Teaching at BRAZIL

Tuesday March 9
6 - 8PM

$10/per class
cash only

Class Description:

Expansive Awareness/Precise Approach
Level: Open to all

What does it mean to facilitate our energy? In this class we will create an environment that grounds us in a community of open rigor. We will explore fundamental movement ideas to facilitate an expansive awareness and precise approach to technical patterning allowing room for personal quirkiness. Phrase material including inversions and multi-directional initiation will allow us to find sequential awareness and move in and out of the floor with ease. We will find imaginative architecture in our own bodies while simultaneously relating to others.

Bio:

Adrienne Westwood is a Brooklyn-based dance artist and co-founder of VIA Dance Collaborative, the formation of which she realized when awarded the Kenan Fellowship at Lincoln Center Institute in 2003. Most recently they performed her evening-length Lullaby in Surrealism at Jacob’s Pillow. Her choreography has also been presented at Joyce SoHo, Dance New Amsterdam, Dixon Place, the Ailey Citigroup Theater, the McCallum Theater in California and the East Street Theater in Massachusetts. In addition to dancing with fellow VIA choreographers Adrienne enjoys performing with Helen Simoneau. She has been visiting Assistant Professor of Dance at SUNY Fredonia, an artist in residence at North Carolina School of the Arts, Performática (Puebla, Mexico) and Island Moving Company (Rhode Island), and is a teaching artist for Lincoln Center Institute. This year Adrienne is thrilled to be perusing her MFA in dance through Hollins University/The American Dance Festival. She is a 2009 Access Dance/USA Scholarship recipient. BFA North Carolina School of the Arts.