Dissemination of Living Art pedagogy as a working method of instruction and
facilitation for performance development – using the RAW-(Material) project to provide theme and context.
Living Art workshop and Raw
Material performance piece with Circle Modern Dance
In 1991 I was involved in founding the dance
theatre company Circle Modern Dance in Knoxville TN and served as co-director,
dancer, choreographer and teacher with the company until the year 2000. Now, in
2016, the company is still going strong and celebrating its 25th
anniversary with a whole year of special programming.
As part of the celebrations, CMD received
funding to invite the founding directors back to work with the company again
during this anniversary year.
I decided to incorporate my RAW-(Material)
project and Living Art pedagogy into my work with the company as a guest
artist.
I introduced them to the project with a solo
performance piece for their winter show “Modern Dance Primitive Light” in
December, then returned in March to teach a Living Art workshop and structure a
performance piece they could continue to develop using the tools provided by
the Living Art method.
LIVING ART workshop with CIRCLE MODERN DANCE
- REPORT
On May 19th, members of the
company performed a short version of the resulting piece for a CMD fundraising
event. http://knoxfocus.com/2016/05/12330/
The narrative arch of the piece is a story of
personal evolution and individuation.
Beginning as a primordial mass, the dancers
gradually each take on their own form and character in response and
relationship with other forms of nature and the environment.
Utilizing the Living Art tools from the
workshop to investigate the Self as raw material and its relationship to other
raw materials, the dancers each developed their own role in this piece.
The piece is structured in such a way that it
is a pliable, plastic, adjustable entity that can constantly be developed.
This is their inaugural version.
VIDEO
RAW-(Material):
Evolution
Circle
Modern Dance
May
19 2016
The
Emporium – Knoxville TN
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