ETD FALL FORWARD
DANCE WORKSHOP
ETD Fall Forward Dance Workshop 2023
Saturday, September 30, 2023,
&
Sunday, October 1, 2023,
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Gibney: Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center
280 Broadway (entrance at 53A Chambers St.)
REGISTRATIONS ARE NOW OPEN
DEADLINE SEPTEMBER 23, 2023
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
The ETD & Guest Arts Residency will feature internationally renowned guest artists and practitioners.
Conversations Under the Tree, ‘The Drawing of Fears,’ will help young performers discover more profound internal insight tactics for meaningful movement generation & implementation.
Introduction to miraculous ancient Breath Coach Practices specifically designed to calm nerves, to stay grounded before auditions, and performances to manage daily stress.
Learn ETD Repertory from Factory|Refractory
The Business of Dance with Dancer and Tony-Award-winning Producer Fran Kirmser
ETD’s mission is to provide diverse community arts programming, scholarships, & accessibility for young and mid-career Dancers and Performers regardless of gender, background, sexual orientation & training. All levels are welcome.
“I learned a lot about the importance of breath work from Karen Hakobian and the power of our voices and vibrations (definitely will be continuing to practice when I feel anxious. I LOVED learning the Factory/Refractory phrases from Sashlie and Taylor because they each had very different teaching styles yet they still made everything look and feel cohesive. Learning the Adagio was probably my favorite especially when we (the dancers and I) did it facing each other and in all different directions, it helped with eye contact and made me feel a lot more connected to the dancers. Finally, I loved learned the business side of dance from Fran Kirmser! It taught me so much and gave me more insight into my current exploration with dance.”
TAKE A LOOK INSIDE THE WORKSHOP
“My favorite part of the workshop was creating movement from our drawings/memories. I did similar work in college and I really enjoyed practicing these skills and learning something new.
Including the different art forms into the process of choreographing is a great way to further articulate and develop our thoughts/visions.”
“I loved the difference in the morning and beginning sessions. There was a diversity in intention and style that allowed to be better understand what the company stands for. I think starting with breathe allowed me to reset and clear my head for the abundance of information to come.”
COURSE OFFERINGS
Improvisation & Composition
with ETD Artistic Director Eryc Taylor
MASTER CLASS
Explore new ways of exploring and generating movement.
Eryc Taylor (Artistic Director) is the Artistic Director of the NYC-based nonprofit dance company Eryc Taylor Dance, its community outreach program, ETD Outreach, and the New Choreographer Grant program for emerging choreographers. Taylor holds an MFA in Dance from NYU Tisch and has been creating and touring work in NYC, nationally and internationally since 1995 and 2006 with ETD. He has received grants, awards, and government support from NYSCA, LMCC, SVOG, and Dance/NYC. Highlights include ETD tours in Mexico (2016 & 2017) and South Korea (2019); ETD's EARTH (2019), featured on the PBS ALL ARTS series "Climate Artists"; ETD's dance film, Uncharted Territory (2020), receiving critical praise, awards, and several film festivals; Factory/Refractory (2022) a critically acclaimed site-specific immersive dance production inspired by 1990s nightlife presented at SLATE NY for 2022 and 2023 residencies.
THE BUSINESS OF DANCE
with Dancer & Tony Award-Winning Producer Fran Kirmser
MASTER CLASS
Position yourself to get hired. Learn how to do the following in this one-hour-plus Q&A seminar:
Create your digital Resume, Headshot, Reel, Website, and social media presence with up-to-the-minute tips.
Communicate with Industry Professionals and ask for what you want!
Build your Database of Networking and Resources Lists with who is currently hiring.
The Business of Dance has been taught at NYU Tisch Dance, Steps on Broadway, Martha Graham School, Ailey/Fordham, Peridance, The New School, Columbia University, University of Michigan, Wayne State, Kennison State, Cal State, University of Kansas, K-State, University of Indiana NY Stage and Film, BAAD, Adelphi University, Ohio State, Elon, Chapman, Johns Hopkins, Shenandoah University, Pace University and University of Hawaii, Berkley College MA, James Madison University among others.
CONVERSATIONS UNDER THE TREE ‘THE DRAWING OF FEARS’
with Karen Hakobian
MASTER CLASS
The Drawing of Fears will open the workshop. This technique aims to create and implement our fearless zones into the improvisation and composition portion of the workshop.
Karen Hakobian is an artist, musician, and researcher based in Yerevan and New York City. His innovative approach to `body as a recorder` was implemented in the "Speaking to one Another" project of oral history Armenia-Turkey and included in the "Moush, Sweet Moush" book published in Germany. His "Conversations Under the Tree" series are experimental strategies for collective autonomy and the practice of commons. His artistic practice includes workshops and laboratory with Butoh Master Min Tanaka, the Contemporary Dance Festival in Budapest, Utrecht Art Academy, Summer School of Performing Arts in Sofia, and choreographer Aida Amirkhanyan. Since 2011, he has been collaborating with Paris-based Vahram Zaryan Theater Company, conceptualizing body, gesture, movement, and sound practices in the context of exile and identity. Their "Mater Replic" and "La Tête en bas" productions were in several Paris and NYC theaters. He was recently featured in the NYC-based play Baudelaire Passion and continues collaborating on Master Classes and ETDO workshops with Eryc Taylor Dance.
COMPANY CLASS + FACTORY|REFRACTORY REPERTORY
with Sashalie Rios & Taylor Ennen
MASTER CLASS
Get an inside look at ETD company class and repertory from Factory|Refractory: a multi-media, multi-sensory dance tribute to New York City and the artists who defined its nightlife in the mid-1990s, premiered November 2022.
Sashalie Rios was born and raised in Miami, FL, where she received her BFA in dance at New World School of the Arts College. While earning her degree, she trained in various movement styles at intensives with Paul Taylor American Modern Dance, San Francisco Conservatory, and Mark Morris Dance Group. She has since worked professionally with Daniel Flores and freelanced with Mari Meade Dance Collective in France.
Taylor Ennen is a dancer, performance artist, and improviser originally from Ohio. She earned a BFA summa cum laude with an Honors Medallion from Florida State University's School of Dance. Taylor has had additional training from the San Francisco Conservatory of Dance, the Academié American de Danse de Paris, and B12. Taylor regularly collaborates with Danse Theatre Surreality, The Equus Projects, and Eryc Taylor Dance. She has performed in films by Sarah Elgart and Jee Eun Ahn. She has had the privilege of dancing in works by Robert Moses, Ohad Naharin, Alex Ketley,
“I had a great time and felt that I got a good sense of how the company works, so thank you!!”