PADL West

04/01/2022

🦋ATTENTION DANCE ARTISTS + IMPROVISORS OF COLOR🦋

registration for this beautiful event is now open!

RAM JAM with Ryuta Dutah Iwash*ta, Anya Cloud, and Makisig Akin APRIL 14th - 17th is a dreaming and embodying arena for Contact Improvisation fueled by a passion and intuition for queering its ongoing culture of global white supremacy, heteronormativity and the gender binary. This will include co-facilitated jam sessions, open jams, direct offerings/teachings from our individual and collective research/practice and more.

The vision for this event, as proposed by the facilitators, is to have 70% BIPOC participants and 30% white participants.
This vision is reflected in both the staggered registration periods and the pricing [ see website]

Full scholarships are available to Black and Indigenous identified particpants can be applied for HERE www.thefieldcenter.com/ramjam

JOIN US FOR THIS BEAUTY!

09/14/2017

Thank you, you wonderful people who showed up so generously and vigorously for Keith's workshop tonight. Thank you for keeping experimental dance vibrant in San Diego! Love and trust.

09/11/2017

Keith Hennessy says, “My primary teaching/research is on the politics of relationship and how dance practices can be a laboratory for new social relations based on queer-feminist-antiracist-decolonial ethics. I tend to work mostly with duet practices, improvisation, and experimental ritual.”

Keith is teaching in San Diego in two days! Don't miss it!

Keith Hennessy September 15, 2017

09/08/2017

Come dance with Keith Hennessy in San Diego and then a few days later see him perform his solo Bear/Skin! Check out this lovely NYC review of the work. Details: www.padlwest.org

http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/reviews/keith-hennessy/

08/24/2017

Keith Hennessy is coming to San Diego! He will perform his solo Bear/Skin on September 15. He will also teach a community workshop. Workshop details to come soon. Please spread the word!
http://www.padlwest.org/performances.html

Friday, September 15, 7:30pm, ENS 200 Studio Theatre, SDSU $20 General Admission $10 Students Tickets: ...

08/14/2017

Free Feldenkrais tomorrow 9:30-10:30am. Free Underscore with live music by Kris Apple 7-10pm. If you've never done an Underscore and you want to dance tomorrow night you need to come to the talk through 4-5pm. Join us for the last full day of the PADL West Dance Festival 2017!

08/14/2017

Tomorrow morning there is free Feldenkrais 9:30-10:30am. And a free Underscore 7-10pm. If you've never done an Underscore and you want to join please come to the talk through 4-5pm. We look forward to more dancing with you!
www.padlwest.org

08/12/2017

Wow! What an inspiring 1st day of the PADL West Dance Festival! Thank you to the incredible community of people who showed up in all ways today. We can't wait for more! Start the day tomorrow with Feldenkrais 9:30-10:30am (FREE!) and then dance all day! Contact Improvisation Fundamentals class (FREE!) 4:00-6:00pm. There will be a performance experiment in the evening 7:30-8:30pm and then another Contact Improvisation jam. Come dance with us!
http://www.padlwest.org/

08/07/2017

Sara Shelton Mann is coming to San Diego August 11-14! Don't miss the chance to study with this master dance artist:

Sara Shelton Mann has been a choreographer, performer, teacher since 1967. She was a protégé of Alwin Nikolais and Murray Lewis in N.Y.C. before moving to Canada where she met Andrew Harwood and fell in love with contact improvisation. In 1979 she moved to San Francisco CA and started the Company Contraband as a performance group and research ground combining the principles of contact, systems of the body and spiritual practice into a unified system of research.

Among her awards are a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Award, John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, 6 Isadora Duncan Awards, Djerassi Artist in Residence, Headlands Center for the Arts Artist in Residence and SF Bay Guardian Goldie Lifetime Achievement Award.

Her Movement Alchemy training is an ongoing teaching project and is influenced by certifications and studies in the metaphysical and healing traditions.

Sara’s performance work is a platform for collaboration and research in consciousness.

          August 11-15      San Diego, CA

07/20/2017

The PADL West Dance Festival schedule is here! Come dance with us! All classes and events are FREE and drop-in except for Sara's 4-day sliding scale intensive. Email [email protected] to register!

07/16/2017

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