with Rose Pasquarello Beauchamp
Tuesday, March 23rd, 2021
2:15PM-3:15PM
All are welcome to these free discussions, but please register to attend>
This workshop will explore the role that Somatics plays in influencing social change while encouraging participants to view Somatics as a form of community practice. The habitual patterns that we establish as human movers can often become automatic and remain unquestioned. Using Somatics as a frame, participants will consider new ways to move in the world with intention while being aware of social movement constructs. Through movement investigation and thoughtful discussion, participants will be asked to consider how our physicality can shift divisive trends in the current socio-political environment.
Rose Pasquarello Beauchamp (MFA, CLMA) is a dance artist, educator, filmmaker, and activist. A transplant to Rochester, she has carved her space in the community while making work with electricGrit dance. Rose’s creative interests lie in integrating dance, theater, design, and media while her artistic research centers around collaboration across disciplines. Her choreographic work with inFluxdance and SirensProof Films has been featured internationally for the past 14 years and continues to flourish with electricGrit dance. She has been selected for multiple residencies and performance projects across the country. Most recently, she was selected as the recipient of the 2020 Western NY Choreographers’ Initiative Award, sponsored by NYS Dance Force. Rose is co-founder of Artists Coalition for Change Together (ACCT), an organization founded in 2016 as a way to engage dancer-citizens in Rochester and beyond. In 2017, she received a grant from the Rochester Center for Community Leadership to spearhead an initiative using dance to foster collaborative relationships across various communities. Since then, her work as a community-engaged educator and artist has deepened. She teaches with a focus on the dancer-citizen and creates with an emphasis on community engagement. Rose continues to perform and present her creative research internationally with a focus on dance as an agent of change. Currently, she is exploring metaphor as it relates to socio-political art-making and bodies of resistance. She is an Associate Professor at the University of Rochester in the Program of Dance and Movement.
