Innovative artist-led teaching.
A unique chance to dance.
A unique chance to dance.
Photo credits (clockwise from top left): Figtree Photography, Andy Ribner, BAAD (Bronx Academy of Arts & Dance), Mira Treatman, Orfeas Skutelis.
workshops
SATURDAY & SUNDAY / 4/14 4-6PM / 4/15 1-3PM / ARTIST: COURTNEY COLÓN
This workshop will focus on exploring the relationship between generous artistic exchange, and the promotion of individual creativity. Through the use of a series of improvisational tasks and a semi-structured score, we will experiment with combining group dynamics and individual movement practice. We will look at: developing a more conscious presence while moving, deepening awareness of our surroundings, and building a further sense of community. We will sweat. We will play. We will appreciate any approach and experience brought into the room, assuming that it is in exchange. We will make dance meaningful. Class will open with various partnering and group tasks designed to heighten the heart rate and warm up the body in preparation for deeper work. Floor-work and center combinations that highlight the space we are moving through as three-dimensional are then added. Movers from any background and level will find this class accessible and engaging, as I am most interested in exploring how our bodies can become warm and our minds engaged through functionality, rather than technique, within movement and activities. I welcome multiple diverse bodies and backgrounds that are dedicated to shifting the concept of a dance technique class from a place of extreme exclusivity and specialization, to one of inclusion and availability. The workshop will be offered over two days. Students need not attend both classes, but are encouraged to do so.
MOVING TOWARDS EMPTY: BUTOH & OTHER CONSIDERATIONS / ARTIST: SHIZU HOMMA
TUESDAYS 4/17 & 4/24 7-8PM / FRIDAY 4/20 7-8PM
WEDNESDAYS 4/18 & 4/25 1030AM-NOON
In this class, students will experience Noguchi exercise fundamentals, imagery work, and improvisational practices. All classes will begin by starting with training to embody emptiness, which also is referred to "hanging body" and "water body." Afterwards, there will be awareness exercises, butoh scores, and imagery work, culminating in improvisational encounters. This class is for dancers, theater artists, and the butoh curious. I will incorporate methods and ideas that I learned from my studies and experiences dancing for butoh choreographers. Please wear layers as the body heats up and cools down during this class. Please wear comfortable clothing that allows you to move. This class is open to all, and does not require former dance training, but keep in mind that the class will be strenuous, and at times physically demanding. It is highly recommended that you have layers that have long sleeves, and cover your legs, and that you bring a notebook and writing instrument.
WTF WEDNESDAYS / ARTIST: MARGOT ELECTRA STEINBERG
WEDNESDAYS 630-8PM / 4/11, 4/18, 4/25
This playful contemporary class will challenge your sense of direction, musicality, coordination, and memory. Let’s learn to pick up complex choreography by breaking it down and then building it back up! Classes will include warm-up, across the floor, and phrase work, as well as opportunities for improvisation and group composition.
BLIND DATE COLLABORATION WORKSHOP / ARTIST: MIRA TREATMAN
SUNDAY 4/22 12PM -3PM & THURSDAY 4/26 6-9PM
What makes a collaboration successful to you? What areas of your practice, artistic or otherwise, need the kind of TLC only provided by working with a brand new person? What is intrinsically valuable about making creative work in proximity to others? In this collaboration workshop we’ll use blind dating as a method of examining our notions of process and relating. In the workshop session we'll analyze our tendencies and attempt to frame them in context to uncover the buried biases we didn’t even know we had about working with each “other.” All workshop participants will be given a blind art date and each couple will share what they create three days later in a public showing! Instructor Mira Treatman will be available during the interim to assist in the collaboration through Skype and email. Register Here: www.miratreatman.com/upnext/2018/4/22/blind-dating-collaboration-workshop
This workshop will focus on exploring the relationship between generous artistic exchange, and the promotion of individual creativity. Through the use of a series of improvisational tasks and a semi-structured score, we will experiment with combining group dynamics and individual movement practice. We will look at: developing a more conscious presence while moving, deepening awareness of our surroundings, and building a further sense of community. We will sweat. We will play. We will appreciate any approach and experience brought into the room, assuming that it is in exchange. We will make dance meaningful. Class will open with various partnering and group tasks designed to heighten the heart rate and warm up the body in preparation for deeper work. Floor-work and center combinations that highlight the space we are moving through as three-dimensional are then added. Movers from any background and level will find this class accessible and engaging, as I am most interested in exploring how our bodies can become warm and our minds engaged through functionality, rather than technique, within movement and activities. I welcome multiple diverse bodies and backgrounds that are dedicated to shifting the concept of a dance technique class from a place of extreme exclusivity and specialization, to one of inclusion and availability. The workshop will be offered over two days. Students need not attend both classes, but are encouraged to do so.
