International Dance Dialogues (IDD)
Created and Curated by Janet Panetta
International Dance Dialogues (IDD) is a program designed to address the need for New York's developing dance artists to have meaningful interchange with their counterparts and potential mentors from Eastern and Western Europe. While New York artists are able to see the performances of larger companies like Pina Bausch's Tanztheater Wuppertal, our artists are rarely able to interact with the creators and performers from these companies in an intimate setting. In addition, lesser-known yet prize-winning and critically-acclaimed European artists do not come to New York to perform due to lack of name recognition, funding and suitable venues; again, access to these artists is very rare for New York dancers and choreographers. IDD provides a venue where substantive professional exchange and even friendships develop, so that significant and often ongoing connections are created.
IDD classes and workshops are listed below, and are also listed on our classes and workshops calendar and description pages.
CURRENT AND UPCOMING:
Janet Panetta
Ballet for Contemporary Dancers
December 8 - March 30 M,T,Th,F 12-2pm
$17/class (MR Class Cards Not Applicable)
890 Broadway, Gibney Dance Center, Studio 6
Check back for any holiday class changes
As a veteran of the American Ballet Theatre, Janet Panetta also has a broad experience of contemporary dance forms. She has trained dancers in many of the major American companies such as American Ballet Theatre, New York City Ballet, Paul Taylor, Merce Cunningham, Trisha Brown, as well as many European companies such as ROSAS and Pina Bausch. Ms Panetta is also available for private classes and coaching.
Thomas Hauert
January 24-27
Tuesday - Friday, 12:15-2:45pm
Avenue C Studio
Tools for Dance Improvisation
$75 full Workshop, $22 Drop-In
Every joint of our body has its range of movement, there are countless possible combinations. The body contains a great practical knowledge far beyond what the mind is capable of processing, resulting in an ever-changing, fluid sense of orientation that can serve as a sensor for potential movement. Through (group) improvisation with one or more partners, exchanging information through touch, we will take advantage of this phenomenon to create forms, rhythms, movement qualities more sophisticated than our minds could invent.
After training in Rotterdam, Swiss-born Thomas Hauert moved to Belgium where he began his career dancing with Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker. Later collaborations include works with Gonnie Heggen, David Zambrano, and Pierre Droulers. He founded ZOO in Brussels in 1997, since garnering an international reputation for highly inventive choreographic work grounded in improvisation-based processes. As noted by journalist Rosita Boisseau, “His proliferative inventiveness does more than just exercise the imagination: it uncovers a new movement vocabulary, upsets the syntax, refines unpublished grammar rules in order to achieve singularly vivid language.” In addition to being an award-winning choreographer, he is an internationally recognized teacher, conducting workshops around the world, including an ongoing collaboration with P.A.R.T.S. in Brussels. www.zoo-thomashauert.be
PAST WORKSHOPS:
Elizabeth Corbett
September 26 - 30
Monday - Friday
2:00 pm-4:00 pm $75, $18 Drop-In
Gibney Dance Center, Studio 3
Forsythe Improv and Phrase Workshop
Long time Forsythe dancer Elizabeth Corbett guides an exploration into the working methodologies inspired by the creative processes of William Forsythe. In this workshop, dancers explore and develop improvisation approaches and deconstruction of Forsythe's phrase work toward accessing the inner logic and unfolding mechanisms in the work.
Elizabeth Corbett danced with the Joffrey Ballet and the Milwaukee Ballet before she moved to Europe. There, she became a soloist with William Forsythe’s Frankfurt Ballet and danced for over a decade in works including Love Songs, Artifact, In the Middle Somewhat Elevated, Enemy in the Figure, Steptext, Behind the China Dogs and other Forsythe works. Ms. Corbett now teaches ballet, improvisation technologies, and Forsythe repertory internationally. She was Dance Coordinator for Anne Teresa DeKeersmaeker's school of contemporary dance, PARTS, in Brussels from 1999–2005 and danced with Ms. DeKeesmaeker in a Rosas/Impulstanz production called With/For/By. She was choreographic assistant to William Forsythe, Ms. De Keersmaeker and for Robert Wilson in productions for the Paris Opera and Rosas. She has taught classes and workshops for dance companies, festivals and schools around the world including PARTS/Rosas, Impulstanz Vienna, Cullberg Ballet, Paris Opera Ballet, University of the Arts Philadelphia, Panetta Movement Center, Dance Ireland, Dance Platform Istanbul 2010, Ekoda de Dance Tokyo 2010, and she has been an American Dance Festival faculty member since 2006.
Jonathan Burrows
October 31 - November 2
Monday - Wednesday
12:00-3:00pm $75, $30 Drop-In
Avenue C Studio
Writing Dance
SOLD OUT
Choreographer Jonathan Burrows leads a three day workshop investigating choreographic and compositional process, performance and philosophies, questioning how a dance or performance might be made and what it could communicate to somebody watching. Practical work will concentrate on short task-based exercises looking at how to define material and work with time, to hold the attention of an audience and invite them to care what happens next. Sessions will be punctuated also with discussion and viewpoints on other mediums and ways of working, asking all the time what dance can do and what it can't.
Jonathan Burrows danced with the Royal Ballet for 13 years, before leaving to pursue his own choreography. After touring with his own company he decided in 2001 to concentrate on one to one collaborations with other artists, who would share the conception, making, performance and administration of the work. His duets include Weak Dance Strong Questions with Jan Ritsema (2001), Dogheart with Chrysa Parkinson (2009), and five pieces with the composer Matteo Fargion, beginning in 2002 with Both Sitting Duet, followed by The Quiet Dance (2005), Speaking Dance (2006), Cheap Lecture (2009) and The Cow Piece (2009). Burrows and Fargion have now given over 200 performances across 28 countries. In 2002 Burrows received an award from the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts New York, Both Sitting Duet won a 2004 New York ‘Bessie’ and Cheap Lecture was chosen for the 2009 Het Theaterfestival in Belgium. Other high profile commissions include Sylvie Guillem and William Forsythe’s Ballet Frankfurt. Burrows is an associate artist at Kaaitheater Brussels, a visiting member of faculty at P.A.R.T.S Brussels, and Visiting Professor at Royal Holloway, University Of London, Hamburg University and the Free University Berlin. He holds an Honorary Doctorate from Royal Holloway University of London. A Choreographer's Handbook (2010) by Jonathan Burrows is available from Routledge Publishing.
