//Workshops & Master Classes //
Velocity Master Class Series
tEEth: Saturday, March 3rd 12:00-1:45pm
Join Co-Artistic Directors Angelle Hebert and Phillip Kraft of Portland’s tEEth for a contemporary master class that incorporates contemporary dance technique, composition, and improvisation, as well as repertory material from the company’s new work, Make/Believe. Come explore tEEth’s distinctive aesthetic and expand your vocabulary in contemporary performance. All levels welcome. www.teethperformance.com
Hope Mohr: Friday, March 30th 12:00-1:30pm
Class provides a laboratory for expanding our potential for integrated, full-bodied movement. By turning the senses, moving in and out of the floor, and organizing our energy and structure, we work towards clarity of form, awareness of space, and ease of movement. Rigorous phrase work offers an experience of weight, gravity, momentum, sequential movement, and freedom. Influences for teaching include Alexander technique, Trisha Brown repertory, Cunningham technique, and improvisational forms. www.hopemohr.org
Chunky Move: Tuesday, April 10th 4:30-6:00pm
Founded in 1995, Chunky Move has earned an enviable reputation for producing a distinct yet unpredictable brand of genre-defying dance performance. The company seeks to redefine contemporary dance within its ever-evolving Australian culture. The work is diverse in form and content, ranging from stage and site-specific pieces to new-media and installations. In their new piece, Connected, Chunky Move teams up with Californian artist, Ruben Margolin. The result is an animation of both body and machine through physical connection between the dancers and Margolin’s purpose-built, kinetic sculpture. www.chunkymove.com
Kyle Abraham: Tuesday, April 17th 4:30-6:00pm
Kyle Abraham is an artist whose works as a dancer, teacher, and choreographer have been presented throughout Europe and the United States. Abraham draws from his experiences with diverse dance companies such as David Dorfman Dance, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, and The Kevin Wynn Collection and applies this insight to his own teaching. Abraham is best known for dynamic phrase work based on his own self-intuitive movement sensibility often viewed as a hybrid of Hip Hop, Limon, and Cunningham technique. His class emphasizes four specific core values: exploration, musicality, abandonment, and intuition. The opening warm-up sequence focuses on the fluidity of the spine, articulation, and core body strengthening and then builds up to challenging, creative and invigorating phrase work. Students experience a personalized post-modern movement vocabulary full of intricate gestures and fearless floor work. www.abrahaminmotion.org