MOVING TOWARDS EMPTY: BUTOH & OTHER CONSIDERATIONS / ARTIST: SHIZU HOMMA
TUESDAYS 4/17 & 4/24 7-8PM / FRIDAY 4/20 7-8PM
WEDNESDAYS 4/18 & 4/25 1030AM-NOON
In this class, students will experience Noguchi exercise fundamentals, imagery work, and improvisational practices. All classes will begin by starting with training to embody emptiness, which also is referred to "hanging body" and "water body." Afterwards, there will be awareness exercises, butoh scores, and imagery work, culminating in improvisational encounters. This class is for dancers, theater artists, and the butoh curious. I will incorporate methods and ideas that I learned from my studies and experiences dancing for butoh choreographers. Please wear layers as the body heats up and cools down during this class. Please wear comfortable clothing that allows you to move. This class is open to all, and does not require former dance training, but keep in mind that the class will be strenuous, and at times physically demanding. It is highly recommended that you have layers that have long sleeves, and cover your legs, and that you bring a notebook and writing instrument.
WTF WEDNESDAYS / ARTIST: MARGOT ELECTRA STEINBERG
WEDNESDAYS 630-8PM / 4/11, 4/18, 4/25
This playful contemporary class will challenge your sense of direction, musicality, coordination, and memory. Let’s learn to pick up complex choreography by breaking it down and then building it back up! Classes will include warm-up, across the floor, and phrase work, as well as opportunities for improvisation and group composition.
BLIND DATE COLLABORATION WORKSHOP / ARTIST: MIRA TREATMAN
SUNDAY 4/22 12PM -3PM & THURSDAY 4/26 6-9PM
What makes a collaboration successful to you? What areas of your practice, artistic or otherwise, need the kind of TLC only provided by working with a brand new person? What is intrinsically valuable about making creative work in proximity to others? In this collaboration workshop we’ll use blind dating as a method of examining our notions of process and relating. In the workshop session we'll analyze our tendencies and attempt to frame them in context to uncover the buried biases we didn’t even know we had about working with each “other.” All workshop participants will be given a blind art date and each couple will share what they create three days later in a public showing! Instructor Mira Treatman will be available during the interim to assist in the collaboration through Skype and email. Register Here: www.miratreatman.com/upnext/2018/4/22/blind-dating-collaboration-workshop
teacher bios
COURTNEY COLÓN
Courtney Colón is a creator, educator, mover, and artist-activist. She holds an MFA in Dance from Hollins University, studying in Germany, Virginia, and New York. Ms. Colón completed her BA in Dance from Stockton University, graduating with distinction in her program. Courtney has taught and performed extensively throughout the United States. Her choreography and lectures have been presented in NY, NJ, PA, DE, and VA. In 2010, Ms. Colón founded pillardance company, a dance collective based in Philadelphia, PA.
