Learn tools and skills for creating site-specific performance work (for all disciplines). Discover the opportunities of site-responsive design in nature, working with the environment, sounds, light, and sites. Inspired by movement composition and theater making techniques like Moment Work, Viewpoints and movement technologies like Contact Improvisation. MovingGround collaborators Maxine Flasher-Duzgunes, Ramlah Yavar, and Sophia Grimani will lead this workshop.
When: Saturday October 18th 12:30-4pm
Where: The Albany Bulb (1 Buchanan St, Albany, CA 94706)
Cost: $0-$50 sliding scale
Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1717328027359?aff=oddtdtcreator
Maxine Flasher-Düzgüneş is poet, dance artist, and filmmaker engaging with the disciplines of choreography and visual art as tools for grasping poetic language. She has served as resident artist at Djerassi Resident Artist Program, Tofte Lake Center, Surel’s Place, iMPACt Center for the Arts, and The Center at Eagle Hill, and has been commissioned by Sadler’s Wells (UK) for her dance writing and by World Stage Design (Canada), 92NY’s Future Dance Festival (New York), and FACT/SF Summer Dance Festival (San Francisco) for her choreography. She is currently a teaching artist for California Poets in the Schools and Gallery Route One, and the coordinator of Marin County’s first Youth Poet Laureate Program.
Following a love affair with tango that took her halfway around the world, Ramlah has danced with a gorgeous array of human and equine artists in the Bay Area. She received an MFA in Art at the University of Iowa and acted in film and stage projects over a decade in Los Angeles, and her movement practice is rooted in conversation with these and other forms. Ramlah is ever grateful for collaborations with musicians, artists, and culture workers and the chance to explore relational narratives and collective liberation through the embodied language of dance.
Sophia Grimani is a Bay Area based artist focusing in the mediums of dance, film, and photography. She obtained her BA from Bennington College in 2022 and is now working in San Francisco. Her work functions around the themes of the female experience, sexuality, the gaze, and nature. She is interested in the intersection of dance and media, making the majority of her work multimedia performance. Sophia has presented work at Safehouse arts and Dance Mission Theater. She works as a solo and collaborative artist and is especially interested in interdisciplinary making.
