Creative Movement Workshop
creative movement workShop
Facilitated by Aubrey Donisch & Katherine Kiefer Stark
Creative Movement Workshop is back this fall!
SUNDAYS October 18 - November 22, 10 AM - 12 PM
The Cedar Works, ADA accessible
4919 Pentridge Street
Philadelphia, PA 19143
We’re excited to offer a 6 class series, each day with its own theme, made possible by the Dolfinger-McMahon Foundation. Our intention with this workshop is for participants to take all 6 classes AND we welcome you to drop-in for as many as you can.
This CMW series offers a creative insight into the choreographic process of The Naked Stark’s collective approach to dance-making and building off of tools from past Creative Movement Workshops, participants will leave this series with a model of a process to take back with them to their own creative practices–beyond a dance class, beyond choreography, and into our multidisciplinary worlds.
Intergenerational dance workshop for all levels and abilities.
PWYC suggested contributions - $5-$25
6 class series! Join for all, some or one!
October 18: Exploring my movement aesthetic
How do I like to move? How am I moving around others?
October 25*: Dancing the Site
How does the space influence how I move/create?
*Class location in West Philly TBD
November 1: Leading and Following
What are my instincts? What does it look like when I lead?
November 8: Collective Decision-making
How do we discover a collective vision? How do we arrive at decisions? How do we let go?
November 15: Breaking the rules
How do I break the rules? What does it mean to challenge an idea and create something different within a collective?
November 22: Make the Dance
With everything we’ve learned, we have 1.5 hours to make a dance together.
This is a workshop for all ages, folks with and without disabilities, and any amount of dance experience. Dance teaching artists Katherine Kiefer Stark and Aubrey Donisch invite you to practice play through guided improvisation, movement games, and dance-making. Learn from each other as we build something together!
FACILITATORS
Aubrey is a teaching artist from Minneapolis, MN where she grew up dancing in a company for youth with and without disabilities. With ten years of teaching experience, Aubrey has taught modern dance to all ages, folks across the spectrum of disability, and those with varying relationships to dance and movement. She currently teaches at The Creative Living Room and has been a teaching artist with Allens Lane Art Center, the Park Avenue Community Center, Bryn Mawr College, University City Arts League, Young Dance, Keshet Dance and Center for the Arts, and the Semilla Center for Healing and the Arts. Aubrey loves to facilitate dance as a creative process and space for discovery, fostering positive body awareness and celebrating personal expression and collaboration.
Katherine is a philadelphia-based teaching artist and artistic director of The Naked Stark. She has been teaching modern dance for close to twenty years, working primarily with adults and teens. Katherine has been a teaching artist with a variety of organizations and institutions including, Bryn Mawr College, Stockton University, Cultivate Dance Festival, American College Dance Association, Durham Juvenile Detention Center, and Enloe High School. Currently she is adjunct faculty at Widener University and offers a weekly drop-in release-based movement practice at Mascher Space. Katherine loves to facilitate dance as a community practice and creative space, deepening awareness, exploring how one’s own body moves within the movement, and finding joy and power in our creative bodies.
