Photo by Shana Crawford.
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Thurs, April 7, 2022 | 12:00–1:30 P.M.
Thurs, April 14, 2022 | 12:00–1:30 P.M.
Thurs, April 21, 2022 | 12:00–1:30 P.M.
Co-facilitated by CPR 2022 Artist-in-Residence Jessie Young and collaborator Shana Crawford, Conditions of Light in Space is a three-part workshop series co-presented with CPR exploring the visibility, scale, texture, and mood of space. During the workshop participants will be invited to use hand-constructed lighting objects that create new environments to move and dance inside of. Each workshop begins with a warm-up, then follows with generative prompts, and concludes in an open group improvisation. Young and Crawford aim to facilitate a space where new discoveries and strategies to engage with light and movement can emerge.
Conditions of Light in Space requires no prior dance or lighting experience. The workshop will unfold as a series, and participation in all three dates is encouraged, while participation in one or two will also be fruitful. Feel free to bring your own lighting objects such as flashlights, clamps, etc.
Jessie Young is a Brooklyn-based choreographer, performer, and teacher originally from Port Angeles, WA. Young crafts choreography as a poetic provocation, viewing dance as a form that must constantly redefine itself in relation to shifting sensorial, emotional, political, and cultural circumstances. jessie-young.com
Shana Crawford entangles herself in dance and performance across New York City as a dance artist, lighting designer, production manager and educator. Her work in all forms create structures for acts of togetherness and celebration. She collaborates with Jessie Young, Juliana May, Jaamil Olawale Kosoko, Laurie Berg, Madeline Best, Stephanie Acosta, and Yanan Yu, among others. She has worked with Body Cartography, danceBARN and Hyp-ACCESS, and was a guest teaching artist with Young Dance’s 20-21 season. She is one of the co-organizers with AUNTS, a roving platform for dance, ran two years of the River to River Festival with LMCC and continues to produce events alongside her role as TD at the Chocolate Factory Theater. Her visual work has been presented with Melanie Maar’s line death dance newsletter, at the Minneapolis Institute of Art and with ANTE mag’s Home Room group shows. Shana teaches dance, creative movement, improvisation and choreography, and studied alt. pedagogies in mathematics at BSME in Budapest, Hu. Shana has a degree in dance and mathematics from Bennington College and is getting her MS in Public Education at the Bank Street School. Shana orchestrates the Sometimes Together group and her work has been shared in NYC, MN, VT, HA, PA, MA, Italy and Spain.
Important note about visiting CPR:
CPR requires all visitors, artists, and staff to provide documentation of full vaccination against Covid-19 as well as a vaccine booster (if eligible), along with a photo ID, to enter CPR. For more information about booster eligibility, please visit the CDC's website. Masks must also be worn at all times inside CPR.