In this 4-hour in-person workshop, participants will explore how Merce Cunningham’s works and process can be shared in the classroom as a way to spark the imagination, offering new ways for students to approach dance as movers, creators, and as active viewers.
Participants will be introduced to one module of the Merce Cunningham Endless Possibilities curriculum, created by Jennifer Goggans/Merce Cunningham Trust and Catherine Gallant/The Dance Education Laboratory (DEL).
Merce Cunningham’s lifetime of exploration into the possibilities for movement through the human body is filled with ideas to guide individual exploration as well as collaboration. Participants will investigate how Cunningham’s work can activate new ways of looking at the body in space and time, including stimulating connections to sound, visual art and technology. Join us for an introduction to the Endless Possibilities curriculum and imagine the potential for you and your students!
$175 until April 14 / $195 after
Must register by Friday, May 3, 2024.
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Catherine Gallant, MFA was the assistant director at 92NY Harkness Dance Center from 1994-96 just as DEL was beginning and has been on the faculty of the Dance Education Laboratory since 2003. She has presented her work at The 92nd Street Y, New York Harkness Dance Center, WestFest and American Dance Guild. Recently Catherine Gallant/DANCE performed in Ireland and in Scotland at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Catherine is also the director of Dances by Isadora which, since 1989, performs, teaches and collaborates with dancers throughout the world. They have appeared on the Jacob’s Pil ...
Catherine Gallant, MFA was the assistant director at 92NY Harkness Dance Center from 1994-96 just as DEL was beginning and has been on the faculty of the Dance Education Laboratory since 2003. She has presented her work at The 92nd Street Y, New York Harkness Dance Center, WestFest and American Dance Guild. Recently Catherine Gallant/DANCE performed in Ireland and in Scotland at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Catherine is also the director of Dances by Isadora which, since 1989, performs, teaches and collaborates with dancers throughout the world. They have appeared on the Jacob’s Pillow’s Inside/Out Series, Battery Dance Festival and at Green-Wood Cemetery. Catherine appears in the US version of Jerome Bel’s Isadora Duncan. She began her study of the technique of Isadora Duncan in 1982 with Julia Levien and is a founding member of the Duncan Archive. Catherine is the dance educator at PS 89 in Manhattan. She and her students were featured in the Emmy-nominated PBS documentary, PS DANCE! Ms. Gallant is a graduate of the Boston Conservatory and holds an MFA in Dance from Temple University.
DEL The Works and Process of Merce Cunningham: Endless Possibilities
Jennifer Goggans began dancing in her hometown of Owensboro, KY, and continued her studies at the Nutmeg Ballet in Connecticut. She graduated Summa Cum Laude from SUNY Purchase in 2000 and joined the Merce Cunningham Dance Company that same year. Goggans danced with MCDC until the company's planned closure in 2011 and was named Assistant to the Director of Choreography during the company's Legacy Tour. Goggans has been teaching Cunningham Technique since 2005 and has taught master classes and workshops throughout the United States and across Europe. In addition, she has staged vario ...
Jennifer Goggans began dancing in her hometown of Owensboro, KY, and continued her studies at the Nutmeg Ballet in Connecticut. She graduated Summa Cum Laude from SUNY Purchase in 2000 and joined the Merce Cunningham Dance Company that same year. Goggans danced with MCDC until the company's planned closure in 2011 and was named Assistant to the Director of Choreography during the company's Legacy Tour. Goggans has been teaching Cunningham Technique since 2005 and has taught master classes and workshops throughout the United States and across Europe. In addition, she has staged various Cunningham works including Cross Currents (1964) for the Augusta Ballet, Verb Ballet and the New York Theater Ballet, and also Winterbranch (1964) for Benjamin Millepied's L.A. Dance Project's inaugural season. Moreover, she and Robert Swinston staged Un jour ou deux (1973) for the Paris Opera Ballet and BIPED (1999) for the Bayerisches Staatsballett of Munich. Goggans has also staged Cunningham work for students at Yale Dance Theater, the Centre National de Dance Contemporaine (CNDC)-Angers, the Frank Sinatra Performing Arts High School and the Beijing Dance Academy. Goggans has performed with the Louisville Ballet, MOMIX, Chantal Yzermans, Christopher Williams and has appeared as a guest artist with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company. She also studied fashion design at New York's Fashion Institute of Technology and has created costumes for Tere O'Connor's Wrought Iron Fog, as well as RoseAnne Spradlin's Survive Cycle and beginning of soemthing. She is currently working as the Program Coordinator and faculty member for the Merce Cunningham Trust and recently completed teaching a course at the Juilliard School where she and Jean Freebury will be staging BIPED this spring.
Dance Education Laboratory (DEL)
Course created by Dr. Nyama McCarthy-Brown
Jody Gottfried Arnhold, CMA, MA & Ann Biddle, MA
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