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SUMMARY:Solo Practice: On Pleasure and Attention
DESCRIPTION:Facilitated by Alexander Davis\, this drop-in workshop is for anyone interested in building a sustainable solo dancing practice. Through guided scores\, attention practices\, and pleasure-focused improvisation\, participants will explore what holds their interest\, and what they actually want to spend time doing as movers. \nThe class offers tools for working alone in the studio (or the living room) that can serve whatever you need them to: generating choreographic material\, maintaining a training practice between classes or projects\, moving as a form of self-care\, or following a thread of personal history into autobiographical work. Drawing on contemporary technique\, somatic practice\, and compositional thinking\, the workshop trusts that curiosity and pleasure are legitimate starting points for serious dancing. No prior experience required\, just a willingness to move\, notice\, and play. \nALEXANDER DAVIS: \nAlexander Davis is a Boston-based homosexual\, performer\, fiber artist\, and choreographer. He is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Dance at Dean College. He holds an MFA from Smith College (2023) and a BA from Keene State College (2014). Davis was named City of Boston Artist Fellow in 2019. \nHis most recent solo\, “Gay Aesthetic: Based on a True Story\,” premiered at the American Dance Festival in December 2025\, where it was developed through a residency at the Samuel H. Scripps Studios. In March\, Alex brought “Gay Aesthetic..” to The Dance Complex\, in a shared performance with Sara Juli. \nHis performance work includes collaborations with Ryan Landry’s Gold Dust Orphans\, Boston Lyric Opera\, Global Arts Live\, and Urbanity Dance. He assisted choreographer Monica Bill Barnes on Greta Gerwig’s film Little Women (2019). Davis’s fiber art series Federation of Athletic Gentleman (F.A.G.) was exhibited at Childs Gallery in Interlaced: The Fabric of Art\, which he curated. His curatorial work includes Gaze: A History of Male Physique Photography and Closet to Quarantine: Queer Art Then and Now. \nTickets Soon\n\nIf you or a guest in your party has accessibility needs for this event\, please contact Joe Juknievich at joe@dancecomplex.org or (617) 547-9363.
URL:https://www.dancecomplex.org/event/solo-practice-on-pleasure-and-attention/
LOCATION:Studio 7
CATEGORIES:DC Events,Workshops
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SUMMARY:Intersection of Movement & Text
DESCRIPTION:Maine-based Performance Artist Sara Juli will lead students through a workshop that teaches tools from her signature method of seamlessly fusing movement with text\, as part of a process of generating material for autobiographical\, introspective work. \nThrough journaling\, dance improvisation\, sound and text\, participants will leave with a bit of choreography that acts as a portal to something vulnerable and personal. The workshop is appropriate for dance and/or theater artists or students and non-artists alike. \nPlease bring a notebook or paper and pen for writing. \nSARA JULI: \nMaine-based performance artist Sara Juli (she/her) has been creating and performing innovative comedic dance-theater for over 25 years. She has been fortunate to tour her work to venues worldwide including: American Dance Festival\, Dixon Place\, Performance Space New York\, The Chocolate Factory\, New York Live Arts\, Judson Church\, TEDxDirigo\, Bates Dance Festival\, Bowdoin College\, Connecticut College\, Dance Complex\, SPACE Gallery\, 3S Artspace\, Capital Center for the Arts\, Napa Valley Opera House\, Artown Festival (NV)\, Edinburgh Fringe Festival\, Melbourne Fringe Festival\, Noorderzon Festival (The Netherlands)\, Chelsea Theatre (London)\, Aotea Centre (New Zealand)\, TSEH (Russia) and many more. Her work has been commissioned by American Dance Festival\, Performance Space 122 (NYC)\, Dixon Place (NYC)\, SPACE Gallery (ME)\, Portland Ovations (ME)\, and The Strand Theatre (ME). Sara is the Founder/Director of Surala Consulting\, a fundraising consultancy helping non-profits and artists build and execute fundraising strategies. She was awarded the Arts Management Award from Brooklyn Arts Exchange in 2013\, and has been an advisor to the grantees of The Boston Foundation’s Live Arts and Next Step Programs. @sarajulimoves \nTickets Soon\n\nIf you or a guest in your party has accessibility needs for this event\, please contact Joe Juknievich at joe@dancecomplex.org or (617) 547-9363.
URL:https://www.dancecomplex.org/event/intersection-of-movement-text/
LOCATION:Studio 7
CATEGORIES:DC Events,Workshops
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