SUMMER BREAK INFO:
>>>>>>>>>>> Last session before summer break is June 17, we resume on August 5. <<<<<<<<<<
WEDNESDAYS
10AM - NOON
@ BERKELEY FINNISH HALL
Somatic and socially engaged lenses
on contemporary dance & improvisation.
$15-30 donation requested
❤︎ ❤︎ ❤︎ no one turned away for lack of funds ❤︎ ❤︎ ❤︎
Rosemary Hannon is a dancer, choreographer and performer. She has performed with Vitali Kononov, Nita Little, Scott Wells, Nancy Stark Smith, Cathie Caraker, Miriam Wolodarski, Alma Esperanza Cunningham, Christine Bonansea, and Erika Tsimbrovsky, among others. Her movement research is inspired by Contact Improvisation (CI) practice. She has taught CI since 2004 when she assisted Vitali Kononov, teaching at the American Dance Festival. She has taught CI at festivals including: The West Coast Contact Improvisation Jam, The Sierra Contact Festival, and The Seattle Festival of Dance Improvisation. She has also spent the last 20 years teaching dance and working with arts education organizations. She holds an MA in Education from University of San Francisco, an MFA in Dramatic Arts from UC Davis, and is currently working on a PhD in Performance Studies at UC Davis. She has enjoyed residencies in the Bay Area at DanceGround Keriac, SafeHouse for the Arts and Studio 210. Her 2014 piece, ‘Gallus Gallus Domesticus,’ was nominated for an Isadora Duncan Dance Award. In 2017 with her collaborator, Miriam Wolodarski, she participated in a TMU funded residency exchange with Lamella House of Queer Arts in Krakow, Poland. She is currently researching scores outdoors in the wetlands.
Miriam Wolodarski (she/her) is a teaching artist, cultural worker, and mother with over a decade of experience teaching contemporary dance, improvisation, and composition at universities, festivals, and studios, including UC Davis, USF, CI@50, SFDI, wcciJAM and Freiburg CI Festival. Her original performance work has been supported by programs at YBCA, CounterPULSE, TragantDansa, Centre Cívic Barceloneta, and The Hemispheric Institute, among others. She is currently the Artistic Director of the arts organization Sense Object, and co-manager of the Berkeley Finnish Hall. She holds a MFA in Contemporary Performance from Naropa University and a BSS in Political Science from Uppsala Universitet. As a dancer, she has had the privilege of working with Scott Wells & Dancers, Sarah Shelton Mann, and Barbara Dilley, among others. Currently, she experiments with dance pedagogy through Compostable Feminisms, a project with longtime collaborator Rosemary Hannon, which frames dance as a contemplative practice giving practitioners, observers, and teachers alike opportunities to approach the socio-political, emotional, and philosophical questions in our bodies. senseobject.com
THE COMPOSTABLE FEMINISMS LABORATORY
The Wednesday Dance Lab is an outcropping of the Compostable Feminisms Laboratory, instigated by Rosemary Hannon & Miriam Wolodarski in 2021.
Feminism awakens the moment we take note of imbalances of power, but it does not end there, it blossoms into new ways of being. Our project is to ask: “What does a feminist dance practice feel like?” The idea is not to answer the question, but rather to tune to sensation, leaning into mutable structuresin order to build skills while staying in touch with the unknown, noticing and valuing places of ambiguity and ephemerality. We are interested in ways of moving, dancing, and learning together that resist the teleology of self improvement, turning instead to felt, bodily sensations, process oriented practice, and collective dialogue.
compostablefeminisms.wordpress.com
Sense Object is located at the Berkeley Finnish Hall, a community center in Berkeley, California, where we are the arts company in residence.
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