Wednesday
3:00-5:00pm - Open Contact Improv Class for All
with guest artist Jack Blackmon
We’ll start with our roots, our support systems: in the ground below us; the other bodies around us; and the strength and softness within ourselves. We’ll build from the ground up, both right-side up and upside down. With this trust, we’ll begin to explore and mobilize, borrowing elements of Bartenieff fundamentals and basic breakdance skills to inform our relationship with our first partner, the floor. From this rooted place, we have the ability to explore what it means to mobilize with and through one another. We'll slow down and lean into each other. We'll use this lean to challenge both our individual and connected sense of equilibrium; learning what it means to lean alone and lean together.
with guest artist Jack Blackmon
We’ll start with our roots, our support systems: in the ground below us; the other bodies around us; and the strength and softness within ourselves. We’ll build from the ground up, both right-side up and upside down. With this trust, we’ll begin to explore and mobilize, borrowing elements of Bartenieff fundamentals and basic breakdance skills to inform our relationship with our first partner, the floor. From this rooted place, we have the ability to explore what it means to mobilize with and through one another. We'll slow down and lean into each other. We'll use this lean to challenge both our individual and connected sense of equilibrium; learning what it means to lean alone and lean together.
6:30-8:00
Community Jam |
Jack Blackmon's biography
Born and raised in Lake Tahoe, CA, Jack Blackmon is a performer, teacher, choreographer, & videographer. His yearning to learn from movement eventually led him to NYU where he performed works by Crystal Pite, Trisha Brown, Bobbi Jene Smith, and Loni Landon. He currently dances for Paul Singh/Singh & Dance, Schoen Movement Company, Nicole Wolcott, and Seán Curran Company. He is a current cast member of Punchdrunk NYC's "Sleep No More". Jack is a champion of the contact improv community in New York City. He has assisted and taught at The Juilliard School, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Gibney Dance Center, DeSales University, and Muhlenberg College. |