Workshop w. Keith Hennessy

Playfully channeling the octopus’ multi-limb/brain/heart and the political witchcraft of a liberated embodied imagination, Keith will introduce the figure it out playground to dancers, embodied researchers, and the playfully curious for careful rigorous play. Working multi dimensionally in a 3D physical environment with the 4th and 5th dimensions of imaginal and energetic realms. All levels of dance, improv, circus, play, human experience welcome.

Presented as part of Circo Zero's figure it out (a temporary commune)

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Keith Hennessy is a frolicker, imperfectionist, and witch working in the fields of dance, performance, affordable housing, waterdancing, resistance to tyranny, and gay sexuality. Raised on Atikameksheng Anishnawbek lands in Canada, and living on Ramaytush Ohlone lands (San Francisco) since 1982, Keith tours internationally. His work is interdisciplinary and experimental, motivated by anti-racist, queer-feminist, and anarchist movements. He engages in practices of improvisation, ritual, collaboration, and play to respond to political crises. With a focus on the politics of relationships, Keith has negotiated shared power and creativity with Ishmael Houston-Jones, Sarah Crowell, Meg Stuart, Brontez Purnell, Snowflake Calvert, jose e. abad, Gerald Casel, Faustin Linyekula, Jassem Hindi, Peaches, and many others. Keith directs Circo Zero, co-founded the dance/culture spaces 848 and CounterPulse, and was a member of Sara Mann’s Contraband.

ABOUT figure it out

figure it out (a temporary commune) is a community performing artist residency.

figure it out (a temporary commune) is two-months of 24/7 access to a one of a kind warehouse/gallery/studio made freely available to a diverse community of experimental artists who need space to improvise, experiment, fail, and thrive.

figure it out (a temporary commune) is experimental performance research generating dance workshops and aerial labs, public conversations, queered holiday gatherings, and performances.

figure it out (a temporary commune) is togetherness-in-difference, collaborating in an intergenerational, multiracial, cross-class, inter-disciplinary, and equitable creative process.

figure it out (a temporary commune) includes culminating experimental performances guided by Keith Hennessy, created in collaboration during the residency.

Read more: www.circozero.org/figure

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- Big appeciation to our venue SPACE 124, a project space in Project Artaud
- Thank you to So Bad It's Good Productions for the subwoofers
- figure it out (a temporary commune) is funded by The Kenneth Rainin Foundation, The San Francisco Arts Commission, and The Zellerbach Family Foundation