PRACTICAL SUPPLY: CONTEMPORARY DANCE TECHNIQUES
A contemporary practice emulsifying form and function. Improvisation, phrase work, and investigation are utilized to ignite the physical and cultivate the conceptual. We will draw upon the requisite arsenal of attention, imagination, perception, and sensation. Take inventory and replenish the essentials of your practice within artistic clarity, rhythmic acuity and nuanced power.
BASE GROOVE
Rooted in rhythm, we physicalize the pulse inherent within the diverse lineage and impact of jazz music and movement. While honoring traditional jazz music and steps, we situate the practice within our current bodies, focusing on quality, style, connection and musicality.
PARTS AND PARTNERS
Part listening, part engaging—partnering the body, the space, and what is in the space. In this contemporary movement practice we will parse through our multiple partners within our movement practices through weight sharing, listening, skill building, improvisation and phrasework. Together, we seek to bolden our individual voices while honing partner and ensemble awareness.
BEING HERE: STRATEGIES FOR HOLDING SPACE FOR SELF/OTHERS AN IN AN INCREASINGLY VIRTUAL WORLD
Inertia DeWitt, Mental Health Professional and Healing Arts Practitioner, and Britta Joy Peterson, Dance Place Artist in Residence, share strategies for holding space in a time where space is, well, spacey. Springing from BJP’s research within “And Now, Hold Me” and DeWitt’s work in somatic psychotherapy, this interactive workshop offers real-time methods for connecting and communicating more fully with self and others for in-person and virtual settings.
HARDWARE STORE HIGH ART
If you’re like us, you most likely don’t have an endless supply of cash to make your artistic dreams come true. You have to stretch your resources as far as they can go. One way to do so is to hit up the hardware store. Come hang with Evan Anderson (lighting) and Britta Joy Peterson (dance) and explore ways to creatively utilize the resources that Corporate America is willing to let you return.
EXQUISITE FRAME
Exquisite Frame is a forum for experimentation, exposure, and exchange. Through a series of invited co-curations with DMV-based artists, short new works are presented that:
a) play within and push up against ordinary and exquisite.
b) leverage the precarious potential of what’s possible within the digital platform.
c) query within quantities and qualities of risk, rigor, and relevance.
d) are created exquisitely for this specific frame. Works may spring out of past, current, or new veins of inquiry, and should be submitted as stand-alone, new works for premiere in this forum.
e) are 3-5 minutes in length.
Apply for Exquisite Frame July - Applications due 11:59pm Friday May 7th.
Upcoming Exquisite Frame, co-curated by Britta Joy Peterson and Rebecca Ferrell - seen July 10 at Dance Place.
SH*T GOLD
Open Floor Performance Night. For artists experimenting in any genre to present work/ideas/improvisation 5 minutes or less. Low stress. High focus. Veleocity Dance Center - Seattle, WA
MOVEMENT SPEAKS: CONVERSATIONS ABOUT DANCE
A curated series of lecture/demonstrations by BJP, currently hosted at American University. Dance Professionals gather to discuss current research, practice, questions, intersections and more.
PROPELLING PROFESSIONAL PERFORMANCE PROJECT
Connects professional dance artists and students to work alongside one another in a residency setting. Together, the professionals and students create and perform a new dance work under BJP’s choreographic direction. During this immersive role-modeling process, the professionals also engage with students by attending social events, teaching classes, and performing in Show + Tell and Movement Speaks.
Western Wyoming Community College, Wyoming
