Ready For Risk an In-Person SE+AM Weekend (Somatic Experiencing + Authentic Movement) 
with Weena Pauly-Tarr and Karine Bell

Two-day Workshop: Saturday and Sunday, July 18th & 19th
10am-4pm each day

An in-person intensive weekend extending Rooted Global Village’s virtual 3-month program, Ready For Risk, into an in-person group experience open to all. You do not need to have experience with the Ready For Risk program, only a desire to dive deeply into the patterns that show up when you are seen and the patterns that shape how you see others. 

Somatic Experiencing (SE) is the lens and Authentic Movement (AM) is the practice as participants explore what patterns arise when we are compassionately witnessed in our bodies, and when we bring our own gaze to the bodies of our fellow movers within the container of relationship. 

Using this SE+AM modality, we’ll work with the patterns we rely on to feel “safe”: the ways we move toward and away, the roles we fall into in groups and relationships, and the ways we protect, reveal, adapt, or brace in everyday interactions. Through guided motion, nervous system tracking, witnessing practices, movement improvisation, and shared inquiry, we’ll explore how these patterns impact our relationships, our choices, decision-making, creativity, connection, and capacity for showing up authentically to ourselves and others.

This work is not about getting rid of protection patterns, but about becoming more aware of how they shape our experience and behavior in real time. As we build awareness and clarity, we create more room for choice, responsiveness, honesty, and relational skillfulness. 

Sign-up Here

www.weenapauly.com

www.rootedglobalvillage.com

Space opens at 945am/ lunch break 12-1pm/ finish at 345pm/ vacate space by 4pm

*accessibility: 2nd floor walk up, all-gender restroom, most prompts through voice, partnering or touch only with consent

$374 for the full weekend (no partial or single days offered)

Object Permanence
a half-silent playbased on true events

created and directed by Nico Krell
creative producer: Theresa Buchheister
associate director: Ethan Eva Karas

featuring Sydney Chow, Mia Fowler, Carsyn Gekas, Marc Anthony Gutierrez, Healy Knight, Khali Sykes and Felix Teich

Friday, Saturday, Sunday
July 17-19  •  7:30pm

TICKETS

In a house where every sneeze is dangerous, every footstep is calculated, and every attachment is a liability, seven siblings turn silence into an art form.
Their captors want perfect stillness — but the siblings master the choreography of silent communication.
They invent. They entertain. They keep watch. And, with an impossible self-control, they teach themselves how to disappear.

Object Permanence is a half-silent drama based on true events — a bizarre household fueled by vehement play, a peculiar ecosystem, teetering hierarchies, and partnerships with lit fuses. Through physical feats, the captive siblings eke out an idea of what is real, and what doesn’t exist.

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Authentic Movement Practice Class, Moving to TUESDAYS 10-12pm for MAY and JUNE, 2026
NO CLASS JUNE 16TH.

No prior experience with Authentic Movement or dance necessary. Class size limited, please pre-register.  Katie Workum to facilitate.

Signup sheet HERE
There is a participant cap, pre-registration highly recommended. $15
New: signup slots will go live the first of each month.

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.

Sundays, April 26 and May 10 11am-2pm

Please Sign-up Here

Price: $90 for both sessions

ABOUT Choreographic Sketches
Join Netta Yerushalmy for two sessions of choreographic sketches in April and May. This workshop includes a technique warm up class that feeds into learning and manipulating materials, experimenting with creative methodologies and group compositions. This is an incubator for dancers who are interested in trying on Netta’s materials and choreographic ideas, and cultivating a creative community. Let’s dance and try things together.

Limited Space: this workshop is geared towards dancers in the professional field. Students still enrolled in academic programs will be admitted if space allows.

Questions? DM @nettayerushalmydances on Instagram

Instagram.com/nettayerushalmydances

https://nettay.squarespace.com/

Tuesdays April 14, 21, 28 and May 5: 10a-12p

Please RSVP (walk-ins are welcome, but advance registration is appreciated).

Price + payment
$45–100 sliding scale for the 4-class series
$10–30 drop-in

Limited guest spots available — no one turned away.
Email adrienne@adriennewestwood.com to request a guest spot:)

Venmo: @via.artscorp
PayPal: via.artscorp@gmail.com
Or cash at the door.

