IMPROVISATION AS TECHNIQUE
"Replace ambition with curiosity" - Nancy Stark Smith
We will practice a variety of improvisational "scores" or guidelines and games which support your technical and artistic development. Improvisation is the study of making spontaneous choices in the moment- which, if you think about it, we are doing ALL THE TIME, in life! So, we are studying our own relationship to why we choose what we choose, what we see as possible within each score, and broaden our understanding of how improvisation is used in dance making. By improvising, we become more coordinated, articulate, confident, curious and aware.
JEN POLINS
Jennifer Polins is a curator, mobilizer, movement practitioner and performance maker, bridging somatics -performance practices- and contemporary dance techniques for over 25 years. Jen is the founding director of The School for Contemporary Dance and Thought, holds an MFA in dance from Hollins University/The American Dance Festival and is a 2014 MCC choreographic fellow. Jen is also the assistant programmer for A.P.E.@Hawley. She has danced professionally in America and Europe, starting with the Joffrey Ballet, Milwaukee Ballet and then the Zurich Operahouse Ballet companies before migrating to a professional career in contemporary performance art.
See her work HERE.
"Replace ambition with curiosity" - Nancy Stark Smith
We will practice a variety of improvisational "scores" or guidelines and games which support your technical and artistic development. Improvisation is the study of making spontaneous choices in the moment- which, if you think about it, we are doing ALL THE TIME, in life! So, we are studying our own relationship to why we choose what we choose, what we see as possible within each score, and broaden our understanding of how improvisation is used in dance making. By improvising, we become more coordinated, articulate, confident, curious and aware.
JEN POLINS
Jennifer Polins is a curator, mobilizer, movement practitioner and performance maker, bridging somatics -performance practices- and contemporary dance techniques for over 25 years. Jen is the founding director of The School for Contemporary Dance and Thought, holds an MFA in dance from Hollins University/The American Dance Festival and is a 2014 MCC choreographic fellow. Jen is also the assistant programmer for A.P.E.@Hawley. She has danced professionally in America and Europe, starting with the Joffrey Ballet, Milwaukee Ballet and then the Zurich Operahouse Ballet companies before migrating to a professional career in contemporary performance art.
See her work HERE.
