CONTACT IMPROVISATION: practice and perFORMance

June 26 - 29

A four-day event  geared towards experienced CI dancers focusing on furthering movement research and practicing CI in performance. The weekend will consist of classes, labs, compositional scores, and structured witnessing.

CI: practice and perFORMance is organized and facilitated by Lilianna Kane and Anna Vomacka. We will also have some sessions led by guest teachers Julianne Cariño and Chris Cahoon.

The event will take place at the beautiful GROUNDWORKS space, in Gardiner, NY. 

GROUNDWORKS has private rooms, shared dorms, and camping grounds, not to mention a gorgeous 1200 sq ft open hall dance studio with a sprung wooden floor.

Registration to the event includes room and board (home cooked fresh food by our chef and CI colleague, Anya Smolnikova), morning espresso, tea, snacks, in addition to usage of all of Groundworks’ amenities (wood burning sauna, hot tub, hiking trails, etc.)

Join us!

Learn, experience, play, and connect through the medium of Japanese inspired rope bondage. This weekend retreat, designed for all levels of experience, explores intimacy, sensuality, and creativity within the realm of Shibari, movement practice, and alternative community building.

Recharge in the sauna, swim in the pond, enjoy nature walks and take in the sun, while our chef prepares a delicious selection of healthy meals to complement your rejuvenating experience at Peace Temple.

More information HERE

ONTACT IMPROVISATION: practice and perFORMance 

 A four-day event  geared towards experienced CI dancers focusing on furthering movement research and practicing CI in performance. The weekend will consist of classes, labs, compositional scores, and structured witnessing.

REGISTRATION IS OPEN NOW

CI: practice and perFORMance is organized and facilitated by Lilianna Kane and Anna Vomacka. We will also have some sessions led by guest teachers Julianne Cariño and Chris Cahoon.

The event will take place at the beautiful GROUNDWORKS space, in Gardiner, NY. 

GROUNDWORKS has private rooms, shared dorms, and camping grounds, not to mention a gorgeous 1200 sq ft open hall dance studio with a sprung wooden floor.

Registration to the event includes room and board (home cooked fresh food by our chef and CI colleague, Anya Smolnikova), morning espresso, tea, snacks, in addition to usage of all of Groundworks’ amenities (wood burning sauna, hot tub, hiking trails, etc.)

Join us!

More information, including facilitator bios can be found HERE

Groundswell Series 2022

Friday, June 17th @ 6:30pm

Saturday, June 18th, 2022 @ 6:30pm

Louis Valentino, Jr. Park & Pier, Red Hook, Brooklyn (Ferris St. & Coffey St.)

Suggested donation $15

featuring choreography by:

Alex Bittner & Anna Vomacka 

Amirov Dance Theater

Madelyn Sher

Sarah Zucchero

Groundswell Series is a curated program of pop-up, site-specific professional dance performances in outdoor spaces of Brooklyn, New York.

MORE INFO: https://www.groundswellseries.com/2022

TICKETS: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/groundswell-series-2022-tickets-346828863467

Premiere of Nami Yamamoto’s Trooper’s Brother, happening at Roulette in Brooklyn, NYC June 14-16th.

Tickets can be found HERE

W A S T E in S P A C E: Art 4 Climate Justice (Two-Day Immersive Fundraiser) will take place at a venue located in Brooklyn on December 20th & 21st 2019. This two-day event will use art as a means to shed light on the omniscient presence of waste in our lives, building awareness of the unavoidable existence of climate change and its effects on our lives using various movement-based workshops and performance. We will fill the event space with soft plastic waste, illuminating the fact that we are already living in a world populated by mirco-plastics and toxicity. How do our movements change when we have to negotiate not only other bodies in space but plastic waste? How does the presence of the plastic alter how we think, view, and interact? How do our interactions with the plastic affect our emotional state?

Friday December 20th we will offer yoga, contact improvisation, puppeteering, repurposing/upcycling workshop, and community energy work. With curiosity, we will examine the impact of the presence of plastic on a somatic level, and investigate whether movement can enable us to move through/with the collective grief extorted by climate crisis. The evening will conclude with a performance of Embrace(d) (working title).

Saturday December 21st we will offer yoga and then set-up a holiday marketplace. The marketplace will be a space for local vendors to sell sustainable handmade goods: ceramics, bags, beauty products, and more. The evening will conclude with a second performance of Embrace(d) (working title), and event will climax in a Dancing for Justice Dance Party.

During the course of both days we will be collecting non-recyclable soft plastic waste, Brita filters, and toothpaste tubes. We will be recycling these products through Terracycle (https://www.terracycle.com/en-US/).

Throughout, and leading up to this event, we will be raising funds to donate towards combating the climate crisis. The funds will be donated to Indigenous Rising: An Indigenous Environmental Network Project (http://indigenousrising.org/).

For more info please visit: https://www.triskelionarts.org/tree-line

For tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/triskelion-arts-presentstreeline-dance-works-tickets-67622188787

Performing in a new work by Nami Yamamoto.

*Please note Nami’s piece is part of PROGRAM B

May 31st 8pm

June 1st 2pm

June 2nd 5pm

More information: https://stannswarehouse.org/show/labapalooza-2019/