Access needs? Let me know so I can accommodate: adrienne@adriennewestwood.com

ABOUT PERSON, PLACE & THING
a movement / multi-disciplinary workshop focused on creative process

This four-session workshop explores three generative entry points for moving and making, including, you guessed it, person (the body), place (sites, locations, histories), and thing (objects and materials). 

Each of the first three sessions will focus on one of these lenses, drawing on multiple modalities to generate material and experiments. The fourth session will turn toward arranging, composing, and reflecting on what has emerged.

The series grows out of creative processes I’ve been developing and using in my own interdisciplinary work. After teaching in different formats over the years, this class gathers and synthesizes these approaches into a shared workshop space.

Come try it out with me.

This class resonates with dancers wanting to tap into creative impulses, writers curious about embodiment, theater makers exploring new approaches to devising, and anyone interested in interdisciplinary processes. If you're unsure whether it’s for you, feel free to reach out.

You’re welcome to drop in for a single session or join the full sequence. The workshop meets you where you are and expands from there.

RSVP here

Adrienne Westwood is a Brooklyn-based director, choreographer, and interdisciplinary artist whose multi-layered work incorporates objects into embodied explorations of memory, bringing traces of other times and places into the present moment. Her work for cottages, flip books, nooks, crannies, screens, gardens, voicemails, a truck, as well as traditional theaters, been presented widely in NYC and at Jacob's Pillow, CCN-Ballet de Lorraine (France), WUK (Vienna), The Firkin Crane (Ireland), ODC Theater (San Francisco), and The Philly Fringe. Her work has also been called “a finely crafted progression” (Lisa Kraus, The Philadelphia Inquirer) and noted for its “precision, attention to detail and unspecific but tangible sense of the barely remembered” (Andy Horwitz, Culturebot). 

Adrienne was a 2024 Harvestworks artist in residence for [ ], her radical collaboration with composer Angélica Negrón; a 2023 Lead Artist at Mercury Store for her interdisciplinary project “box/truck;” and a 2018-19 CUNY Dance Initiative recipient through which she created “s  o  u  n d i n g line” for Snug Harbor’s historic Gardener's Cottage. Recent support includes BRIClab, NYSCA Support for Artists, a Lincoln Center space grant, a 2023-24 New Jewish Culture Fellowship, and a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant. Recent residencies include Barnard Movement Lab and SLIPPGE Lab at Northwestern University (dir. Prof. Thomas DeFrantz). Adrienne is proud to have received the pilot Parent-Artist Space Grant from Brooklyn Arts Exchange through which she developed her work “Record” (2012).  

As an educator, Adrienne has shared her practice widely as a guest artist, including at Dickinson College, US Berkeley, Chautauqua Institution, University of NC School of the Arts, and for classclassclass, as well as on faculty for "FSU in NYC," University of the Arts, and SUNY Fredonia. From 2011-2018, she served on the selection committee for “The Bessies” NY Dance and Performance Awards. BFA: University of NC School of the Arts, MFA: Hollins University/ADF under the close mentorship of Donna Faye Burchfield.

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At Matins or Evensong
Choreographed by Emma Judkins
Performed by Emma Judkins and Grace Yi-Li Tong
Music by Adam Schatz

Thursday through Saturday, March 19th through 21st.
7:30pm
$25 general admission
$20 early bird special, expires March 9th

TICKETS

At Matins or Evensong is an evening-length dance rooted in time, reverence, darkness, and beauty. It stems from an obsession with the late summer ubiquitousness of the goldenrod plant in my childhood home state of Maine and surrounding Northeast. For a little over three weeks, this bright yellow wildflower appears everywhere, covering fields, highway medians, and backyards, and then starts to disappear, announcing the beginning of the end. Its reliable lifecycle led me to regard the plant’s timely blooming as not only a tether to the passage of time and personal change, but as a universal signifier of the fold of the year, the tumbling, light-chasing, equinoctial slip of the season’s shift. This interval of moving from light to dark and back is archetypal; it lives in the turn of the day, years, phases internal and communal. I draw on these repetitions, attempting to notate the religiosity of vanishing light, the quiet witnessing of heading into the dark.

