DanceAction Summer Workshop & Performance

Carmen Caceres is a dance artist, originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina.She has been creating and presenting dance works in NY since 2011. Her works have been presented at Dixon Place, Eden’s Expressway, Green Space Studio, Battery Dance Company Studios, Triskelion Arts Center, and Center for Performance Research. In 2012 she founded DanceAction, a dance company that works as a creative platform to produce dance works in collaboration with musicians, designers, media and visual artists.DanceAction participated in numerous festivals and performance series in New York and abroad, such as Performance Studio Open House (PSOH) at Center for Performance Research, Take Root at Green Space Studio, and Under Exposed at Dixon Place.The company has recently presented an entire evening of works inspired by political activism and social justice at Center for Performance Research, Brooklyn, NY.DanceAction’s “Game Night” was part of the First International Contemporary Dance Festival of Mexico City (FIDCDMX) in August 2016. In July 2018 the company performed its most recent piece, "2 Minutes Hate" at Ticino in Danza, Festival and Campus in Ticino, Switzerland.

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Dance Training | Improvisation | Dance Making
This intensive workshop for dancers, musicians, actors, performance artists, or movers of any kind will explore three components of a comprehensive dance experience: training, improvisation, and dance making.
Workshop: June 24 to June 28, 2019 from 1 to 4pm
Rehearsal & Performance: June 27 & June 28, from 4 to 7pm
Mark Morris Dance Center | Howard Hodgkin Studio | Robert W. Cole Studio
3 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
 
Tuition:
Early Bird Registration EXTENDED!!!  $175 through June 21
$200 June 22 to June 24 | Single Session $50
 
Teaching Artist: Carmen Caceres
Assistants: Thomas Gunderson Bond, Laura Orfanelli, Aviya Hernstadt, and Nicole Rae Jones
Guest Teachers: Mary Madsen & Sarah Chien
 
The Workshop
June 24 to 28, 2019 from 1 to 4pm
The dance training and technique segment will be focused on developing physical skills. Strength, flexibility, endurance, coordination, and movement mechanics will be addressed through a series of exercises combining the study of shape as well as pathways of energy taking the body through space. This practice will allow participants to access a unique combination of movement languages and styles that will broaden their physical ability as well as their versatility as movement artists.
An improvisation segment will follow, inviting the participants to immerse in a playful experience. This will include theater and movement games, movement explorations, structured dance improvisations, score building exercises, partnering approaches, and open dance. By navigating these activities progressively, participants will gain awareness towards the people they are moving with; they will experience clarity and ease in decision-making scenarios, and will develop a sense of alertness and strong presence in spontaneous situations. They will also integrate the concept of “Yes and!” within the group practice of dance improvisation and enhance their listening skills in dance.
Lastly, a portion of the class will be focused on dance making exercises used primarily in the development of the choreography for DanceAction works. Participants will have the opportunity to discover these composition tools and their practicality by learning excerpts from the DA repertory. These choreographic tools, as well as the improvisation strategies, will be applied in the making of a dance that participants will perform at the culmination of the workshop on June 28.
The Rehearsal & Performance
Rehearsal: June 27 from 4 to 7pm | Performance: June 28 from 4 to 7pm 
The Workshop will end with a performance at the Mark Morris Dance Center, presenting dance works developed by the participants. The event will also feature excerpts of DanceAction’s repertory, including its new project BLINDSPOT. On Thursday June 27, a general rehearsal will be conducted for DanceAction company members and workshop participants performing at the event. All workshop participants attending the entire week of classes will be able to perform in the culminating Studio Showing at the Mark Morris Dance Center, Robert W. Cole Studio on June 28, 2019 from 5:30 to 6:30 pm.

Mark Morris Dance Center

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