CANCELLED: Choreographies of Embodied Empathy with Funsch Dance Experience

In this weekend workshop, Christy Funsch will facilitate a choreographic process utilizing collective means for highlighting individual voices. Building vocabularies, structures, and content, all the while interrogating the politics and poetics embedded (consciously not) in our material and our choices, we will practice witnessing and inter-mentorship. We will build new systems for living through our art making, recreating the world as we want it to be. Workshop culminates in a public showing. For questions and more information contact Christy at Christy@funschdance.org.

Since forming Funsch Dance Experience in 2002, Christy Funsch has had her work presented nationally and internationally, on its own and in collaborative partnerships with Nol Simonse, Julie Mayo, and Peiling Kao. Christy holds an MFA and a Movement Analysis Certification, and she has been awarded choreographic residencies at CounterPULSE, Djerassi, Shawl Anderson, the U Cross Foundation, and Yaddo. She has participated in ODC’s Sandbox Series and CHIME Across Borders, the Margaret Jenkins Dance Company’s cross-national Choreographers in Mentorship Exchange program with mentor Tere O’Connor. In 2014, she was presented in Yerba Buena’s Bay Area Now Series and named one of Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch.” In 2015 she taught her improvisational practice 100 Days Score at ImpulsTANZ in Vienna, and she became the first woman to be granted permission to learn and perform Daniel Nagrin's 1965 solo, Path. She regularly facilitates Wrecking, based on Susan Rethorst's model for re- imagining dance, and she has been a guest artist at several universities, including James Madison University, the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, and Virginia Commonwealth University. In 2019 she taught and choreographed at the Escola Superior de Dança in Lisbon as a Fulbright Scholar.

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