BIOS:

Emma Judkins is a freelance dancer and performer based in Brooklyn, NY with roots in the Northeast. She graduated summa cum laude from Connecticut College with a BA in Dance and French in 2011. Described by The New York Times as “terrific” and having “a natural, winning, clarity,” she has performed most recently with Beth Gill, Tere O’Connor, Anna Sperber, and Pavel Zustiak/Palissimo Company. Past artistic and performing collaborations include Laurel Snyder/Adam Schatz, The Space We Make, Kendra Portier/BANDPortier, Amber Sloan, Derrick Belcham & Emily Terndrup, Phantom Limb Company, Cortney Andrews, and Kyle Abraham/A.I.M. Emma has collaborated with Asli Bulbul, Eleanor Hullihan and Jimmy Jolliff on an improvisational performance project called Deborah since 2019. Many years ago, when she first moved to NYC, Emma shared her own dance work in living rooms and at no-longer existing venues. She has recently re-ignited her choreographic spirit. Early stages of At Matins or Evensong were supported by residencies at Bennington College and she has shown excerpts at the Sundays on Broadway series at WeisAcres, and in a backyard in southeastern Vermont during 2025. Outside of dancing, she is an Administrative Assistant to a private family foundation and a freelance administrator and bookkeeper.

Instagram: @emmamkins
Website: www.emmajudkins.com

Grace Yi-Li Tong (she/her) is a playful Chinese-American dancer and choreographer based in New York. Grace holds a BFA in Dance and a minor in Gender and Sexuality Studies from NYU Tisch School of the Arts, and has recently performed with: the Metropolitan Opera/Annie-B Parson, Patricia Hoffbauer, Beth Gill, Luis A., Kristel Baldoz, and more. As a choreographer, she has recently presented work at Performance Garage (Philadelphia, PA), the NOD Theater (Seattle, WA), Snug Harbor Cultural Center, The Center for Ballet Arts, Flushing Town Hall, Triskelion Arts, and more. Her commercial credits include collaborations with Tod’s Shoes, Yayi Chen, bluetrails, Kevin Sun, and more. 

Instagram: @graceytong
Website: www.gracetong.com

Authentic Movement Practice Class, WEDNESDAYS 10-12pm.

CLASS CANCELLED APRIL 15TH!

No prior experience with Authentic Movement or dance necessary. Class size limited, please pre-register.  Katie Workum to facilitate.

Signup sheet HERE
There is a participant cap, pre-registration highly recommended. $15
New: signup slots will go live the first of each month.

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.

friday february 6th, 13th, 20th, 27th: 10a-12p

please RSVP: walk-ins are welcome, but there is a participant cap, pre-registration highly recommended.

$15-30 sliding scale/ pay what you can. please pay at or before class.

for payment: venmo- @marion-spencer / paypal- marion.l.spencer@gmail.com / zelle for that email as well / cash also accepted

about morning class/

morning class is a highly imaginative + highly physical investigation of ourselves as movers. Together, we cultivate a space for building curiosity, community, care and rigor by embracing experimentation, kindness and the joy of movement. This is a laboratory: risk and failure are encouraged, as they are part of the learning process. We work from the body we bring each day, and we are invited to call upon all the techniques and herstories/theystories/histories that our bodies hold. Class begins with a sensation-based collage of improvisation, somatics and set sequences rooted in the technical fundamentals of euro-american release technique and postmodern dance. We follow impulses that lie just beneath the surface of the skin and deep inside our bones. We might engage in consent-based partner stretches and small group improvisation exercises. Class culminates with a set-ish phrase that encourages cultivating individual choicemaking and artistry within the material.

i consider class both a functional and sacred practice. I adore the magic that is created when people come together for the sake of attending to our bodies and creativities. It feels inherently radical- learning, working, building community, sharing practice with no product or end in mind other than the here and now of showing up. Please come get what you need, please ask for what you need. All levels are welcome, however please note that this class is structured for movers & dance artists with a regular physical practice.

