Movement Research

😎 SUMMER MELT WEEK 2: JULY 13-17! | Register for, ‘Remember the Time’ with Ogemdi Ude

PLAN YOUR NYC SUMMER! Learn more and register on our website: https://movementresearch.org/workshops/3016/

Week 2: Jul 13-17
1-3pm | Remember the Time | MR Studios at 150 First Avenue

About this workshop:
This workshop is focused on memory, nostalgia, and straddling time. We will uncover dances from our pasts as opportunities for transformed dancing in our present. What choreographies and genres live within you that are dying to come out? By engaging our past selves we will explore individual and group dance making – learning and creating compositional methods and movement and language based improvised scores. This workshop is for those searching for ways to reinvent their present performing body. I will ask you to regard the paths you have already taken, but have perhaps forgotten. The way you danced at a party in high school, at your elementary school recital, on your first day of college dance class – these are all valuable. Our dancing pasts will liberate our dancing futures.

About the artist:
Ogemdi Ude is a dance and interdisciplinary artist, educator, and doula based in Brooklyn. Her performance work focuses on Black femme legacies and futures, grief, and memory. Her work has been presented at The Kitchen, Gibney, Harlem Stage, Danspace Project, Abrons Arts Center, BRIC, ISSUE Project Room, Recess Art, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Center for Performance Research, and for BAM’s DanceAfrica festival. As an educator, she has taught at The New School, Princeton University, Sarah Lawrence College, and University of the Arts.

[ID: Workshop image: Two photos are side by side, one featuring an adult dark skinned femme with short black bob braids dancing in a studio with one arm extended to the sky. The photo next to it is the dark skinned femme as a child, wearing a blue and yellow dance recital outfit with her arm extended outwards as well. Lefthand photo by Rachel Keane and righthand photo courtesy of the artist. Bio image: Performance photo of Ogemdi Ude, a dark skinned black woman. She wears her braided hair tied back, gold hoops and an off the shoulder black long sleeve top, she has a calm facial expression and her head is tilted up slightly and she looks beyond the camera. Photo by Rachel Keane.]

😎 MELT *ONLINE* !! WEEK 2: JULY 14-17 | Register for ‘Writing for Scenario/Writing for the love of dancing’ with Sara Shelton Mann!

Learn more and register on our website: https://movementresearch.org/workshops/3019/

When: Week 2: Jul 14 - 17
Time: 11am - 1pm EDT *
Location: Online, via Zoom

🌞About this workshop:
Writing for the love of it – a journal, a view, a sideways walking, portals and frames, a quadrant as a mountain climb. Exploring writing as dancers, we venture into the cave of dreaming out into the open fields. We then launch our minds in the sky.

This workshop combines writing and dance to expand awareness of the many worlds we inhabit. Through journaling, movement, and creative exercises, dancers explore working with the imagination muscle and fine-tune attention to detail. Using Chi Cultivation to warm up the body, moving to scrambling techniques for the day. Through perceptual writing, puzzles, and dance, new possibilities and perspectives awake.

🌞About the artist:
Sara Shelton Mann has been a choreographer, performer, teacher since 1967. She was a protégé of Alwin Nikolais and Murray Louis in N.Y.C. before moving to Canada where fell in love with contact improvisation. In 1979 she moved to San Francisco, CA and started the performance group, Contraband, combining the principles of contact, systems of the body, and spiritual practice into a unified system of research. Among her awards are a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, 6 Isadora Duncan Awards, Djerassi Artist in Residence Awards, Headlands Center for the Arts Residency 2016, Lifetime Achievement Bay Guardian Award, 10 Women who made a Difference, Bay Guardian Award, and Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award (2016). Sara has practiced dowsing as a healing modality since 2010, is a Master Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) practitioner, and has a Master Certification in Intuition Medicine©…

[IDs and photo credits in the comments/ALT text: Workshop image: A photo of items. A bouquet, 2 white bowls, and a piece of paper with writing. Photo courtesy of artist. Bio image: Sara Shelton Mann wears a white shirt and speaks into a microphone. Photo by Robbie Sweeney.]