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SOMATIC SURVIVAL STRATEGIES #5

Yielding into abundance / Then what?
with Thomas F. DeFrantz and Jennifer Nugent

​March 19-21, 2021
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Friday, March 19 • 12:00-3:00pm Eastern / 9:00am-12:00pm Pacific
Saturday, March 20 • 12:00-3:00pm Eastern / 9:00am-12:00pm Pacific
Sunday, March 21 • 12:00-2:00pm Eastern / 9:00-11:00am Pacific

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Full Workshop: $110 - $300
**Fees waived for BIPoC (Self Identified). Please email Leah at [email protected] to register!
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Yielding into abundance / Then what?
We move.  Prioritizing attuned awareness, perception, proprioception, and the unfolding of how we perceive ourselves in motion, we lean towards creating pathways for considering and acknowledging modes of thought shared inside the container of our time together.  How do we collectively describe this workshop? In which ways are we surviving collectively and in solo form asking for support? How might we experience information that affords us to move deeper towards or step away? Or both. In the end does this workshop describe itself? What would it be like to suspend the details in motion, in writing, in material, and always in process?

Thomas F. DeFrantz directs SLIPPAGE: Performance|Culture|Technology, a research group that explores emerging technology in live performance applications, currently in residence at Duke University.  DeFrantz received the 2017 Outstanding Research in Dance award from the Dance Studies Association. DeFrantz believes in our shared capacity to do better, and to engage our creative spirit for a collective good that is anti-racist, anti-homophobic, proto-feminist, and queer affirming. DeFrantz acted as a consultant for the Smithsonian Museum of African American Life and Culture,  contributing concept and a voice-over for a permanent installation on Black Social Dance that opened with the museum in 2016. Recent teaching: University of the Arts Mobile MFA in Dance; ImPulsTanz; New Waves Institute; Bates Dance Festival ; faculty at Hampshire College, Stanford, Yale, MIT, NYU, University of Nice. In 2013, working with Takiyah Nur Amin, DeFrantz founded the Collegium for African Diaspora Dance, a growing consortium of 300 researchers.  slippage.org.

Jennifer Nugent is originally from Hollywood, Florida, and has been living and working in New York City since 1998. Her practices are profoundly inspired by Daniel Lepkoff, Wendell Beavers, Patty Townsend, Thomas F. DeFrantz, and Paul Matteson. Through performing and teaching she aims to nurture the proposition of physicality as a theoretical and complex language that resides inside a rejuvenating container of possibility. Jennifer continues to augment these practices through sharing and refining ideas in front of others—a transmission of spoken and gestural language.

Since living in NYC Jennifer has performed most notably with Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company (NYC 2009-2014), Paul Matteson (NYC 2002-2020), David Dorfman Dance from (NYC 1999-2007), and Martha Clarke (NYC 2007-2008). In 2019 Jennifer received an MFA in Dance from The University of the Arts, Philadelphia. She is currently a teaching artist at Gibney Dance (NYC), Sarah Lawrence College, (NY), and the virtual platform freeskewl where she hosts a monthly series called pedagogy/poetic entry.

​If you have questions, please get in touch!
​Email us at [email protected].
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Thomas F. DeFrantz, 2020. Photo by Scott Shaw
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Jennifer Nugent, 2019. Photo by Miles Yeung.
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