10/10/2026
Introducing Community Class teaching artist BANNING BOULDIN / Banning Bouldin New Dialect
This week Banning will be offering
COMMUNAL RESEARCH PRACTICE
10/12
10:35am-12:00pm
@ Morgan Park Community Center
ABOUT THE CLASS:
Communal Research Practice
In this class we’ll think together with our whole bodies—collectively expanding toward unknowns in our shared movement practice. We’ll write, we’ll talk, and we’ll move through various improvisation modalities to generate immediate self portraits, explore nonbinary partnerships, and deconstruct contemporary phrase work to reveal new possibilities. Intermediate and advanced dancers are welcome.
ABOUT BANNING:
Banning Bouldin is a movement artist, educator, nonprofit arts leader, and published scholar with over two decades of international experience. A graduate of the Juilliard School, they are the founder and artistic director of New Dialect, where they have created acclaimed works such as The Triangle and 21 Yeses, in addition to choreographic commissions for Whim W’Him, Gibney Dance Company, Northwest Dance Project, Groundworks Dance Theater, Visceral Dance Chicago, and others. Their works have been presented by Jacob’s Pillow, OZ Arts, Zeitgeist, Art Prize, the Harris Theater, Tennessee Performing Arts Center, Wortham Center, New Works Festival and many others. Banning’s teaching and research explore improvisation, adaptive choreographic structures, and community-driven practices informed by q***r and femme empowerment, interdisciplinary collaboration, and her lived experience with disability.
🔗Check out our complete schedule + rates + other details at the link on our bio
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