In this class we will awaken our attention, warm up our muscles and our capacity to be curious, and practice techniques for toning our bodies/minds to give and receive weight and energy in motion. We will improvise, we will play, and we will dive into the unknown!
Lilianna Kane is a dancer and chef, currently invested in Contact Improvisation and Collective Improvisation. She is committed to improvisation as a physical practice of asking questions and paying attention. She is curious about the disruption of normative culture through dancing and gathering. She values the interplay of rigor, rest, discipline and play. She teaches and shares her practices nationally and internationally. She is currently the head chef at The Field Center in Bellows Falls, VT, where she also has the privilege of regularly practicing, teaching, and researching Contact Improvisation. Website: www.liliannakane.com
Anna Vomacka is driven by her curiosities and cravings for community, connection, and spaces of shared learning / (un)learning. Perhaps it is through this desire to connect and preserve her childishly-curiosities that Anna found (and stuck with/got stuck to) dance and movement. Anna’s work explores: collective realities, shared intimacy, idiosyncratic differences, physical manifestations of self-imposed & socially imposed labels, power of identity, emergence of community, and recycling of movements, dancers, ideas, waste. Anna graduated from the Ohio State University with a BFA in Dance. While there she worked with Bebe Miller on the creation of two original works. Working extensively with former Trisha Brown dancer, Vicky Shick, Anna performed a recreation of Brown’s “Glacial Decoy” (1979). She was part of Ryan Kelly & Brennan Gerard’s Bessie award winning instillation “Timelining”, which premiered at The Kitchen (2014) and was later shown at the Guggenheim (2015). Anna was the recipient of the Brooklyn Arts Exchange (BAX) Alumni Space Grant in 2019. Also in 2019, Anna performed in Mei Yamanaka’s “If You, Then There”. Anna has been working with Nami Yamamoto since 2017, together they performed at “Troopers Brother” at St. Ann’s Warehouse’s Labapalooza (Puppetry Theater).