WILD/WISE

Investigating intersections of technical modalities and improvisational forms with a focus on the act of motion from inside out, outside in and in between. Exploring the freedom and wild opportunity of improvisation and the discipline and wisdom of technical practice, as well as of improvisational practice and the wild opportunity and freedom of deeply understanding your unique physical and expressive potential. Testing the body, mind and premises in regards to training, integration and virtuosity. Dance and Discourse.


G.U.T. Techniques

In this workshop we engage in the general unified theory of the act of motion from internal impulse to external expression motivated from the gut, requiring guts and translating to 'good' and 'possession'. The practice organises a hybrid of forms to encourage deep awareness, understanding and impetus of the moving and performing body. The work is a progression of energy cultivation, hands-on instigation, somatic improvisation, technical and mechanical experiments, methods of falling, flying and inversion and 3-dimensional phrase-work. The class is an intimate and animated training ground and arena for exploration - cultivating sensate virtuosity, interactive intelligence, creative instinct and kinetic efficiency, range and stamina.


Kathleen Hermesdorf
Kathleen Hermesdorf is a dance maker, performer, improviser, teacher & organiser based in San Francisco since 1991. She has been a member of Bebe Miller Company (2006 BESSIE), Margaret Jenkins Dance Company (1999 IZZIE) & Contraband/Sara Shelton Mann, co-directed Hermesdorf & Wells Dance Company with Scott Wells (1994 GOLDIE) and has collaborated extensively with Stephanie Maher. She has many awards, reviews, interesting artistic associates and a BFA and MFA in Dance Performance & Pedagogy. With musician Albert Mathias, she directs la ALTERNATIVA, an apparatus for deeply integrated motive & sonic stimulus via collaboration, creation, improvisation & exchange. The work manifests in performance, production, commission & programming, and the company is in residence at KUNST-STOFF arts and in association with ODC School & Theater. Alternative Conservatory is a modular, mobile, intensive & immersive international training ground in dance & related forms.
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