Choreographer Alexsa Durrans presents a dance workshop that inspects the conditioning our bodies undergo when institutions ask us to carry complex systems of knowledge making and labor practice. How can we acknowledge and interrogate these tangled systems through the rigorous work of movement: gesture, posture and rhythm?
In this workshop, participants rest, talk, engage and move together, using each other as guiding posts and learning modules. The class explores movement in the body that quirks, glitches and side-tracks from embodied, or inscribed actions — a deviation from what is assumed for our bodies to do and participate in.
The workshop is free and open level. No prior movement experience is required. We encourage a space for all folx to come and center their own practices while engaging with and encouraging the work and labor others bring into the space.
ALEXSA DURRANS
Alexsa Durrans is choreographer and video artist. She received her BA from UCLA in World Arts and Cultures/Dance and her MFA from California Institute of the Arts in Choreography with a concentration in Integrated Media. Alexsa creates site specific movement landscapes and sculptural video installations. Her practice researches knowledge sharing systems by coaxing movement to topple over written and verbal language in order to look at slippages in both forms. Alexsa believes that working with the body is to resist docility and to imagine new ways of filling time and space.
SUBJECT STUDIES
Subject Studies is a new annual series offering practical and non-practical public engagements, initiated by the MAK Center for Art and Architecture. Its inaugural theme, Reorientations, developed by MAK Center Director Jia Yi Gu and Rosario Talevi, directs questions towards institutional habits, routines and practices through perspectives of care, repair and transformation.
This program is supported in part by the Department of Cultural Affairs, Los Angeles (DCA), PICE AC/E's Programme for the Internationalization of Spanish Culture and Thomas Mann House.
Image Credit: TAKK Architecture.
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