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.
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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