RSVP here

about marion/

marion spencer is a Bessie Award-nominated interdisciplinary dance artist living in Lenapehoking/Brooklyn. Through a poetic and subversive weaving of artistic mediums including movement, sound and installation, marion creates solo and ensemble performances that excavate extinction, adaptation and futurity. Her practice is feminine, feminist and interdisciplinary. Her work has been presented in NYC by La Mama Experimental Theatre, Roulette Intermedium, Center for Performance Research, Danspace Project, Gibney, New Dance Alliance, Movement Research at Judson Church, Triskelion Arts, and more. She has been an Artist in Residence at MacDowell, The American Dance Festival, The Chocolate Factory Theater, Gibney, The Field Center, Amherst College and Mana Contemporary, among others. As a performer, marion has had the pleasure of collaborating with Joanna Kotze, Laurie Berg, BAND|portier, Laura Peterson, Larissa Velez-Jackson, Michelle Boulé, Tyler Rai and as a guest performer with David Dorfman Dance and the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company. She has been on faculty at Rutgers University, Sarah Lawrence College, Gibney, Peridance, Dancewave and more. Her teaching practice is forever evolving and forever influenced by lessons from mentors/ teachers/ friends - Kendra Portier, Michelle Boulé, Jennifer Nugent, Joanna Kotze, Luciana Achugar, Miguel Gutierrez, Samita Sinha, Angie Pittman, John Jasperse, Anna Sperber, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Yanira Castro, Janet Panetta, Lisa Race, Vicky Shick & Laura Stein. She holds an MFA in Dance: Interdisciplinary Research from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts (2025), and a BA with Honors in Geography-Anthropology from Vassar College (2009).

photo by Anna Maynard

Hadar Ahuvia presents two different works over two nights!
Wednesday and Thursday
January 14th & 15th, 2026
7:30pm
$20 each night, tickets sold separately

Wednesday: nefesh  

A solo performance by hadar ahuvia exploring, reclaiming and corporealizing the details of the Eastern European Jewish soundscape. (solo, 28 min) followed by Q&A with Jesse Zarrit

Performance and vocals by hadar ahuvia
Sound design and additional vocals by Tatyana Tenenbaum
Costume design by Athena Kokoronis
Lighting Design by Cameron Barnett

nefesh tickets

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Thursday: FieldWork, NYC premiere

by hadar ahuvia with Jesse Zaritt and Bria Bacon
Live davening (prayer chanting) lead by Yoel Kohn, with Sara Feldman, Ruth Geye, Cantor Zachary Konigsberg, Cantor Sam Levine, Lili Rosen
Lighting Design by Niall Jones
Stage management by Cameron Barnett

Field Work proposes Ashkenazi davening (prayer) as a model for collective being and interdependence. The soundscape of a traditional morning service becomes a score for action- unmetered voices flow in unruly streams, pockets of heterophonic unison hold space for individual yearning within collective action; listening and moving bodies open a field for imagining diversity of relationships. 

FieldWork tickets

FieldWork (formerly nefesh) is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council. It is also supported by the Center for New Jewish Culture. 

10am-noon (doors open 945), no class thanksgiving week 11/28 NO CLASS 12/19. last class 12/12
$20-30 sliding scale

drop-is welcome, and, the material builds over the classes (both are true!)
accessibility: 2nd floor walk up, all-gender restroom, most prompts through voice

Somatics for Movers is a space to be with who you are, collapsing time with who you have been and might be, experiencing, imagining, witnessing.

The heart of this class is a verbally guided somatic movement exploration—an extended, meditative improvisation shaped by felt sense, imagery, and internal cues. Each person moves at their own pace, following their unique range of motion and inner experience. We often draw from developmental movement patterns—both pre-birth and post-birth—exploring the early states, patterns and capacities that continue to live in our bodies.

This class is accessible to adults with or without prior movement training. If you're curious about how we move—and how movement shapes how we feel, think, and relate—this class is for you.

Sign up here

Kestrels x Gowanus Open Studios 2025

Kestrels is participating in this year's Gowanus Open Studios!

Saturday, Oct 18 12-8pm & Sunday, Oct 19 11-6pm

More details to follow

Authentic Movement Practice Class, WEDNESDAYS 10-12pm, starting Sept 10th. Sept 2nd is the last summer TUESDAY

No prior experience with Authentic Movement or dance necessary. Class size limited, please pre-register.  Katie Workum and Darrin Wright facilitate.

Signup sheet HERE
There is a participant cap, pre-registration highly recommended. $15
New: signup slots will go live the first of each month.

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.

TWO NIGHTS!
THURSDAY and FRIDAY JULY 31st and AUGUST 1st

TICKETS

A new dance by Emily Barasch

In Intimacy for the Apocalypse, a structure of unstable assemblages shifts over time as three dancers develop emergent, co-constituted logics to find stability and support within their material conditions. As the performers engage in gestural looping, tuning scores, and task-based scenarios, they develop new relational practices for embodied logics of survival. Intimacy for the Apocalypse investigates how bodies and environments can be reoriented out of collapse, giving way to intra- dependent speculative futures.

