MAPPING CREATIVITY: free community class, open to all dancers
Class Description: Our bodies constantly give us physical and energetic cues, which we register through experiences of ease or resistance, pleasure or pain, restriction or space. We’ll tune into these cues, creating internal maps of awareness with guided somatic-based improvisations. From here, we’ll move directly into creative practices, using various scores, games and exercises to explore how we are composing our attention through the acts of creating, directing, and performing. Please bring a pen and paper.
Michelle Boulé is a choreographer, performer, teacher and Certified BodyTalk practitioner based in New York. Her work has been shown at American Realness, ISSUE Project Room (Emerging Artist Commission), Mount Tremper Arts Festival, Dance and Process at The Kitchen, Movement Research at Judson Church, Center for Performance Research, Catch Performance Series, Food for Thought at Danspace Project, and at Gertrudes iealis teatris in Latvia. Boulé has been a choreographic assistant and performance coach for Deborah Hay’s solo adaptations. She has choreographed works for the Latvian Academy of Culture, University of Oregon, and University of Illinois. She is a 2015-16 Lower Manhattan Cultural Council Extended Life Artist-in-Residence, and has had residencies at Movement Research (2012-14), DanceHouse in Dublin, Ireland (2010), and at SKITE in Caen, France (2010). As a performer, she has collaborated with Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People since 2001, receiving a New York Dance and Performance Award “Bessie” for her performance as James Dean and collaboration in the creation of “Last Meadow.” Other artists she has worked with include John Jasperse, John Scott, Deborah Hay (William Forsythe commission “If I Sing to You”), David Wampach, Donna Uchizono, Neal Medlyn, Christine Elmo, Neal Beasley, Beth Gill, Judith Sanchez-Ruiz, Doug Varone (Metropolitan Opera Ballet, Opera Colorado), Gabriel Masson, and playwright/director Rosie Goldensohn. She is part of the teaching faculty at The New School and at Movement Research in New York. She has also been faculty at Hollins University and the University of Illinois, as well as a guest teacher at dance institutions in North America, Europe, Australia and Asia. She received her B.F.A. from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Photo by Eric McNatt
