two sessions! attend one or both.
September 27th and October 11th.
What does agency, rebellion, and action reveal about your sensibilities?
How do these considerations and points of view infest the considerations of collaboration and choreography? How can you examine your own logic through movement, and performance and then hone it, exact it, and run with it- making something new?
Come join Kestrels for All of You, a monthly creative workshop for freelance dancers facilitated by Molly Poerstel to investigate the unique trajectories, curiosities, and investigations of the self. Set up as a guided improvisation, Poerstel will facilitate the group through a series of improvisations of the body, the voice, and somatic writing as a mode towards a greater understanding of your own artistic stroke.
These improvisations are invitations, not dictates, they act as a guide, not a guru, where the individual dancer’s inner voice ultimately takes precedence over the echo of dictates, scores, and the absolutes that can become an internal scaffolding. By observing our own inner workings, nervous systems, imaginations and placing these unique points of view at the center of our practice, the loudest voice in the room becomes your own.
Come, let’s move together with YOU at the center of it all.
Cost: $35
To sign up email: Mollypoerstel@gmail.com
Venmo: @Molly-Poerstel-1
Molly Poerstel is a dance artist whose career spans over twenty years. A powerful performer, she has gained recognition over the years for her work with Mark Jarecke, David Dorfman Dance Company, Alex Escalante, Susan Rethorst, Larissa Valez-Jackson, Hilary Clark, Ivy Baldwin, Juliana F. May, Roseanne Spradlin, and Jeanine Durning. Poerstel was nominated for a New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Award for Sustained Achievement in Dance Performance in 2019.
Poerstel’s choreographic works have been presented in New York City by New York Live Arts Fresh Tracks (2012), Movement Research Spring Festival (2013), Brooklyn Arts Exchange Upstart Festival (2014), Fridays at Noon 92Y (2014), Danspace Project’s Food for Thought (2014) curated by Ben Kimitch, Gibney Dance Center’s Double Plus, curated by Donna Uchizono (2014), and Making Space (2016). Her current body of work has been a trilogy of even length dances which consider the potency of somatic memory, writing, and interconnection. These works include: I am Also – Monte (2021) was commissioned by Abrons Art Center and features Richmond Virginia native and acclaimed house dancer Monte Jones, and Flesh House (2023) a trio for herself, Monte Jones, and Eleanor Smith which premiered at Kestrels in Brooklyn, Her next work, Galactic Ash (working title) is the third in this series and considers the in-between spaces of our past and future identities through the complicated binds of grief, ancestry, and lineage. Poerstel was a 2015 Movement Research Artist-in-Residence and a 2018 BAX Parent Space Grant Recipient. She has taught at The Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts, The New School, SUNY Purchase Dance Conservatory, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, Dalton School, and the Nanyang School of the Fine Arts in Singapore. Poerstel graduated as a Distinguished Honors Student Fellow at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee where she completed her MFA in 2024.
photo credits: Flesh House, photo by Maria Baranova-Suzuki
Performers: Monte Jones, Eleanor Smith, Molly Poerstel