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Stephen Thompson Workshop
Sunday, April 6, 2014
1-3pm
Class with Stephen Thompson
The focus of this class is on the integrity of an active body. This allows individuals to refine their personal aesthetics and expand their own movement possibilities. The classes will start with an emphasis on the body as a sensitive container. Stephen will guide participates to awaken sensorial patterns, to recognize inner and outer influence, fluctuating energy potentials, as well as finding an open and grounded state to work with, a body ready to dance. After this physical investigation the body is ready to examine its role by authoring (vs modeling), sensing (vs searching) and doing (vs interpreting). Using references of form, set material, coordination exercises and improvisational scores, participants will examine the relationship of what we do and how we do it. Through self-observation and dialogue we can redefine and re-direct our habits, skills and play into expanding and broadening our experience as artists.
Stephens's class material is an amalgamation of his vast experience as a dancer, choreographer and citizen of this planet.
workshop will take place at
The Colburn School, Studio A
200 S Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90012
$15 in advance/$20 walk-in
STEPHEN THOMPSON is a performance artist, choreographer, researcher and pedagogue originally from Calgary, Alberta. His introduction to movement and performing was through competitive figure skating. He received a Bachelor of Kinesiology (art and science of movement) and Dance from the University of Calgary.
Stephen has collaborated with numerous Canadian and European companies and artists including Steeve Paxton, Benoit Lachambre, Dick Wong, Antonija Livingstone and Jennifer Lacey, Fabrice Ramalingom, Public Recordings and Yves-Noel Genod. Recent projects; Trajal Harell's (USA) 2012 Bessie award winning Antigone Sr. /Twenty Looks or Paris is burning at the Judson Church (Large), Fabrice Lambert's Solaire presented by Theatre De La Ville, Paris and with Liz Santoro in Relative Collider in Artdanthé 2014.
Stephen has presented his own work internationally within various contexts including with visual artists Xavier Veilhan, Kendell Geers (No Government No Cry 2011) and Laurent Goldring (Nuit Blanche Paris 2011).
RELATED LINKS
www.redcat.org
Stephen Thompson performs with Trajal Harrell at REDCAT:
Thursday, April 3, 2014 to Sunday, April 6, 2014
Trajal Harrell: Antigone Sr./Twenty Looks or Paris is Burning at the Judson Church (L)
"[Harrell] left just enough chinks in his armor of struts, jutting hips and commanding gazes to remind us that the most startling power of performance often lives in its exquisite vulnerability." - The New York Times
With a bold theatrical vision and a potent score of remixed pop, electronica and more, Trajal Harrell concocts an intoxicating blend of strutting, voguing, extravagantly outré fashion and irresistible movement in the latest and largest edition of his acclaimed series of works inspired by a provocative question: What if the Harlem ball culture of the 1960s had paraded its way into downtown New York's early postmodern dance scene? This speculation is smartly brought into a contemporary context through Harrell's choreography for an international ensemble of virtuosic dancers. As a genre-bending exploration of race, gender, sexuality, culture and history, the resulting Antigone Sr. is much more than a fierce, all-male take on the classic tragedy. It serves up a revelatory investigation of Sophocles' themes, set to dance music with deep bass.
Pictured: Trajal Harrell & Stephen Thompson, photo by Miana Jun
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LocationThe Colburn School, Studio A (View)
200 S Grand Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90012
United States
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| Kid Friendly: No |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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