Concept and Choreography: Emily Barasch                                                                                      Performed by: Emily Barasch, Miya Shaffer, Brendan Drake                                                            Sound Design and Composition: Jesse Perlstein                                                                                    Sculpture Design: Jules Johnston

instagram: @emilybthatsme

website: www.emilyrbarasch.com

Mor Mendel is offering a three week workshop. A Gathering of Movement, no right or wrong. It’s the pure joy of dance and the poetry of our life through movement.

$15 per class
$40 for all three classes
For sign up and more informations email Mor.

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www.mormendel.com

SHOW ADDED!
SATURDAY JUNE 7th at 3:00!

Wednesday through Saturdays
May 28th-June 7th, 2025

TICKETS

A New Dance Theater Work by Weena Pauly and Katie Workum

Original score played live by Annie Hart

This is part three: THE FUTURE.  The record is skipping and the casio keyboards are fritzing.  The scifi/fantasy fantasy is in the room and the biodome is failing.  The wellness seminar is going off the rails and the tantalizing lure of perfection withholds meaning and results.  Chaos and harmony, purity and disease; this is our distorted fantasy and inevitable sideways-facing of the F word: The future.  This slippery golem that refracts and distorts as we hurtle into it, falling and clawing as it swallows us up, spits us out, looking pretty much the same and albeit a bit weathered and altogether shifted again and again and again. 

INSTAGRAM

Friday & Saturday, 7pm

TICKETS

Step into a world of curiosity and contradiction with Beautiful Little Weirdos, an evening of bold, evocative movement that celebrates the strange, the surreal, and the deeply personal. The program features the premiere of two works: After the Applause and Echoes of Absurdity.

After the Applause, a captivating solo by Amber Sloan embraces humor, vulnerability, and the unpredictability of an ever-shifting reality. Echoes of Absurdity, a quartet performed by Shawn Brush, Ching-I Chang, Chelsea Enjer Hecht, and Jordan Morley, with costumes by Meagan Woods, navigates the tension between order and disruption, humor and unease.

Through intricate choreography and raw physicality, these works examine the absurdity of existence, the beauty in the unconventional, and the voices that refuse to conform. Join us at Kestrels for a night of compelling performances that challenge perception and invite you to embrace the weird.

www.ambersloan.com

Photo credit: Rebecca Marcela Oviatt; Dancers in photo: Daniel Morimoto, Chelsea Enjer Hecht, and Jordan Morley

Christy and Julie come together to present new works in progress, after 30 years of seeing, discussing, and supporting each other’s choreographic experimentation.

TWO NIGHTS ONLY!

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With performers Julian Barnett, Emily Hansel, Mia Martelli, Courtney Moreno, Jordan Patt, Phoenicia Pettyjohn, Glenn Potter-Takata

Lighting and Production Support by Ben Demarest

Funsch's SetList collides two of her works-in-progress from 2024: PastPerfect, created in the spring in San Francisco, and experimental shards made throughout New York State over the summer. SetList careens through the debris fields of the two processes, nourishing vestigial desires from these past explorations. The past processes are embedded in the structure of the new work, where their tattered edges provide undercurrents of tension. SetList is a work in conversation with its component parts. It values tangents over accumulation.

Mayo's Mid-Century Modern is a ride, a kind of spiritual journey through shapeshifting and a reverence for serious play. 

“I woke up from a dream this morning. It was sticking to me. Or the dream itself had been sticky. In it, I had entered some kind of situation. The goings-ons here: the people, actions, and sounds looked familiar, and the conditions and shapes of things were eloquent. Everyone involved was on a transcendent journey and experiencing a myriad of puzzle locations. The gravity and the play of it all were palpable in a way that stayed with me in my waking state long enough for me to remember that the experience we were all having was called embodied philosophy (in the dream). The waking state of this is a dance called Mid-Century Modern.” ~ Mayo

Christy's website 
insta: @funschdance

Julie's website

insta: @juliehmayo

Wednesday, Thursday+ Friday: February 26th, 27th+28th
8:00pm

TICKETS

Presented by Cameron Barnett and Fiona Schlegel, Must Come Down is a rowdy historical remix told in two parts. Original folk music written and performed live by Bernadette Bradley accompanies direction and choreography by Cameron Barnett, while eight dancers sweat through moments of collision, kinship, gall, and tenderness. We gather to dance and sing, to commemorate a great tragedy as the next looms on the horizon. When the terrible weight crashes down, we bear the immensity with desperate physicality. Through the struggle, a silent force swings like the tide, like a promise: The further it is pulled in one direction, the heavier it falls in the other. 

