Tag: Improvisation

DITA, Open Improvisation w/Marlee Grace wsg. Fiona Dickinson

December 14, 2018

Join us in welcoming Marlee Grace and Fiona Dickinson
Open Improvisation (all levels, all movers)
Sunday January 27th, 2019
4-5:45 pm
Meijer-Royce Center for Dance
341 Ellsworth Ave SW
Grand Rapids, MI 49503
Pre-registration
$17 Advanced General
$15 Advanced Professional/Dance Educator
$13 Seasonal advanced ($65)
Pre-registration provided by ArtPeers: https://artpeers.org/pre-registration/
Day of Class
$20 Drop-in
For dancers 16+ years old ~ for more information contact Amy Wilson at [email protected]

Open Improvisation
composition and choice making through movement

Join Marlee Grace for a workshop in improvising as a tool for performance, choice making, and composition. We’ll work through solo movement, duets, and group work – playing with space and generosity, spontaneity and thoughtfulness, solitude and togetherness.
We’ll look at different ways to discover your own movement vocabulary as well as collaborate with others

Soundscapes from other planets provided by Fiona Dickinson 

No dance experience required, just a willingness to move your body
No moves to learn! All movement generated from your self

Marlee Grace is a dancer and a writer who uses improvisation as a method for creating new works, hosting artists at her residency and studio CENTER, and being in the world.
Marlee has a BFA in Dance from the University of Michigan and documents her dance practice on the Instagram account @personalpractice which has been featured in the Huffington Post and the New York Times

Fiona Dickinson is a British songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and music educator currently residing in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Along with her work arranging strings for the ambient noise project, Saltbreaker, Fiona has a lengthy list of collaborations on stage and in the studio. She also has a background in composition for independent film and live score for site-specific performance with dance, video, and analog projection.

Pre-registration – New Rates – New Discounts

December 12, 2018

Pre-registration is now open for all of the DITA Master Classes for Winter/Spring 2019 at the Meijer-Royce Center for Dance! All classes can be purchased for a discount in advance. Save your spot and save money!

You can also give the gift of dance to a loved one or friend – just in time for the gift giving season! Our new “Season Pass” is perfect for the dancer/mover in your life!

Stay tuned for more details on each of our guest artists!

Please note – our class with Marlee Grace will feature live music by the lovely Fiona Dickinson and will be open to all movers! Our class with Heather Vaughan-Southard from Educating Dancers will also be open to all movers!

RATES
Pre-registration
$17 Advanced General
$15 Advanced Professional/Dance Educator
$13 Seasonal advanced ($65)

Day of Class
$20 Drop-in

Pre-registration provided by ArtPeers: https://artpeers.org/pre-registration/
For dancers 16+ years old
For more information contact Amy Wilson at [email protected]

DITA Winter/Spring 2019 Master Class Scedule
All classes are held at Meijer-Royce Center for Dance
341 Ellsworth Ave SW
Grand Rapids, MI 49503

January 27th – Marlee Grace wsg. Fiona Dickinson
Open Improvisation – All levels, all bodies
4-5:45pm

February 17th – Lucy Riner/RE Dance Group
Int/Adv Contemporary Modern
4-5:45pm

March 24th – Krisit Faulkner/KFD  
Int/Adv Contemporary Modern
4-5:45pm

April 28th – Heather Vaughan Southard
Movement Based Mindfulness – All levels, all bodies
4-5:45pm

May 19th – TBA
Int/Adv Improvisation, Rep
4-5:45pm

DITA, the practice & the person w/guest artist Marlee Grace

August 28, 2017

Join us in welcoming Marlee Grace to the Annex
wsg. Fiona Dickinson (musical accompaniment)
Tuesday Sept 5th, 6-8pm
Wealthy Theatre Annex
1110 Wealthy St Se
Grand Rapids, MI 49506
$15/$12 students w/ID
All movers ages 16+ welcome

the practice & the person

a workshop on improvising & revealing the complete person

september 5 2017 + wealthy theatre annex grand rapids, mi

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Drawing on themes from the chapter PRACTICE in Free Play by Stephen Nachmanovitch we’ll navigate a series of exercises in ensemble improvisation. Making duets, trios, & group works while honoring the act of practicing as research, as performance, as the thing.

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We will generate solo material from our own bodies, practicing witnessing and being witnessed.

We will slowly combine our solo material into duets, finding ways to stay true to our own work while navigating space with others.

We will transition into ensemble work, trios, quartets, and full group improvisations.

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This workshop is open to all people 16+ years old with a willingness to explore with their bodies

DITA, Improvisation for Performance w/Amy Wilson and F. Dickinson

November 15, 2016

IMG_0011Join DITA Artistic Director Amy Wilson and musician F. Dickinson for an afternoon of live music and guided improvisation in the Annex!

Sunday November 20th
4-5:45pm
Wealthy Theatre Annex
$15/$12 students w/ID
dancers 16+ email [email protected] for more information

This class will explore improvisation, including contact improvisation, for performance in solo and ensemble work. Dancers will explore and create with guided structure, while spontaneously performing inner-directed movement with live musical accompaniment.
All levels and all styles of movers are welcome. fiona

Amy Wilson is the Artistic Director of Dance in the Annex (DITA) – a Grand Rapids based modern dance collective. DITA regularly hosts master classes, produces large-scale concerts, and creates live and dance-film works that are site-specific with an emphasis on process. DITA calls Wealthy Theatre home base but collaborative works regularly take place at GRAM, UICA, Art.Downtown, and SiTE:LAB. She is currently faculty at Michigan Ballet Academy, has served on faculty at GVSU and is guest artist and choreographer at studios and univerisities around West Michigan.

F. Dickinson is an experimental ambient project from noise artist / multi-instrumentalist Fiona Dickinson. Intersecting organic folk instrumentation with slow atmospheric drones and ruminating loops, the sound echos and responds to the space and moment.

DITA, Intro to Compositional Improvisation w/guest artist Marlee Grace

June 12, 2015

Join us in welcoming Marlee Grace to Dance In The Annex!
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Monday June 15th & 22nd
Wealthy Theatre Annex
7-8:45pm
1110 Wealthy St SE
Grand Rapids, MI
All Levels
$15/$12 (students w/ID)
For dancers ages 16+
Contact [email protected] for more information

Join dance maker & improviser Marlee Grace for an evening of movement exploration, open to anyone interested in movement & composition (not just “dancers”).
In this class we will warm into our bodies through a series of exercises calling on all of our senses, we will journal, we will free write, we will dance, and we will make small dances as an ensemble.

We will share our small dances, give each other feedback, and then make more small dances. Dances are small performance works that we will spontaneously create through improvisational tools we will learn in class.
There is no messing up in improvising, but there are ways to create balance and growth in a group ensemble and we will navigate them together.

Marlee Grace is a dance maker, fiber artist, and shop keeper at Have Company in Grand Rapids, MI. She received her BFA in Dance from the University in Michigan in 2010 and regularly studies compositional improvisation with The Architects.