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W O R K S H O P
w i t h H I L A R Y C L A R K SUNDAY, JANUARY 26 10AM-NOON 33 HAWLEY ST, NORTHAMPTON MA $15/$10 (STUDENT) REGISTER HERE! |
BUT FIRST, don't miss her performance as part of
Bodies In Motion 2020 on January 25th at 7pm!
Details HERE!
Bodies In Motion 2020 on January 25th at 7pm!
Details HERE!
WORKSHOP:
Dancers working presently in the contemporary, experimental dance world are in relation to the historical definitions of “the dancer,” all while deconstructing and recontextualizing its meaning. Dancers are “makers” in their own right inside choreographic structures. With an emphasis on making and creating from the middle, we will focus on scores that bring us closer to our own personal source material. This class aims to get us connected to our poetic bodies - to our physical autobiographies and somatic particularities as source material for making and dancing. I encourage bodies towards pleasure and wildness; bodies that are full and ready to connect and see each other. We will work with somatic practices and improvised scores and learn some set choreography as a means to uncover how our histories may interact with how we "see" and participate in dance making.
I am presently asking a lot of questions about dance training and the value systems created through these practices and their effects on our choices. If we are interested in truly creating a more inclusive dance space, how can we look at training models and ask, What bodies and what ideas were prioritized, and what values and paradigms for success were formed and how do we situate ourselves in relation? How does this reflection of how we engage with these dance values systems shape our choices?
As dancers we are our cultivating and crafting movement choices through so many processes, embodied experiences, dance practices, memories, etc., and I am interested in how we can include more in our dancing.
HILARY:
Hilary Clark is a dancer, teacher and choreographer, who performs in pivotal experimental dance and theater based work, touring nationally and internationally. She was honored with a New York Dance and Performance Award (2008) for sustained achievement most notably with Tere O’Connor, luciana achugar, and Fiona Marcotty. She has also worked with Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People, Young Jean Lee Theater Company, Luke George, Jen Rosenblit, Jon Kinzel, Chemeki and Lerner, Larissa Velez Jackson, Keyon Gaskin and Gerard and Kelly. As a 2015 Artist in Residence at collective address (NYC), she explored the role and work of the dancer through dialogues and interviews as well as developing Duet for/with/including Jen (1 - 4). Other creative residencies include Fresh Tracks and Studio Series (Dance Theater Workshop), and Dance and Process (The Kitchen). Her work has been shown at Roulette, Aunts, Danspace Project, The Kitchen, Dixon Place, Mt. Tremper Arts, Dance Theater Workshop, and Painted Bride in Philadelphia. In 2013, she was invited by Stockholm University of the Arts, University of Dance and Circus (DOCH) in Stockholm, Sweden, to participate in the academic conference “Dancer as Agent.” Her work as a performer and choreographer is documented in Jenn Joy’s book The Choreographic (MIT, 2014). Clark has taught at Chunky Move (Australia), Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Pacific NorthWest College of Art (Oregon), Seattle Festival for Dance Improvisation at Velocity Dance Center (Seattle, WA) and Movement Research (NYC). She is the owner of Citrine Pilates & Wellness and is currently a teaching fellow and MFA candidate at Bennington College.
Dancers working presently in the contemporary, experimental dance world are in relation to the historical definitions of “the dancer,” all while deconstructing and recontextualizing its meaning. Dancers are “makers” in their own right inside choreographic structures. With an emphasis on making and creating from the middle, we will focus on scores that bring us closer to our own personal source material. This class aims to get us connected to our poetic bodies - to our physical autobiographies and somatic particularities as source material for making and dancing. I encourage bodies towards pleasure and wildness; bodies that are full and ready to connect and see each other. We will work with somatic practices and improvised scores and learn some set choreography as a means to uncover how our histories may interact with how we "see" and participate in dance making.
I am presently asking a lot of questions about dance training and the value systems created through these practices and their effects on our choices. If we are interested in truly creating a more inclusive dance space, how can we look at training models and ask, What bodies and what ideas were prioritized, and what values and paradigms for success were formed and how do we situate ourselves in relation? How does this reflection of how we engage with these dance values systems shape our choices?
As dancers we are our cultivating and crafting movement choices through so many processes, embodied experiences, dance practices, memories, etc., and I am interested in how we can include more in our dancing.
HILARY:
Hilary Clark is a dancer, teacher and choreographer, who performs in pivotal experimental dance and theater based work, touring nationally and internationally. She was honored with a New York Dance and Performance Award (2008) for sustained achievement most notably with Tere O’Connor, luciana achugar, and Fiona Marcotty. She has also worked with Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People, Young Jean Lee Theater Company, Luke George, Jen Rosenblit, Jon Kinzel, Chemeki and Lerner, Larissa Velez Jackson, Keyon Gaskin and Gerard and Kelly. As a 2015 Artist in Residence at collective address (NYC), she explored the role and work of the dancer through dialogues and interviews as well as developing Duet for/with/including Jen (1 - 4). Other creative residencies include Fresh Tracks and Studio Series (Dance Theater Workshop), and Dance and Process (The Kitchen). Her work has been shown at Roulette, Aunts, Danspace Project, The Kitchen, Dixon Place, Mt. Tremper Arts, Dance Theater Workshop, and Painted Bride in Philadelphia. In 2013, she was invited by Stockholm University of the Arts, University of Dance and Circus (DOCH) in Stockholm, Sweden, to participate in the academic conference “Dancer as Agent.” Her work as a performer and choreographer is documented in Jenn Joy’s book The Choreographic (MIT, 2014). Clark has taught at Chunky Move (Australia), Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Pacific NorthWest College of Art (Oregon), Seattle Festival for Dance Improvisation at Velocity Dance Center (Seattle, WA) and Movement Research (NYC). She is the owner of Citrine Pilates & Wellness and is currently a teaching fellow and MFA candidate at Bennington College.
