EDUCATION/ NYC Winter Intensive 2025

OUR 2025 WINTER INTENSIVE IS OFFICIALLY SOLD OUT! Stay tuned on our website for addition opportunities to be in the studio with us in 2025. 

Intensives offer students a steady and deep learning of Brown’s body of work through both current and former company dancers. Classes focus on technique, repertory, and specifically engaging with Brown’s rich archive of multidisciplinary work to uncover new creative outlets and help students accomplish individual creative goals. Each Intensive offers students tools to deepen their knowledge of technical principles, compositional structure, forms, improvisation and performance. This is achieved through classes, video showings, written materials and end-of-week showings. 

WHEN
JANUARY 6-10, 2025
10AM-4PM

WHERE:
Eden's Expressway
537 Broadway, NYC

WHAT:
Dive into Trisha Brown's seminal 1983 work Set and Reset.

INSTRUCTORS:  
Iréne Hultman & Shelley Senter

SCHEDULE:
10:00AM-12:00PM: Technique Class
12:00PM-1:00PM: Lunch
1:00PM-4:00PM: Repertory

REGISTRATION
Register via this google form
To complete registration, please use the paypal link to the left of this page.
If you would like to pay by check, please contact c.campbell@trishabrowncompany.org.

Registration not confirmed until payment is made and form is complete. We look forward to dancing with you!

FEES:
$350 for Single Week Registration + $10.50 PayPal Fee
***$315 for Early Bird Registration Discount + $9 PayPal Fee, Available through December 14****

***$200 Student Rates available + $6 PayPal Fee; 5 Student rates Available through December 15. First come, first serve and waitlist open for available spots after registration closes***

Please email Cecily Campbell at c.campbell@trishabrowncompany.org for any questions. 

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION: 

“Collaboration is cocultivation. It’s the merging of two dreams into one. It’s life and death in the aesthetic zone. One entity makes an incursion into the possibilities/plans of the other — the choreographic into the visual, let’s say, and/or vice versa”. — Trisha Brown, 1999

Irene Hultman and Shelley Senter overlapped dancing in TBDC from 1986-1988, and are excited to be dancing together again as they cocultivate and collaborate on this winter intensive.  They are interested sharing a physical conversation, a collaborative teaching/learning experience that wishes to go deep - into Set and Reset (1983), into their own histories of it, and into a dimensional transmission of Brown’s work that honors the different bodies/beings that have manifested it. 

Morning and afternoon classes will integrate shared and unique practices that prepare and invite us to explore and understand the work physically, intellectually and intuitively, while learning and improvising with phrase material from Set and Reset.  

We’ll engage in composing a new version, based on five rules or principles of the piece and work with “memorized improvisation”, a concept of remembering complex improvisational moves as a way to “reset” material while capturing its initial spontaneity.

There will be space for reflection, inquiry and discussion before, during and after dancing.

MEET THE INSTRUCTORS:  
Iréne Hultman 
is a native of Sweden and a New York based choreographer, dancer, and educator in dance and performance. Her current research interest is how media, affect and speculative theories influences movement and art production.  Hultman was a member of the Trisha Brown Dance Company from 1983 to1988, and served as their rehearsal director from 2006 to 2009.  During the latter time she installed Trisha Browns Early Work at Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Centre George Pompidou, Les Toullieries in Paris to name a few.  From 1988 to 2001, Hultman was the Artistic Director of Iréne Hultman Dance that toured nationally and internationally with: Red-Cap (1992); Blues Yellow Shadow (1993); Tango-Babe (1995); Cascade (1996); Fire and Ice (1997); Nordic Love (1998); Firebird(1998): Love, Betrayal and a Bowling Trophy (2000).  She has choreographed several opera productions including Mozart’s Don Giovanni and The Magic Flute for Drottningholm’s Palace Theater in Stockholm and new operas like Sport och Fritid at The Royal Swedish Opera.  Hultman is co-founder of Firework and Järna-Brooklyn, Swedish-American cultural entities that encourages interdisciplinary artistic experimentation and exchange. Ms. Hultman has taught internationally at universities and institutions including University of the Arts, Yale University, The New School, Ohio State University, Sarah Lawrence College, École National Superieure des Beaux-Art de Paris, Umeå Academy of Fine Arts and The Victoria College of Art in Melbourne.  Her more recent participation as performer engaged with dance artists like Yanira Castro, Emily Coates, Moriah Evans, Yvonne Rainer and Xavier Le Roy.  She is a recipient of grants and awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts Award. She is currently involved in the global discourse of dance and performance and continues to foster her interests in research and collaborations between artistic fields and across continents.  Ms. Hultman is a former member of The Bessie Committee  and currently on the Artist Advisory Board at Danspace Project and serves as faculty in Theater and Performance Studies at Yale University.
 

Shelley Senter is an independent and collaborative dance artist whose work has been presented throughout North and South America, Europe, Asia, Russia and Australia. She danced with the Trisha  Brown Dance Company from 1986-1991, and continues as a guest artist. Senter has directed reconstructions and adaptations of Set and Reset, Glacial Decoy, Opal Loop,Newark, Astral Convertible, Planes, Floor of the Forest, Walking on the Wall and all of the Early Works for the Academia Nazionale di Danza Roma, La Manufacture, the Stephen Petronio Company, Ballet Rambert, Lyon Opera Ballet, Centre George Pompidou, Barbican, P.A.R.T.S., CNDC and many universities and conservatories in the US and abroad.  She has collaborated with many distinguished artists, including Bebe Miller, Deborah Hay, Susan Rethorst, Maria Hassabi, and LOWER LEFT Performance Collective, among many others.  A repetiteur of Yvonne Rainer's Trio A, Senter has been presented as a "living archive" of the seminal choreography of Rainer, Brown and others in autobiographical performance-lectures at such venues as MoMA, the Tate Modern, Berliner Festival and the US Embassy in Austria, where she was honored for her distinct approach to movement, performance and pedagogy at the Impulstanz Festival in Vienna.  A teacher of the Alexander Technique, her work is informed by her experience investigating the principles of this technique to the performing body and mind.  She maintains a private practice in New York City, internationally and on zoom.

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