WORKSHOP
MADE BY WOMEN
SPRING WORKSHOP
Saturday, March 22
10am - 5pm
Location : Joyce Studios - Studio 5
As part of the MADE BY WOMEN Festival, Dual Rivet is excited to add a 7-hour, high intensity workshop comprised of the key technical and theatrical elements the company works with. This year’s Faculty includes Dual Rivet, Kimie Parker of Sidra Bell Dance New York, and Isadora Wolfe of Punchdrunk! The workshop will dive deep into theatrical exploration, floorwork technique, states of tension, improvisation and partnering repertoire. This workshop is designed to push our understanding of our physicality as movers, explore our technique through physical communication, and delve into exciting character development. We are so excited to share our highly physical, contemporary movement with the community.
MEET THE FACULTY
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KIMIE PARKER - Sidra Bell Dance New York
KIMIE PARKER is a dance artist and educator based in Brooklyn, New York, originally from San Diego, California. Since earning her BFA from Point Park University in 2019, she has been a company artist with Sidra Bell Dance New York and was subsequently appointed Rehearsal Director in 2022. She has taught on behalf of the company and assisted Bell at numerous institutions including The Juilliard School, Harvard University, NYU Tisch, the University of the Arts, SUNY Purchase, Marymount Manhattan College, University of Michigan, and more.
SIDRA BELL DANCE NEW YORK is an internationally recognized boutique brand of prolific movement illustrators based in New York City that presents and fosters a canon of innovative and progressive dance theater programming in realms of ideas, environs and (im)possibilities. www.sidrabelldanceny.org
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DUAL RIVET - Jessica Smith & Chelsea Ainsworth
DUAL RIVET is a women-led dance company focused on creating and sharing highly physical contemporary dance to a wide audience. Based in NYC, Dual Rivet creates work for stage and film that exchanges a cinematic and visceral language to influence both platforms. Directors Jessica Smith and Chelsea Ainsworth have been making and presenting work since 2017. They have performed, taught, and set work at Festival PRISMA (Panama), b12 (Berlin), Centro Cultural Los Talleres (Mexico), Barnard College/Columbia University, Sam Houston State University, Oklahoma International Dance Festival, Austin Dance Festival, Joe's Pub, West End Theatre, Kittery Maine, Musikfest Pennsylvania, Gibney Dance, Peridance Capezio Center, CreateArt, Arts On Site and many more.
The company teaches a myriad of classes, throughout the United States and internationally, with an emphasis on contemporary partnering and floorwork. Dual Rivet is currently on faculty at The Juilliard School, Gibney, Peridance, SUNY Purchase, Marymount Manhattan College, and Adelphi University. The company hosts an annual choreography festival, MADE BY WOMEN, highlighting women choreographers and filmmakers from around the globe. For more info:
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ISADORA WOLFE - Punchdrunk
ISADORA WOLFE is a dance-theater artist located in New York City and the Berkshires. She is currently an Artistic Associate of Punchdrunk, following her tenures as Resident Director and Associate Artistic Director at Sleep No More. Isadora has collaborated with makers such as Johannes Wieland (Kassel, Germany and original member of Wieland's NYC company), Martha Clarke (Garden of Earthly Delights, Angel Reapers), Punchdrunk (Sleep No More), Richard Jones (The Hairy Ape), David Auburn, Maxine Doyle and Gerald Casel. She has taught for companies and institutions including Alvin Ailey II, Ballet Hispanico, Jacob's Pillow, Marymount Manhattan, NYU's Tisch School, Rutger's University and Springboard Dance Festival; and is on faculty at The Juilliard School where she continues to develop her Acting for Dancers course.
WHAT TO EXPECT
CONTEMPORARY SYSTEMS
with Kimie Parker
CONTEMPORARY SYSTEMS - an interior & material approach to movement by Sidra Bell Dance New York encourages provocative thought and an immersive approach to the subject matter of the body. Her work demands a high degree of physicality and input from the dancers, encouraging them to execute movement with intention, curiosity, care, rigor, and empathy.
PARTNERING + FLOORWORK
with Dual Rivet
Dual Rivet’s class encompasses a wide range of contemporary floorwork and partnering skills. We will explore intense physicality through strength building techniques, attention to placement and weight, and a curiosity to move. The classes will include basic floorwork and partnering concepts, contact improvisation, and repertoire that is inspired heavily by capoeira, acrobatics, and release technique. The class emphasizes our maximum physical capacity as movers as we will focus on softening and delving into safe practices. The result will be momentous, seamless and sustainable movement, allowing for personal exploration of style and musicality.
STATES + STORY
with Isadora Wolfe
Using her two decades of performance and creation with dance theater artists such as Johannes Wieland, Punchdrunk and Martha Clarke, Isadora has honed her workshops and classes to develop performance skills of professional and pre-professional artists. Through a designed progression, the artist learns how to release inhibition and gain nuanced control of their energetic and storytelling abilities. Performers will gain comfort and freedom in their play inside both contemporary dance and theater-driven work.