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Ampersand International Arts Festival Workshop: The Aura CuriAtlas Playground
Location
Phi Beta Kappa (PBK) Memorial Hall, Room 159601 Jamestown Rd
Williamsburg, VA 23185Map this location
Access & Features
- Open to the public
This workshop will dive into the creative world of Aura CuriAtlas and Human Landscape Dance through guided movement improvisation, partnering, and collaborative creation. Joan Gavaler, Malcolm Shute, Matthew Thornton, and Aaron Birk will share the foundation of their practices to provide an opportunity for participants to invent original movement ideas and cultivate collaborative relationships. Participants from all backgrounds are welcome. Come play with us!
These presenters will also perform Moments In Our Grasp during the festival.
Joan Gavaler is the Artistic Director of Aura CuriAtlas and a Professor of Dance at William & Mary. As a choreographer and movement director, Joan has created 85 original works and has been a driving force behind four performing companies. She relishes collaborative discovery and has worked with poets, visual artists, composers, musicians, actors, directors, acrobats, psychologists, geographers, physicists, and neuroscientists on dance and theatre projects. She has been invited by over 80 organizations to present and teach in the U.S., Europe, and Asia.
Malcolm Shute founded Human Landscape Dance in 2006. Noted for “…ingenious choreography and staging...” by The Washington Post, Shute’s dances are characterized by intimate portraits of people using touch to communicate, bodies molding to create a collage of images. Shute organizes dance concerts around the world, bringing together movement artists of various backgrounds to share their work with audiences. Shute has been a faculty member of the Towson University Dance Department since 2004. He has led workshops in partnering and contact improvisation internationally.
Sponsored by: Department of Theatre & Performance