TEACHING
Upcoming 2019 Teaching:
JANUARY 7-18: The Transgressive Body at Movement Research MELT, NYC
FEBRUARY 4-MAY 20: Creating Your Own Biomythnography, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
APRIL 3-5: Mapping the Transgressive Body at Studio 303, Montreal
APRIL 26: Guest Teaching at LANDING at Gibney, NYC
Past Events:
DECEMBER 15, 2018: Mapping the Transgressive Body, NPN Conference 2018, Pittsburgh, PA
OCTOBER 9-13, 2018: Mapping the Transgressive Body Workshop and Presentation at Within Practice, Stockholm, Sweden
OCTOBER 3-6, 2018: Transgressive Boy Workshop, Lion's Jaw Festival, Cambridge, MA
JUNE 15-17: Freedom/Moves Symposium at pOnderosa,
Lunow-Stolzenhagen, Germany
MAY 3, 2018: Moving the Transgressive Body Workshop at UC Riverside, CA
APRIL 7, 2018: Transgressive Body Workshop at The Whole Shebang in Philadelphia, PA
APRIL 4, 2018: Knowing Dance More with Thomas DeFrantz, UArts, Philadelphia, PA
JANUARY 10-14: Deconstructing Perceptions with Thomas DeFrantz, Movement Research MELT, NYC
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CURRENT OFFERING(S):
How do we as movement practitioners train and strengthen the mind and body to resist oppressive structures and systems? How might tools of self care, personal meditation, and psychic choreographic systems support and prepare us for site based and/or theatrical radical performance making? How does the teaching of theory promote new systems for intellectual simulation and understanding? Centering an interdisciplinary approach to live performance making, this creative lab will consider how we as artist-citizens strengthen the mind and body to resist normalized structures of performance to release, activate, and translate unknown, foreign, and/or vulnerable materials into live performance actions. Students will conduct research, view and critique live performance and create cosmologies of their creative influencers. Open to all students interested in exploring their previously uncharted performative potential.
Participants are encouraged to bring:
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questions about their own work and practice that they are willing to unfold and share within a group environment
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radical costumes that disguise their bodies
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one or more personal items they feel comfortable sharing and working with in public space
Image of the Transgressive Body Workshop at Lion's Jaw Festival 2018 by The Fleet NYC.
For those
of us
who were
imprinted with fear
like a
faint line in the center of our foreheads
learning to
be afraid with our mother’s milk
for by this
weapon
this
illusion of some safety to be found
the
heavy-footed hoped to silence us
For all of
us
this
instant and this triumph
We were never meant to survive.
– Audre Lorde, A Litany For Survival
MAPPING THE TRANSGRESSIVE BODY WORKSHOP
