International Conference "Theatre Between Tradition and Contemporaneity" Theatre - Dance - Music - Visual & Multimedia Art - Arts Administration - Performing Arts Training - Stage Design & Technology ![]() Collaborative Contact: From Classical to Contemporary
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He has taught through Japan Contemporary Dance Network as a member of Liz Lerman Dance Exchange in Sapporo, Japan; The i-Dance Festival in Hong Kong, Chadwick International School in Incheon, South Korea and twice set choreography on the students at Universidad de Las Américas in Puebla, México. He holds an MFA in Dance from Bennington College and a BFA from School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The spirit of our collaborative aesthetic is gleaned from the knowledge and our collective years of performing experience in traditional pas de deux partnering from the ballet idiom. We have also worked with various choreographers across the spectrum of processes that range from modern and postmodern dance to contemporary, dance theater and the avant garde. Another thread of our experience that we bring into our process is the work we have done with Contact Improvisation. During the summers we have worked and performed alongside Nancy Stark Smith, one of the leaders and innovators in the Contact lineage. From Nancy we have learned that within a structure there is great freedom to explore and to innovate. Within the framework of the workshops that we will offer at IUGTE will be to explore a solo embodied warmup using anatomical images inside of a led improvisational experience. We will then use tasks to explore our relationship to another body and to develop a shared language for which to explore the matrix of partnering modalities from pas de deux to contact improvisation. Organized by IUGTE in collaboration with "ArtUniverse" and New International Performing Arts Institute |