Authentic Movement class
Authentic Movement Practice, Tuesdays 10-12pm.
No prior experience with Authentic Movement or dance necessary. Class size limited, please pre-register HERE. Katie Workum and when we are lucky Darrin Wright will facilitate.
First class Tuesday, March 5th.
Signup sheet HERE Walk-ins are welcome, but there is a participant cap, pre-registration highly recommended. $15
Authentic Movement is an expressive improvisational movement practice that allows a group of participants a type of free association of the body. It’s a seemingly simple form of self-directed movement, usually done with eyes closed and attention directed inward, in the presence of at least one witness. Movers explore spontaneous gestures, movements, and stillness, following inner impulses in the present moment.
Michelle Boulé Workshop: ONE dance
MICHELLE BOULÉ is an award-winning Dance Artist, Healer, and Transformational Coach who uses depth, intuitive insights, and passion to guide her students towards their unique mastery. The work begins with self-Awareness to align with one’s own Inner Authority, so that “life” movement (aka creative expression, decision-making, and leadership) comes with confidence and ease.
Michelle was based in NYC for 21 years, where she danced primarily with Miguel Gutierrez, John Jasperse, Deborah Hay, and John Scott, and where her work was presented by Issue Project Room, Danspace, River to River, The Chocolate Factory, The Kitchen, Movement Research at Judson Church, and Met Breuer, amongst others.
She brings the same creativity, embodiment, passionate devotion, and meticulous attention to mindset that created her international dance career, to help usher her students through profound transformation. With nearly 30 years of practice in somatic therapies, energy medicine, mindset psychology, and spirituality, the heart of her work is LOVE.
PEPTALK: so long so long
PEPTALK is a dance project created by Marin Day and Maddie Hopfield. They performed an excerpt of their latest work so long, so long at The Brick as part of ?!: New Works, and are bringing the evening-length version to Kestrels June 6-9! In so long, so long Marin and Maddie use movement and voice to create functionless machines, craft physical love letters, and chase their wandering minds as they remember a decade of disjointed fantasies and failures.
Thursday-Sunday June 5-9th, 7:30pm, except Sunday 5PM matinee
Now and Then: Mariana and Katie
Mariana and Katie share an evening of reimagined solos.
AND WE ARE: having met in 2013-ish as Chez Bushwick AIRS. Little did we know then that we were simultaneously beginning new ways to make work and honor the dances that lived inside our bodies. And now we are here, turned around so much that we found each other 10 years down the road. We have deepened and returned to our dances in ways that fit who we are now. We have our stories to tell and these bodies to move. AND THIS IS: Mariana reinterprets a dance that she made a decade ago. She upholds the improvisatory and lyrical qualities of the work, two essential elements of her research since. Within her current—older yet newer—body, she’s chasing after the remnants of something that’s aged well over time. MEANWHILE: Katie re-works a solo made in 2022 newly titled We Must Take the Canoe. This piece marked a return to set work after a 10 year departure into Authentic Movement and improvisational forms. She wades deep into historical fantastical scenarios, American myths of pioneering and conquest, personal and imagined anecdotes to construct a self.
Saturday and Sunday May 18+19, 5PM
$20 suggested donation.
Flesh House
FLESH HOUSE A new dance PREMIERE by Molly Poerstel
Tuesday-Saturday, February 20th-24th 2024. 7:30pm
Three veteran dance performers Monte Jones, Molly Poerstel, and Eleanor Smith inhabit the rooms of Kestrels by exposing personal mythologies, old truths, and interlapping experiences. TICKETS
Monster Mourning
Dance Theater by Weena Pauly and Katie Workum, with live music by Annie Hart
Weena and Katie traverse the long tethers of time through shaken-up fantasy worlds, characters built from their lacking and over-ing, and through the filtered groundwater of their kinship of the last 25 years. They concoct forgotten tales of vaguely euro-lineages and fables into a disjointed present. They navigate connection steeped in inherited competitions and codes of femaleness, while time traveling their own ages and bodies through their love language of hair-braiding and awkward clog dancing. Monster Mourning includes live music by the multi talented musician and composer Annie Hart.
APAP show Sunday January 14th, 2024 at 3:00 with reception immediately following
AfterPAP shows Friday and Saturday Jan 19th+20th, 2024 7:30pm
Nicole Mannarino
10 Seconds til Midnight
Artistic Direction, Choreography, and Performance by: Nicole Mannarino
Choreography and Performance By: Ariel Lembeck, Belinda Ju, Laura Witsken, Reché Nelson, Samira Mendoza, & Tanasha G
Juliana May is teaching class
Juliana May will be teaching class Mondays and Wednesdays Sept 18-Oct 4, 2023. 10-12pm
Choreographic Idiom Drop in Class Series
reserve a spot by emailing jfmdances@gmail.com
Maya Lee-Parritz
The American Sun
Thursday-Saturday June 8th-10th and Friday+Saturday 16th+17th, 2023
This work features Tim Bendernagel, Cayleen Del Rosario, Rachel Gill, Gwendolyn Knapp, Patty Lin, Owen Prum, and Anna Therese Witenberg, with additional music by Russell O'Rourke and photographic set by Sadaf Azadehfar.
Please pay at the level you are able--all proceeds go directly to the artists. Nobody will be turned away for lack of funds; if you need a further reduced or free ticket, please let me know (no questions asked). TICKETS
Monster Mourning
Weena Pauly and Katie Workum present their dance theater duet Monster Mourning.
Music and live instrumentation by Annie Hart. Set design by Darrin Wright.
Thursday-Saturday May 18-20th
Wednesday+Thursday Mat 24+25th