Join us for our 1st West Coast Summer Intensive in LOS ANGELES, CA!
WHEN:
JUNE 10 – JUNE 14, 2024
10:00AM-3:00PM
WHERE:
G Son Studios, Atwater Village
3218 Glendale Blvd, Los Angeles, California
INSTRUCTORS:
Patrick Needham and Sam Wentz
WHAT:
In this one-week intensive, Instructors Patrick Needham and Sam Wentz will introduce movement principles from Trisha Brown’s repertory, specifically focusing on Lateral Pass (1985). Students will be introduced to source material from the work and, using the choreographic principles Trisha used to create the piece, cycle through their own exploration of the building process. Technique and Repertory classes will consist of somatic and improvisational explorations including partnering, bodywork, drawing, and improvising with phrase work.
SCHEDULE:
Studio open @ 9:30
10:00AM-12:00PM: Technique Class
12-:00PM-1:00PM: Lunch
1:00PM-3:00PM: Repertory
FEE:
Early Bird Rate available through May 13: $315 + $11 PayPal processing fee
Regular Rate: $350 + $13 PayPal processing fee
REGISTER VIA THIS GOOGLE FORM
MEET THE INSTRUCTORS:
Patrick Needham is an LA native living in New York City, where he earned his BFA in Dance and Choreography from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Along with being a current member of the Trisha Brown Dance Company, he has enjoyed collaborating with choreographers such as Maddie Schimmel and Netta Yerushalmy, among others. Needham has performed experimental dance theatre with Company Stefanie Batten Bland and HOLDTIGHT. Teaching highlights include summer dance intensives at the ASWARA School of Dance in Malaysia and WESTSIDE Dance Project in Southern California. Needham's most recent endeavor has been teaching for the Trisha Brown Dance Company's Education programs, all while pursuing his performance career. Currently, he is thrilled to be focusing on a new chapter of creating his own choreography repertoire for future performances and events.
Sam Wentz is a dance and performance artist based in Los Angeles. Originally from North Dakota, he graduated from Idyllwild Arts Academy in 2006, completed his BFA in Dance at NYU Tisch School of the Arts in 2009, and received his MFA in Dance and Choreography as a Teaching Fellow at Bennington College in 2016. He has performed with: Ajani Brannum, the Trisha Brown Dance Company (2009 – 2014), Wally Cardona + Jennifer Lacey, Jay Carlon, Gerald Casel, Dimitri Chamblas, the Merce Cunningham Trust, Katherine Helen Fisher, Levi Gonzalez, Jmy James Kidd, Mark Morris Dance Group, Abigail Levine, Annie B. Parson, Judith Sanchez Ruiz, Kensaku Shinohara, and Susan Sgorbati.
His work has been presented at the Bennington Museum (VT), the Fire House (Joshua Tree) the Geffen Contemporary at MoCA, G-Son Studios, Human Resources, Pieter Performance Space, REDCAT, and The Tank NYC.
He has taught company classes for the Trisha Brown Dance Company, Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker’s ROSAS, the Lyon Opera Ballet, and Katherine Helen Fisher/Safety Third Productions. As a teacher of Trisha Brown’s work, he assisted in the re-staging of “L’Amour au Théâtre” (2009) on the Trisha Brown Company. In the Winter of 2019, he and fellow alumni remounted Trisha Brown’s “Foray Forêt” (1990) and “Newark” (1987) on the Lyon Opera Ballet in Lyon, France.
Since 2013, he has been a returning, guest artist teacher at P.A.R.T.S. Brussels, Belgium. He has been a guest teacher at many colleges and universities including Bates College, University of Arizona - Tucson, University of California-Berkeley, University of California-Santa Barbara, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, University of Washington, and Yale University. He joined the Sharon Disney Lund School of Dance at CalArts faculty in the Fall of 2018 as an adjunct and became Regular Faculty in the Fall 2022.
All participants must be 18 or older, No partial registration at this time.
For questions, please email c.campbell@trishabrowncompany.org.