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A Choreographic Mind with Susan Rethorst at Links Hall Chicago
Enrollment is limited
$70 for the day, light lunch included.
$62 for the day, bring your own lunch.
(If you are an artist/student who needs to pay a lower fee, please email sbcarter@indiana.edu and we will contact you to confirm we can accommodate your request.
dress: 3111 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
Phone:(773) 281-0824
Please contact Selene Carter, at sbcarter@indiana.edu
From Susan, about A Choreographic Mind:
I teach from the point of view that making is an endless quest with ever shifting ground. I encourage an attitude of fueling work with one's questions, not regarding plans or themes as pre-requisites. I regard teaching as a conversational mode; my exercises are proposals in action.
My own interests have to do with the nature of movement and its communication, how it operates as phenomena; this fuels my aesthetic and methods. I present composition initially from this point of view; my exercises propose ways of perceiving and proceeding that engage these ideas. But at the same time I am interested in creating a situation in which each student can locate her/his aesthetic and goals in the larger picture of dance's many mini cultures.
I am interested as well in giving students the ability to recognize and access states necessary to making work; intuition, perception, cognition, interiority, emotional distance, spontaneity, pleasure, will, reflection, humor.
I work with exercises and discussion. Exercises are sometimes done solo, sometimes as a duet or in a group. Each student begins to develop pieces of a dance, as well as gain strategies for beginning, continuing, structuring and perceiving his or her dance. I work also very much with being alert to ones own assumptions about how and why dance is made.
Through the exercises, a dance begins to arise. Toward the end of the time, I begin a conversation that resembles feedback but that is designed more around what each persons dance making reveals of their concerns and interests than around advice or criticism. Usually, this conversation leads to my asking each person key questions about their work to enable a continuance that is broad and awake.
BIO:
SUSAN RETHORST
Born 1951
BA Bennington College 1974
MFA Amsterdam School of the Arts 2009
Susan Rethorst, born in 1951 in Washington D.C., began modern dance studies at an early age. Tutorials with Judith Dunn at Bennington College laid the groundwork for Rethorst's artistic sensibility. Since 1975, Rethorst has steadily created dances out of New York City. Since 1995, she has divided her time between New York and Amsterdam, teaching choreography throughout Europe and Scandinavia and continuing to make work in both Europe and America.
Rethorst's work has been presented by The Museum of Modern Art; The Kitchen Center, Dance Theater Workshop, Danspace Project at St. Marks, The Downtown Whitney Museum, among others, as well as at various dance theaters, universities, and festivals throughout the U.S. Internationally her work has been produced by The Holland Festival, Spazio Zero Rome, The Kunsthalle Basel, The Aix-en-Provence Festival, Jerusalem's Room Festival, among others.
An internationally renowned teacher of choreography, Rethorst has been instrumental in devising BA and post-graduate programs in Copenhagen, Cork, Salzburg and Amsterdam. In 2001 she initiated, along with three others, a Master's program for the Amsterdam School of the Arts. In 2005 she started a summer program devoted to the study of choreography in Pennsylvania titled Studio Upson in Pennsylvania (SUPA), now moved to the Center for Performance Research in Brooklyn. In addition, she has led workshops and seminars on choreography in Helsinki, Barcelona, Jerusalem, among others; guest taught at Bennington, Ohio State University, Bard, NYU, Barnard, among others; and workshops on a choreographic approach to media in London and Amsterdam. A documentary of her teaching methods and philosophy is currently in production at La Caldera in Barcelona.
Rethorst was among the first to receive a New York Dance and Performance Award ('Bessie') for Outstanding Achievement in 1985. In further recognition of her choreographic achievements, she has been the recipient of many grants from the National Endowment for the Arts (1979-1989, 1992-1995), as well as support from the Creative Artist's Public Service Program (1979), the New York State Council on the Arts (1979-1983), the Foundation for Contemporary Performance (1988 and 2003), the New York Foundation for the Arts (1989,1993), the Ernie Pagnano Memorial Fund (1991), the Joyce Mertz Gilmore Foundation (1992), and a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1999). In 2008, Rethorst received her second Bessie for 208 East Broadway: Suitcase Dreams and in 2010 she received the prestigious Alpert Award.
Rethorst has lectured on dance and choreography at Dartington College in England, Arizona State University, New York University The Laban School in London, the Theater School of Helsinki and the Amsterdam School of the Arts, among others. She has published articles on her choreographic thinking in Movement Research Journal and Choreographic Encounters and her book 'A Choreographic Mind: Autobodygraphical Writings (Best books of 2012 New Yorker Magazine) was published in March of 2012 by The Theater Academy of Helsinki.
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LocationLinks Hall Chicago (View)
3111 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL 60618 Phone:(773) 281-0824
Chicago, IL 60618
United States
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| Minimum Age: 16 |
| Kid Friendly: No |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
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