Jennifer Monson

Dissolving Choreographies: Creating energetic systems that mingle, disturb and cross thresholds of knowing.

In this workshop we tune our bodies to each other through a process of witnessing, exchanging movement patterns and developing proposals for improvised scores. Through the exploration of collective knowing and immersive attentions, we craft scores that research the particular questions that emerge in our individual and collective dancing. We create dance systems that invite opportunities to play within the contexts and possibilities we share together each day. Individual and group performance processes emerge from our work together.

Jennifer Monson’s biography:

Jennifer Monson is a queer, experimental choreographer based between Illinois and NY, USA. She is the founder and artistic director of iLAND-interdisciplinary Laboratory for Art Nature Dance. Her works investigates phenomena such as animal migration, water infrastructure and watersheds, urban ecologies and toxicity. She is a professor at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign. She is dedicated to improvisation and experimental approaches to choreography as a means to articulate the on-goingness of being on earth. She has danced with David Zambrano since 1985 and has on-going collaborations with DD Dorvillier, Serouj Aprahamian, Jennifer Miller, Val Oliveiro, Zeena Parkins and Jeff Kolar.

Dates and times:
July 28 – August 1
Monday to Friday
9:00 – 13:00

Price:
50 € registration fee
240 € total

Package deal:
In the same week Serouj “Midus” Aprahamian is teaching Hip hop improvisation in the afternoons. You get a 15% discount for registering to both workshops.