Creativ Process - Shit Happens

Thinking, observing, moving, and talking will be the activities of this workshop. Rather than offering a compositional methodology for dancemaking, we explore the possibility that nothing has to be done in order for something to be happening. We will practice using what is there, you, others, the space, its objects, our physicalities, intelligences, and intensities. Our collective work will orbit around the question of how ideas/actions/perceptions grow and relate in an unpredictable process of construction. If you have material you are working on, you can bring it and see what happens to it in the group context.


Skinner Releasing Technique (SRT)

...lets the student practice letting go of habitual holding patterns and habitual ways of thinking in order to find energy and power and awaken creativity and spontaneity. Class includes Guided Imagery that taps into imagination while working on technical aspects of moving, in groups and solo, as well as studies and exercises with partners. Movement unfolds, sometimes in quiet, gentle ways, sometimes in surprising and inventive ways. Integration of the technical with the creative is a unique aspect of the Skinner approach. Please come prepared with a notebook to write daily.


DD Dorvillier
DD Dorvillier is a dancer, choreographer, and teacher. Since 1989 she has created and produced her works in New York City, and more recently on the international circuit. Recent projects: "CPAU", Get Ready!" with Zeena Parkins (2009), "Pièce Sans Paroles" (2010) with Anne Juren and Annie Dorsen, "The Blanket Dance" (2011) with Frédéric Gies and Jefta van Dinther, and "RMW(A) & RMW" with long-time collaborator, dancer/choreographer Jennifer Monson. She recently presented a reprise of her acclaimed "No Change or “freedom is a psycho-kinetic skill”" (2005), and performed in "Parades & Changes, replays" a re-enactment of Anna Halprin’s 1965 work by Anne Collod. Dorvillier has maintained on-going adventures with dancer/choreographers Jennifer Monson, Elizabeth Ward, and Heather Kravas, composer Zeena Parkins, and lighting designer Thomas Dunn. She has worked with: Sarah Michelson, Jennifer Lacey, and Yvonne Meier among many other inspiring artists. She has been a NYFA Choreography Fellow, a Movement Research Artist in Residence, received a New York Dance and Performance Award (Bessie) for "Dressed for Floating" (2002) and as a perfromer in "Parades & Changes, replays" (2010), the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Fellowship (2007), and a Guggenheim Fellowship (2011). In 2008, along with Trajal Harrell, she was artistic mentor of the DanceWeb Europe scholarship programme, hosted by Vienna's ImPulsTanz.