Join Urban Bush Women for a unique “Dance For Every Body” workshop.
Participants will explore UBW’s methodologies for dance making and technique, with close attention to the use of breath, weight, call and response, and polyrhythm. With a focus on community-building and applications to dance education, the workshop will include moments of dance and open dialogue that charge us to embrace the ideas that each individual has a unique and powerful dance contribution. Exploring the body as a powerful agent of change, participants will uncover ways to apply this experience to their own teaching environments. Throughout this workshop, “every body" will be encouraged to find their level of challenge and comfort and partake according to their abilities, and will appreciate the groups’ diversity as an attribute to their community. Accompanying asynchronous resources allow participants to discover additional applications to dance teaching and learning.
Each workshop participant receives a complimentary ticket to see UBW on stage at 92NY’s Harkness Dance Center on December 6.
$180 until Oct 27 / $200 after
Must register by Wednesday, November 13, 2024.
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Urban Bush Women is a groundbreaking Black women-led theatrical dance company and social activism ensemble. Founded in 1984 by visionary choreographer Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, UBW is an engine and amplifier for the stories of Black Women+. Now directed by artistic leaders Chanon Judson and Mame Diarra Speis, UBW combines radical performance, deep engagement, and ancestral knowledge from the African diaspora into a force that is urgent, forward-looking, and essential …
Urban Bush Women is a groundbreaking Black women-led theatrical dance company and social activism ensemble. Founded in 1984 by visionary choreographer Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, UBW is an engine and amplifier for the stories of Black Women+. Now directed by artistic leaders Chanon Judson and Mame Diarra Speis, UBW combines radical performance, deep engagement, and ancestral knowledge from the African diaspora into a force that is urgent, forward-looking, and essential. UBW has defied expectations for 40 years. The very bodies of its founding members – Black women of various shapes and sizes – changed the landscape of who could be seen on stage as a dancer. The work placed the concerns of such women center stage. UBW embraces radical storytelling to activate social change. Whether creating genre-defying work for the stage, guiding the development of Black Women+ choreographers and producers, organizing for justice through artmaking, UBW is an innovator, operating at the vanguard. www.urbanbushwomen.org
Dance Education Laboratory (DEL)
Dr. Diane Duggan, PhD, BC-DMT
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