SCDT and freeskewl present:
TEEN CONTEMPORARY TECHNIQUES (ages 13+)
Tuesdays, 5-6pm Eastern Time
WINTER SESSION: January 11-March 28th
with Oluwadamilare (Dare) Ayorinde and Ogemdi Ude
SPRING SESSION: March 29th-June 13th
with Sofia Engelman & Em Papineau and Nattie Trogdon & Hollis Bartlett
TEEN CONTEMPORARY TECHNIQUES (ages 13+)
Tuesdays, 5-6pm Eastern Time
WINTER SESSION: January 11-March 28th
with Oluwadamilare (Dare) Ayorinde and Ogemdi Ude
SPRING SESSION: March 29th-June 13th
with Sofia Engelman & Em Papineau and Nattie Trogdon & Hollis Bartlett
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WINTER SESSION:
FIRST HALF with Oluwadamilare (Dare) Ayorinde: Class will start with a guided warm up to center our bodies and mind. We will then move into improvisational tasked that will incorporate movement, voice and imagination. The improvisations will be a means to self discovery and movement invention. Oluwadamilare (Dare) Ayorinde is Nigerian - Black freelance performing artist living in New Jersey. Since Rutgers University he has worked with Colleen Thomas, Bill Young, Stefanie Batten Bland, Kayla Farrish, The Trisha Brown Dance Company, Kyle Marshall and more. He has begun presenting work in NYC and New Jersey. Last year he was Dance on the Lawn's fifth Emerging Choreographer and a Chez Bushwick resident. He is named top 25 to watch in Dance Magazine for 2020. SECOND HALF with Ogemdi Ude: In this class, we will become physical storytellers. Using dance and dialogue, we will learn how to creatively share new and old narratives and build choreography skills for a variety of performance contexts. Bring an excited body, open mind, and pen and paper! Ogemdi Ude is a Nigerian-American dance artist, educator, and doula based in Brooklyn. As an artist and educator, she supports others in investigating their cultural, familial, and personal histories - how they are embedded in their bodies and influence their everyday and performative movement. Her work has been presented at Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Danspace Project, Gibney, Center for Performance Research, Movement Research at the Judson Church, Streb Lab for Action Mechanics, Lewis Center for the Arts, La Mama Courthouse, and for BAM's DanceAfrica festival. She currently serves as Head of Movement for Drama at Professional Performing Arts School in Manhattan. |
Photo by Chidozie Ekwensi.
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SPRING SESSION:
FIRST HALF with Nattie Trogdon and Hollis Bartlett: Together we will practice. We will practice being our whole selves - practice moving into and through and with ourselves. We will practice feeling, questioning, writing, reading, (maybe) screaming and listening. Yes we will dance, we will sweat, shake and try out some old moves and some new moves. There will be technical exercises, improvisation scores, a little bit of anatomy, and maybe phrasework. We will at times rest and speak our thoughts about dance but also about our world and our lives and what we’re struggling with and where we find joy. But mostly we’re just gonna let go of any judgments we have or fears we face and be in our spaces - in our zoom spaces and home spaces and our together apart spaces - and we’re gonna practice together. Hollis and Nattie are makers, performers, teachers, and partners. Their collaborative practice stems from a fascination with the form and function of the body – researching both the anatomical and fantastical. Currently residing in Brooklyn, their work has been presented at venues across New York and New England. As educators they co-facilitate open classes and workshops throughout the city and at various universities. Hollis has danced with Doug Varone since 2011 and Nattie is a freelance artist having performed most recently with Doug Varone, Keith Johnson, David Dorfman, and Peter DiMuro. They are graduates of NYU Tisch and SUNY Purchase respectively, receiving their BFAs in dance performance. SECOND HALF with Sofia Engelman & Em Papineau Let's dance together on Zoom! We will warm ourselves and practice full, unapologetic embodiment through the practice of phrase work, improvisation, and follow-along exercises. Prepare to sweat, stretch, and listen to some good tunes. Sofia Engelman + Em Papineau are dance and life partners living on the homelands of the Canarsie and Munsee Lenape (Brooklyn, NY). They are two of the initiators of freeskewl and are both on staff at Contact Quarterly and SCDT. The duo have presented work at festivals including FRESH Festival, EstroGenius Festival, AS220's Providence Movement Festival, and Dancing Queerly Boston; music/DIY venues such as 10 Forward and Flywheel; and other spaces they love dearly including Judson Church, Green Street Studios, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, SCDT, The Dance Complex, Ponderosa, and Smith College. As teens, they both had incredible dance teachers who cracked their worlds wide open and inspired them to keep dancing. |
Hollis Bartlett and Nattie Trogdon
Em Papineau and Sofia Engelman
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For more programming through freeskewl, please visit www.freeskewl.com.
