Digging Deep: From the Outside to the Core with Rhonda Moore

Digging Deep: From the Outside to the Core with Rhonda Moore

In this workshop guided by illustrious dancer and educator, Rhonda Moore, you'll dig into Laban Movement Analysis to deepen and enrich the quality of your movement, dance, or acrobatic performance on stage. Once you gain an understanding of the Laban Efforts and how to embody them, you'll be empowered to create visceral, dynamic journeys for your audience that remain cohesive, even within abstraction and chaos.
All ticket holders will recieve a recording of the class! So you are welcome to register even if you can not attend during the live session.

Prepare/Bring
As this workshop will be digging deeper into the embodiment and use of Laban Efforts in your movement practice, we request that you generally familiarize yourself with the technique, if you are able, by completing the following exercises prior to class in order to get the most out of this offering. You are still welcome to join us even if you are not able to complete this "homework" prior to the workshop!

1) Review materials to gain an understanding of the Laban Efforts:

• What is Laban Movement Analysis anyway? Video Link
• Rae Presents: The Laban Efforts Video Link
• The Eight Efforts: Laban Movement Article Link
• Laban Movement Efforts Explained and Workshopped Video Link
• Bonus materials to dig deeper: Movement Direction video, Laban Movement example video, About Rudolf von Laban video, Laban dance from 1946 video

2) Record and upload to this folder a short video clip (max 3 minutes) of yourself working through the Laban Efforts in three (3) ways:

• Using your voice, saying the phrase "Take Power, Make Power"
• Movement/physical image
• Voice and movement combined

3) Record and upload to this folder a short video clip (max 2 minutes) where you identify the 1, 2, or 3 (max) Laban Effort Qualities that you feel most exemplify how you personally and consistently “show up” in the world. In short, are you sending out major thrust and wring, as opposed to float and tap? Explain the triggers that cause you to oscillate between the 2 or 3 Laban Effort Qualities that consistently show up in your quotidien and performance universes. You are asked to share pertinent details/revelations.

We will share all results communally during our first session together and build community moving forward!

About the Artist: Rhonda Moore (she/her) is a dancer, choreographer, performance artist, and educator. A former member of the very first Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company (1983), Moore has collaborated behind-the-scenes, on the screen and onstage with international artists in music, dance, and theater, such as Michael Jackson (The Wiz), David Gordon/Valda Setterfield, Douglas Dunn, Sylvain Émard, Boris Charmatz, Mariana Arteaga, Shayla Vie-Jenkins, Nia Benjamin, Ang Bey, Yael Bartana, Nichole Canuso, Doug Varone, Max Roach, Connie Crothers, Cheryl Porter, Maurizio Zanolli, Luigi Bonafede, Carlo Ceriani, and many others. Her pedagogy as a Dancing Classrooms Philly senior teaching artist and as adjunct faculty in Temple University’s Department of Dance connect Rhonda with Philadelphia’s richly diverse, intergenerational populations. Her collaborative creative work with locally-based artists Megan Bridge (Grounds That Shout), Nichole Canuso (The Garden/Being:With/Lunar Retreat), Jillian Harris (PAFA), Laura Katz Rizzo (Grounds for Sculpture), and Ben Grinberg (Almanac Dance Circus Theater) stand as further testimony of the power and impact of dance in creating and building community. @rhondadances

This workshop is presented by BACCES (the BIPOC Acro Collective Care Ecosystem) as a part of the Take Power, Make Power Residency Program.
Take Power, Make Power is an interdisciplinary residency program that empowers BIPOC acrobats with tools to develop and amplify their artistic voices, while building and sustaining skills for their semi-professional, professional, or/and personally fulfilling creative acrobatic practice. This class is a part of our workshop series that is open to the public; this class welcomes circus artists of all races, experiences, and backgrounds to participate and expand their creative skillsets.
Learn more about Take Power, Make Power here: takepowermakepower.org
Learn more about BACCES here: bacces.org and follow @BIPOCacro on Instagram.

(Payment will be processed through our fiscal sponsor, Independent Arts&Media)