WEDNESDAYS | Company Class at Movement Research
We are excited to continue, in partnership with Movement Research, the weekly Trisha Brown Dance Company Class taught by a rotating cast of current and former company members. Core principles of Brown’s work including technique taught via the creative and physical practices of past and current TBDC dancers.
Over the course of these classes, instructors will guide dancers through a movement practice and select repertory excerpts from Trisha Brown’s extensive body of work. Each teacher offers a unique focus and range of personal experience related to their understanding of Trisha’s choreographic sensibility, with the goal of empowering students in their artistic pursuits.
CLASSES RESUME WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2024
📅 Wednesdays, February 14, 2024 through June 26, 2024
🕙 10am-12pm
📍 537 Broadway, NYC
> $18
Instructors:
Feb 14: Jamie Scott
Feb 21, 28, Mar 6: Amanda Kmett’Pendry
Mar 13, 20, 27: Marc Crousillat
Apr 3: No Class
Apr 10, 17, 24: Vicky Shick
May 1, 8, 15: Burr Johnson
May 22, 29: Cecily Campbell
June 5, 12: Christian Allen
June 19: No Class
June 26: Christian Allen
For more information go to movementresearch.org
Please continue to check our website and our social media channels for special projects and updates on classes.
MONDAYS | Shared Practice with Shelley Senter
NO CLASSES CURRENTLY BUT LOOK OUT FOR SPRING 2024
WHEN
Mondays, January 29 - March 18
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
*no class February 19*
LOCATION
New York Center for Creativity & Dance
287 East 10th Street, Studio 5
COST
Sliding Scale $12- 20
Accepting cash, credit card and apple pay.
CLASS DESCRIPTION
The principles of the Alexander Technique and Trisha Brown's choreography both highlight perception, subtlety, subjectivity, inner space in relation to outer space, self in relation to others. Experimental in nature, both are critical practices that cultivate self-reflection, curiosity, specificity, and deep self-knowledge that allows, to quote Trisha, "all of the person's person to arrive at the same moment.”
In this series of classes/labs, Shelley Senter shares her personal practice and experience of applying the principles of the Alexander Technique to Brown's work through repertory excerpts, hands-on work, observation, and dialogue.
"I think we need a variety of skills. The Alexander Technique helps to integrate the individual dancer plus all the systems that he or she has been exposed to. It is important to tell a student that there is a different way of moving free of grit force, interruptions, habitual patterns, of tension. They need to learn to stop that." -Trisha Brown
BIO
Shelley Senter is an independent and collaborative dance artist whose work has been presented worldwide. She danced with the Trisha Brown Dance Company from 1986-1991, and continues to perform as a guest on occasion. Senter has directed reconstructions and adaptations of Brown's choreography for such institutions as the Lyon Opera Ballet, Centre Georges Pompidou, Barbican, P.A.R.T.S., Centre National de Danse Contemporaine, and many universities in the US. Senter is a repetiteur of Yvonne Rainer's Trio A, and has been presented as a "living archive" of the seminal choreography of Brown, Rainer and others in autobiographical performance-lectures at such venues as MoMA, the Tate Modern, Berliner Festival, and the US Embassy in Vienna, where she was honored for her particular approach to transmission and performance at the Impulstanz Festival. Her work is informed by her experience as a teacher of the Alexander Technique, member of LOWER LEFT Improvisation Performance Collective and collaborations with many distinguished artists.
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For any questions, please email c.campbell@trishabrowncompany.org.