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Advance registration strongly encouraged: 773-281-0824 or emott@linkshall.org
Links Hall’s workshops are dedicated to nurturing the
unique creativity of your own expression, through the exploration
and practice of contemporary methods with passionate, intelligent,
and informed artist-instructors.
For more information or to register for any of the following
workshops contact Erica at 773.281.0824 or emott@linkshall.org
Links Hall is located at 3435 N. Sheffield Avenue, Chicago.
CTA Trains/Buses: Red Line to Addison or Belmont, Brown line
to Belmont, Clark Bus to Clark/Newport.
Driving: parking is a challenge, there are meters and residential
codes apply. Pay lots are available up to $20. Please call
us for directions,
suggestions.
Links Hall is a second floor walk-up; there is no elevator
or escalator.
CLASS POLICIES
Classes are usually open to all participants with at least
beginning/intermediate skills in body/mind awareness (such
as those developed through dance, yoga, martial arts, etc.)
Please wear bare feet and comfortable clothing for movement
classes, and arrive at least 5 minutes prior to all classes
to sign in and change. Refunds only in cases of illness or
injury.
Visit the Study
Groups and Jams page for independent dance and movement
classes that occur regularly in the studio.
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In conjunction with Choreographing
Coalitions, these workshops offer insight into the practice of
the artists performing this month.
Darrell Jones
Sissy Vogue Vop
Saturday, February 23, 3-5pm
$20
This workshop will borrow from the aesthetics of voguing to investigate
extreme physicality, “fierceness of attack,” and attitude
as an approach to movement. Exercises derived from the voguing culture
such as dips, twirls, and spins are used to connect poses and postures
in large athletic phrases that express the physical poetics of battling
gracefully.
Gesel Mason
What's Your Problem? Content and Context in Choreography
Saturday, March 8, 1-3pm
$20 ($15 students, unemployed)
How do you create work that speaks to that burning issue yet is
still well crafted, and combine practical choreographic tools with
a passionate point of view? Bring your ideas and burning issues,
your choreographic tools and skills, willingness to experiment and
workshop. All levels of choreographing experience are welcome.
Victoria Marks
Choreographing Democracy: A Workshop In Progress
Saturday, March 15, 12-4pm
$35 ($30 students, unemployed)
In response to the fervor and possibility presented by the upcoming
election, participants will workshop the idea Choreographing
Democracy. If democracy is a particular ideological organization
of bodies, then can't dancing speak to the issues at the core of
democracy? Participants will look at the way notions of authority,
privacy, justice, and responsibility stimulate ideas about bodies
moving together.
Kristen Smiarowski
Dancing the Headlines:
Verbal Imagery and Movement Metaphors
Saturday, March 22, 12-3pm
$30 ($25 students, unemployed)
How can language from news media spark kinesthetic exploration and
the development of meaningful movement vocabularies? For artists
who address socio-political issues in their work, the potential
of movement and language to frame, describe, subvert, and oppose
is vast. Participants will work create, share, and refine short
performative explorations. Open to anyone who uses movement in their
work; bring writing materials.
Denise Uyehara in collaboration
with Peter Carpenter
Collaboration is so Fucking Hard
Saturday, March 29, 12-3pm
$30 ($25 students, unemployed)
How can we take our differences and fascinating intersections and
create engaging work? Participants will explore ensemble work inspired
by community, personal experience, and concerns for the larger world
in which we live, and attempt to create without falling back on
convenient answers to ethnicity, class, and gender issues. Bring
one really tough question that you cannot answer, one object you
don’t mind others handling, and one CD with a music track
you’d like to play.
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