WORKSHOP: MOVEMENT AND CRITICAL PRACTICE
#community, #contemporary dance practice, #decolonial theories, #black dance
Organized in collaboration with Movement Research from New York and Bazaar Festival from Prague this 2 day workshop will offer the possibility to think and move collectively around the themes of our own and collective dance histories, resources, community with US based artists and thinkers Ogemdi Ude and Thomas F. DeFrantz.
Thinking with influential writers of an African diaspora globality (Glissant, Sharpe, Ahmed) we will consider how histories can forecast creativity, and how artistry can re-map the territories of the predictable. Discussion, movement exercises, and collective actions will encourage embodied awareness of how a self can be constructed alongside and among others.
Please wear comfortable clothes, and bring a notebook or journal to write in.
Movers and dancers of different proficiency are equally welcomed, as well as thinkers interested in the topic.
With the support:
Global Sharing Practices, Movement Research, Slovak Arts Council
This project is supported by the GPS/Global Practice Sharing Program of Movement Research with funding from the Trust for Mutual Understanding as part of the GPS 10th Anniversary
Season.
Schedule:
7th March: Saturday
10:00-12:30 Morning session
13:30-16:00 Afternoon session
8th March: Sunday
10:00-12:30 Morning session
13:30-16:00 Afternoon session
TICKET: https://goout.net/.../ogemdi-ude-a-thomas-f.../sziahgy/
Thomas F. DeFrantz, Professor at Northwestern University, directs SLIPPAGE: Performance|Culture|Technology, a humanities and creative research lab and National Performance Network partner. Believes in our shared capacity to do better and engage creative spirit for a collective good that is anti-racist, proto-feminist, and queer affirming. Convenes the Black Performance Theory working group and is founding director of the Collegium for African Diaspora Dance. Faculty and teaching at the University of the Arts Mobile MFA in Dance; ImPulsTanz; SNDO; Juilliard; New Waves Institute; P.A.R.T.S.; Movement Research; Bennington College; faculty at Hampshire College, Stanford, Yale, MIT, NYU, Duke, the University of Nice. DeFrantz contributed concept and a voice-over for a permanent installation on Black Social Dance that opened with the Smithsonian Museum of African American Life and Culture in 2016.
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Ogemdi Ude is a dance and interdisciplinary artist, educator, and doula based in Brooklyn. Her performance work focuses on Black femme legacies and futures, grief, and memory. Her work has been presented at Kampnagel, New York Live Arts, The Kitchen, Gibney, Harlem Stage, Danspace Project, Abrons Arts Center, BRIC, ISSUE Project Room, Recess Art, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Center for Performance Research, and for BAM's DanceAfrica festival. As an educator, she has taught at The New School, Princeton University, Sarah Lawrence College, and University of the Arts. She is a 2025 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Choreography, 2025 Princess Grace Honoraria in Choreography, 2025-2028 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow, and 2024 NEFA National Dance Project Production Grant recipient. She has been a 2024/2025 BAX Artist-in-Residence, 2024-2025 Leslie Lohman Artist Fellow, 2022-2024 Movement Research Artist-in-Residence, 2021 danceWEB Scholar, 2021 Laundromat Project Create Change Artist-in-Residence, and a 2019-2020 Center for Ballet and the Arts at NYU Resident Fellow. In January 2022 she appeared on the cover of Dance Magazine for their annual “25 to Watch” issue. Most recently, she has contributed a text Watch Me to a collection edited by Thomas F. DeFrantz and Annie-B Parson: Dance History(s): Imagination as a Form of Study published by Dancing Foxes Press and Wesleyan University Press.
