"sharply focused, levered in the place between play and tension... superb dancer... complex architecture... non-stop interesting.... extremely creative"
Tom Patrick, Dance Insider
"a powerful, courageous performance" Elanine Schmidt, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
"Most Original" Ann Marie Welsh, The San Diego Union
Excerpt from Ploy (to be titled, ideas-in-progress)
@ Movement Research at the Judson Church.
BluePrint at the Experimental Theater of Jalisco
Guadalajara, Mexico on October 21
The nEW festival is a “dance-driven and artist fueled” program that supports choreographic research and
development by providing choreographers and dancers with daily class, rehearsal space, studio showings
and performances in an atmosphere that encourages collaboration, process, risk-taking, peer response,
and community investment at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia.
LABORAME
- Teaching in Mexico City and Guadalajara, April 2008
CURSO: Componer/Descomponer imágenes físicas y perspectivas en el proceso coreográfico
La meta de esta clase es dar herramientas que sirvan a los alumnos para aprender y analizar como
llegar a crear una coreografía. Partiendo de una idea sencilla y frases de movimiento, la coreografía
se vuelve compleja a medida que pasa por diferentes procesos, como son: manipulación, descomposición,
fragmentación, mezcla, repetición, cambios de ritmo, calidades de movimiento, visualización de la
escena y uso de voz.
La clase empieza con varios ejercicios de grupo. Posteriormente, cada participante tiene tiempo para
trabajar individualmente en sus propias coreografías con tareas que apoyen sus conceptos.
Cada participante mostrará su trabajo con el fin de recibir comentarios y retroalimentación de la clase.
[DADA: Artistic and literary movement (1916-1923) that flouted conventional aesthetic and cultural values by producing works
marked by nonsense, travesty, and incongruity.]
With the seed of inspiration of Dada movement, Da·Da·Dance Project was founded in 2007 by Eun Jung
Choi-Gonzalez (Artistic Director) and Guillermo Ortega Tanus (Choreographer) in New York City. We explore unconventional ways
to approach physical movement with its dramatic theatricality as a reaction to the "sterile and stagnating" dance that oftentimes
becomes inaccessible to the general public. We not only create pure physicality in our aesthetics, but We also often
devote all things absurd and bizarre, which seemly relate to our contemporary society where all arts forms are merging, mixing,
degenerating, and losing their definitions and identities.
Drawing from a wealth of experiences in theater, music, poetry, multi-media, visual/commercial art, various dance styles from
"traditional" to "cutting-edge" to "street dance" to "improvisation", we continuously seek to find a language that speaks,
communicates and delivers uniquely expressive vocabulary, to reveal our eccentricity. Our themes frequently include aspects
of one's personality, social and emotional behavior and intelligence, with the curious mixture of comic and the tragic inherent. http://www.dadadanceproject.org
The nEW festival is a “dance-driven and artist fueled” program that supports choreographic research and
development by providing choreographers and dancers with daily class, rehearsal space, studio showings
and performances in an atmosphere that encourages collaboration, process, risk-taking, peer response,
and community investment at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia.
CURSO: Componer/Descomponer