CHOREOGRAPHERS LAB:
Artistic Process/Community Interaction

August 19–27, 2008

 

Program Director:

Celeste Miller

For: 12 choreographers, age 24 and up, with prior experience in producing work for and with community groups.

Choreographic practice and voice are stimulated and strengthened through commissioning, residency, and collaborative opportunities conducted in community settings such as schools, health centers, and housing projects. This lab focuses on ways to approach community interactions that probe, refine, and deepen the artistic process.

Artistic statements will be refined, or crafted, over the course to identify the resonant themes and source material specific to each choreographer. Daily movement labs, journal writing, discussion sessions, and selected readings and videos will delve deeply into the professional rigor required to create community dance-making experiences while fully involving the artist’s aesthetic points of view, inquiry, and inspiration.

Attendance at Festival events, including performances, talks, exhibits, and master classes, will be an integral part of the program.

A Participant in the Choreographers Lab in rehearsal. 

Photo: Christopher Duggan 

"I was able to purely focus on my

creative process, being guided by

excellent teachers and staff and being

inspired by other students and artists."

- Johanna Hegenscheidt,

2003 choreographer participant

and Teaching Artist with Lincoln Center

Institute

Working on partnering in a master class.

Photo: Mike van Sleen 

Students performing on the Inside/Out stage,
Photo: Christopher Duggan