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Improvisation
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Class description
The class will be a guided improvisation. Beginning with a warm-up, the first improv exercise will focus on tuning into and expanding on the body’s impulses and affinities. We will then move into exploring question based exercises that ask the mover to think about the relationship of body part to body part, brain to body, and dancer to dancer. Throughout the class, we will expand from focusing internally and primarily on the self, to partner, and eventually group improvisation. The class will culminate to a loosely framed movement score based on all the exercises explored during class.
The class will be a guided improvisation. Beginning with a warm-up, the first improv exercise will focus on tuning into and expanding on the body’s impulses and affinities. We will then move into exploring question based exercises that ask the mover to think about the relationship of body part to body part, brain to body, and dancer to dancer. Throughout the class, we will expand from focusing internally and primarily on the self, to partner, and eventually group improvisation. The class will culminate to a loosely framed movement score based on all the exercises explored during class.
About Zoe |
Zoe Walders is a dancer, choreographer, and dance videographer. She holds a BA in Dance from SUNY Potsdam. Originally from Rochester, NY, Zoe moved to New York City to pursue her dance career. She has studied ballet, pointe, modern, contemporary, tap, musical theater, and jazz. After falling in love with improvisation and movement theory in college, Zoe loves to use a combination of impulse and analysis to choreograph. In 2016, her work was presented at the New England Regional American College Dance Festival at Springfield College in Massachusetts, and has an upcoming showing at Mark Morris Dance Center in December 2017.
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about this series |
Dance To The People, Mare Nostrum Elements’ Emerging Choreographers Series and Spaceworks NYC, share a desire to build a strong and nurturing environment where artists can feel safe and inspired to share work, ideals and feedback at very affordable rates.
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