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Dancing & Improvising
Workshop with
Esther Baker
Saturday, July 15
10:45 am-12:15 pm
Class description:
Dancing and Improvising- Connecting Internal Ecology and Community.
We begin with a gentle energy warm-up, moving into activating and stretching the muscles and breathing into the bones. Then we will practice tuning deep listening through gazing, partnering, and improvisation. With music, we will build into a rhythmic flow and dancing with architecture and space. How do you honor your feelings, move to your own flow, and co-exist reciprocally within this space with other humans and spatial ecologies? How does the memory of place, imagination, and ancestry shape the choices in dance-making?
Esther Baker (MA&MFA, UCLA) is a choreographer, performance artist, and co-founder of Propelled Animals and Baker & Tarpaga Dance Project. She recently performed at La Ville En Mouvement in Dakar, Senegal, Trade School Philadelphia, The Chicago Architecture Biennale, ArtYard New Jersey, No New Idols Festival in Riga, Lativa, The Englert Theatre Iowa City, and BAAD Bronx. She was an AIR at Marin Headlands, a MAP Fund awardee, FCA Grantee, Grant Wood Fellow, and Cultural Envoy in Guinea, Botswana, and South Africa. She is a massage therapist and teaches part-time at Temple University. www.propellledanimals.org. Photo by Daniel Swern.
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