World Building
Week 1: July 18 – 22
In this workshop, we’ll be investigating techniques for collaborative making and co-authorship of choreographies. Drawing primarily from the Viewpoints Technique, Moment Work, Action Theatre, and Lecoq-based devising methods, we will investigate the theatrical depths available to us in our dancemaking. Through investigations of architecture, light, prop, costume, and text, we will weave/quilt/layer these elements of the stage to craft theatrical narrative that supports the dance. We will work to build frameworks to contain set phrase material, the creation of spontaneous choreographies, and the dialogue between the two modes of creation and performance. Let’s allow poetries and emergent vocabularies to lead us into our daily worldbuilding. Please bring prop/light/costume/text materials to Bates for our in-studio “kit” for creation!
There will be an informal showing at the end of the week.
