Trajal Harrell
FUTURESHOCK, From Wall to Floor, Flip it, and Reverse it

FUTURESHOCK, From Wall to Floor, Flip it, and Reverse It This workshop takes its impetus from the relationship between choreography and visual art performance and a Missy Elliot song, "Work it." Missy goes, "Is it worth it, let me work it. I put my thing down, flip it, and reverse it." Not since the 1960's have we seen such an overlap between the art world and the dance world, as we see happening today. With "performance" being the new catch-all phrase, boundaries are dissolving both in the way artists are creating their work and the way institutions are assigning resources. In this workshop, we will introduce ourselves to past and current choreographic practices in the visual art world as well as a look at how visual art ideas are informing contemporary choreography, dance, and performance. Then, we will use this departure to make things we are not sure we can describe yet. We are not afraid to dance, sleep, sing, draw, rearrange, pontificate, hallucinate, conceptualise, destroy, and/or invent. Maybe we are afraid a little, but even so, we will work it!