We will discuss the impact these movement sequences have on us as movers, allowing for a reimagining of how dance exists in our spaces and in our bodies.

We recognize that everyone who attends this workshop has knowledge that is vital and necessary for building these spaces together. We work to craft the container for our workshops, while making space for varied contents. Our teaching practice does not have definitive answers, but rather leaves us with questions which we are asking ourselves, the spaces we hold, and the world around us. Anyone with a movement practice is welcome to join.