Director/Choreographer: Cameron Barnett
Associate Choreographer/Rehearsal Director: Fiona Schlegel
Original music: Bernadette Bradley, with additional lyrics by Cameron Barnett
Costumes: Hannah Qin
Lights: Cameron Barnett

Cast: Cameron Barnett, Hanna Golden, Mack Lawrence, Johnny Mathews III, Anna Rice, Fiona Schlegel Kayla White & Kiara Williams

WEBSITE

Two week run!

February 5th-12th, 2025
first week: four shows, wed through sat
second week: two shows, fri+sat
Wednesdays and Thursdays at 7:30
Fridays and Saturdays at 8:00

TICKETS

Performed by Matthew Bovee, Brendan Drake, Ollie Iturrieta, Nikkie Samreth, Marcus Serjeant, and Nattie Trogdon
Video Installation by Ian Lewandowski
Technical Direction by Darrin Wright
Props and Headpieces by Brendan Drake

A Disco Ball descends from the sky as two F-words with a pension for trauma bonding and poppers welcome you to their cubbyhole of ghoulish apparitions, smut, and divine brutishness. Inspired by horror cinema and cruising culture, Ghost Porn incorporates dance, magical realism, and sound manipulation to complicate notions of sexual curiosity, agency, and casual hedonism. An inverted realm is conjured, where form and meaning give way to a visceral palate of noise, rhythm, and ecstatic dancing that wavers between gogo dancing and an exorcism. Ghost Porn is a love letter to the dark (room); an exploration of desire at its most translucent and opaque. This evening-length work features video design by Ian Lewandowski, and original text, sound score, and choreography by Drake in collaboration with performers Matthew Bovee, Ollie Iturrieta, Nikkie Samreth, Marcus Serjeant, and Nattie Trogdon.

Show contains nudity, sexual content and loud noise, 18 years or older to attend.

Brendan Drake (all pronouns) is an interdisciplinary artist, performer, and currently, the Visiting Assistant Professor of Dance at The Corcoran School of Arts and Design at George Washington University. Their work uses disparate movement forms, erotic imagery, text, and sound manipulation to interrogate issues surrounding gender, vanity, and queer power dynamics. Brendan was a 2017-2018 Fresh Tracks Artist at New York Live Arts and has been awarded grants and residencies through the Brooklyn Arts Fund, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, CUNY Dance Initiative, Brooklyn Studios for Dance, Monira Foundation, The Tank, and Chez Bushwick. Their recent work has been presented at Danspace Project (Draftwork), Movement Research, The Brick, La MaMa, PAGEANT, Joes Pub, The Wild Project, AUNTS, Brooklyn Studios for Dance, JrHigh (Los Angeles, CA), Fowler Museum (Los Angeles, CA) and The Dance Complex (Boston, MA). In addition to their work for the stage, Brendan choreographed the fall 2014 “Equality = Love'' campaign for Adidas Originals/Pharrell Williams. They were the movement coordinator for editorial shoots with Vogue, Porter, V, and Elle Magazines (photographers: Liz Collins, Ryan McGinley, Collier Schorr). From 2022-2023, they were the director of UCLA’s “Sex Squad,” working collaboratively with undergraduates and LA County High School students to devise performances centering on issues of sexual health, consent, identity, and pleasure. In May 2023, they presented their graduate research on tracking queer sociality in contemporary dance and performance at the UCLA National Queer Graduate Conference. They have guest taught at UCLA, Columbia University, the University of Massachusetts, Muhlenberg College, DeSales University, Ball State University, Skewl, Peridance, SCDT, Loculus, and the New York Film Academy. As a dancer and performer, They currently work with Nattie + Hollis, and Kayla Hamilton/Circle O. Brendan holds a BFA in Dance from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and an MFA in Choreographic Inquiry from UCLA.

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10am-noon (doors open 945)
drop-in / sliding scale $0-25

One thing I know I can do right now is continue to deepen my practice of embodiment and make space for folks in my communities to do the same. I’m teaching SOMATICS FOR MOVERS, classes for everyone including dancer performer artist people. I guide our research with love, supporting your experience on the floor and in space, alone and with each other. There will be some focus on developmental movement. I invite you to class. Yes you! Let’s be together in real life, real time, real space. 

email with any questions: rebecca.kelley.brooks@gmail.com

Sign up HERE