COMING IN AUGUST!

DANCEbank Summer Workshops

Saturday & Sunday, 11am-1:30pm

$15 single class/$25 both days

August 1 & 2 - Simone Forti

August 8 & 9 - Taisha Paggett

August 15 & 16 - Mira Kingsley

August 22 & 23 - Sabela Grimes

August 28 & 29 - Anna B. Scott

August 1 & 2 - Simone Forti

A Weave of Moving, Speaking & Writing

We respond to our environment, both immediate, and broad and complex. Our bodies change tone, experience and act on kinesthetic impulses, while our minds wander and focus. The structures of body, of language, of feeling, interact. That’s what we will explore.

Simone Forti is a dancer and writer in her seventies, enjoying maturity while urgently exploring new strategies.

August 8 & 9 - Taisha Paggett, Everything bodies

This movement class will begin with floor and standing exercises based on connecting breath with movement, joint articulation, and tapping into both internal and external focus and awareness. Phrase work will be pulled from a current choreography project “everything,” which plays with the task of physicalizing multiple sensations in a single moment.

We approach movement with an inquiring, non-judgmental mind, with the goal of finding new sensations of awareness in our individual physicality.

Taisha Paggett is a Los Angeles based dance artist and co-founder of the dance journal project, itch. Her work and collaborations for the stage, gallery, and public sphere have been presented and supported by several venues throughout California as well as in Chicago, New York City and Utrecht, The Netherlands. She has worked extensively in the projects of Victoria Marks and David Rousseve, and is a member of the audio action collective, Ultra-Red. She holds an MFA from UCLA’s Department of World Arts and Cultures.