Composition with Mary Armentrout at Danspace
Tuesdays, 7:00-9:00pm at Danspace
To Register: Email info@danspace.com
An opportunity for emerging choreographers everywhere!
Session 1: October 1 – December 17, 2024 (11 weeks)
Tuition: $275 cash/check or $286 credit card
Session 2: January 21 – May 13, 2025 (17 weeks)
Tuition: $425 cash/check or $442 credit card
Informal showing at Danspace on Saturday, May 10 Time TBD
Class Description
This class is a combination of class/lab time, independent rehearsal time, and feedback time, with an informal showing in the spring. The fall session is more of a dance creation lab, working on small studies to expand your range and experience in creating successful movement ideas. The spring is more focused on creating a short finished dance work on a topic that interests you, culminating in the showing at the end of the session. You will be guided by instructor Mary Armentrout, an award winning, internationally acclaimed choreographer. This class is open to teens and adults – choreographic experience is not required, but always a plus, interest in learning how we can put movements together to express our inner ideas is what’s needed!
Mary Armentrout is a teacher, choreographer, dancer, and Feldenkrais Practitioner, and the director of the Mary Armentrout Dance Theater (MADT). Starting to dance at age three, she graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in 1985. Working across disciplines, her experimental choreographic works attempt to viscerally engage and complicate aspects of intentionality, presence, identity, and being-in-the-world for her audiences, and recently garnered an Isadora Duncan Dance Award and an EMPAC commission. Her work has been presented at numerous venues all over the San Francisco Bay Area, as well as across the US and the UK, Europe, and China, recently touring to universities across the states and the UK, as well as the Brighton Fringe and the San Francisco International Arts Festival. She has been puzzling over the question of “What is dance” for the last 50+ years, and welcomes others into the conversation.