SHIZU HOMMA
Shizu Homma is a Brooklyn-born, recently moved to Philadelphia, artist. Here dance work has been seen at Judson Church, Joyce Soho, BAAD!, Chashama, AUNTS collective, Alfa Gallery, Amelie Wallace Gallery, Le Petit Versailles, among others. She has taught butoh at Middlebury College, Trinity/Lamama, Dancing into the Future at BAM, Flynn Center of the Arts, and FAMU (Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University). Recently, her first dance performance in Philadelphia took place at Vox Populi, with the Dead Flowers group.
MARGOT ELECTRA STEINBERG
Margot Electra Steinberg is a Philadelphia-based dancer, choreographer, improviser & teacher. She earned a BA in Dance with concentrations in Choreography & Teaching from Muhlenberg College in 2016. Margot currently teaches dance to children at PlayArts, Tini Tutus Dance Center, Lume Art Studio & through Koresh Kids Outreach Program. Margot has previously taught for the Muhlenberg Community Dance Center, Buckingham Dance Studio, Napoli School of Music & Dance, Buck's Rock Creative & Performing Arts Camp & in senior living facilities in the greater Philadelphia area through Dancin’ Chairs LLC.
MIRA TREATMAN
Mira Treatman is a dance-theatre artist who creates performances stemming from experimental research. Described by Julius Ferraro in thINKingDANCE as “not graceful,” she works to reframe what dancing bodies mean on stage, screen and site. Her work has been presented at Dixon Place, Goldilocks Gallery, the Sandy Spring Museum, and Glasshouse. She has performed in works by and with Sylvain Emard, Irina Varina, Katherine Kiefer Stark, Zornitsa Stoyanova, Headlong, and Teatro Linea de Sombra/Cie Carabosse. In 2017, she was an artist in residence at Arts Letters & Numbers. She is a 2018 participant of LANDING at Gibney Dance.
Courtney Colón is a creator, educator, mover, and artist-activist. She holds an MFA in Dance from Hollins University, studying in Germany, Virginia, and New York. Ms. Colón completed her BA in Dance from Stockton University, graduating with distinction in her program. Courtney has taught and performed extensively throughout the United States. Her choreography and lectures have been presented in NY, NJ, PA, DE, and VA. In 2010, Ms. Colón founded pillardance company, a dance collective based in Philadelphia, PA.
SHIZU HOMMA
Shizu Homma is a Brooklyn-born, recently moved to Philadelphia, artist. Here dance work has been seen at Judson Church, Joyce Soho, BAAD!, Chashama, AUNTS collective, Alfa Gallery, Amelie Wallace Gallery, Le Petit Versailles, among others. She has taught butoh at Middlebury College, Trinity/Lamama, Dancing into the Future at BAM, Flynn Center of the Arts, and FAMU (Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University). Recently, her first dance performance in Philadelphia took place at Vox Populi, with the Dead Flowers group.
MARGOT ELECTRA STEINBERG
Margot Electra Steinberg is a Philadelphia-based dancer, choreographer, improviser & teacher. She earned a BA in Dance with concentrations in Choreography & Teaching from Muhlenberg College in 2016. Margot currently teaches dance to children at PlayArts, Tini Tutus Dance Center, Lume Art Studio & through Koresh Kids Outreach Program. Margot has previously taught for the Muhlenberg Community Dance Center, Buckingham Dance Studio, Napoli School of Music & Dance, Buck's Rock Creative & Performing Arts Camp & in senior living facilities in the greater Philadelphia area through Dancin’ Chairs LLC.
MIRA TREATMAN
Mira Treatman is a dance-theatre artist who creates performances stemming from experimental research. Described by Julius Ferraro in thINKingDANCE as “not graceful,” she works to reframe what dancing bodies mean on stage, screen and site. Her work has been presented at Dixon Place, Goldilocks Gallery, the Sandy Spring Museum, and Glasshouse. She has performed in works by and with Sylvain Emard, Irina Varina, Katherine Kiefer Stark, Zornitsa Stoyanova, Headlong, and Teatro Linea de Sombra/Cie Carabosse. In 2017, she was an artist in residence at Arts Letters & Numbers. She is a 2018 participant of LANDING at Gibney Dance.
