Trisha Brown Technique & Repertory Workshop: Working Title
Workshop
with
Jennifer Payán
In the frame of WinterTanz 2024/25
This workshop facilitated by Jennifer Payán will emphasise and explore the underlying sense of play that Trisha Brown's choreographies interchangeably hold. It will journey through the stages of discovering and awakening a physical readiness that will anchor and encourage the confidence to play with the risk and spontaneity inherent in Trisha Brown’s work.
The morning session will begin with a guided warm up using a combination of yoga, pilates, dance, and improvisation to awaken a full-bodied presence and awareness. Through a series of guided improvisational structures, participants will challenge and connect their brains and bodies through zones of exploration emphasising intentionality, weight, falling, breath, and distal initiation points that will create the foundational language for the repertoire session.
In the afternoon, participants will first learn phrase material from “Working Title”, integrating the morning’s work into the embodiment of Browns’s repertory. The workshop will conclude with small group improvisations that draw from the phrase material and movement methodologies trained, celebrating the learning together.
This workshop takes place in cooperation with the Berliner Festspiele as part of the Performing Arts Season.
The corresponding event ("Glacial Decoy / In the Fall / Working Title") of the Trisha Brown Dance Company will take place from 23 - 25 January 2025 and can be found at the following link ↪ Berliner Festspiele/Program
The morning session will begin with a guided warm up using a combination of yoga, pilates, dance, and improvisation to awaken a full-bodied presence and awareness. Through a series of guided improvisational structures, participants will challenge and connect their brains and bodies through zones of exploration emphasising intentionality, weight, falling, breath, and distal initiation points that will create the foundational language for the repertoire session.
In the afternoon, participants will first learn phrase material from “Working Title”, integrating the morning’s work into the embodiment of Browns’s repertory. The workshop will conclude with small group improvisations that draw from the phrase material and movement methodologies trained, celebrating the learning together.
This workshop takes place in cooperation with the Berliner Festspiele as part of the Performing Arts Season.
The corresponding event ("Glacial Decoy / In the Fall / Working Title") of the Trisha Brown Dance Company will take place from 23 - 25 January 2025 and can be found at the following link ↪ Berliner Festspiele/Program
Jennifer Payán
Jennifer Payán is a New York City based dancer/dance artist, yoga and pilates instructor originally from the Bronx, NY, living in Jersey City, NJ. Upon graduating, Payán performed with Pam Tanowitz Dance, LeeSaar The Company, Netta Yerushalmy, Jasmin Hearn Collaborates, UNA Productions, Company SBB, and most recently Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More. Beyond concert dance work, she has been featured in various film and commercial performances choreographed by Yara Travieso, Warren Adams, Amy Gardner, Bobbi Jene Smith, Solange Knowles, Austin Goodwin, among others. Her passionate work ethic has led her into roles such as Associate Artistic Director for Company SBB and a Dancer Representative for the Trisha Brown Dance Company. Standing in her fourth year with the Trisha Brown Dance Company, Payán dances alongside a dedicated team of artists and reimagines Trisha Brown's legacy forward together with them.
10:00 – 15:00 h (2 h technique, 1 h lunch break and talk, 2 h repertoire)
Level: Amateur
In English
Price: 130 €
Level: Amateur
In English
Price: 130 €
