Rates of Reaction: an improvisation lab for musicians and dancers
Event Type:
WorkshopMonday, February 8, 2010 7:00pm
The lab will proceed with larger ensemble improvisations, focusing on individual/ensemble phrasing and the concept of "lifespans;" and finish with a full-scale structured improv with multiple sections and all attendees involved.
Whether you're new to improvisation or a seasoned improvising artist, Rates of Reaction promises to be an enriching experience.
• Bob Garrett •
Bob Garrett recently returned from performing as a percussionist for the National Tour of The Lion King. Previously he worked as a freelance musician and producer in Chicago, working with Freddy Jones Band, Anne Harris, Trinity Irish Dancers, and many more. Current projects include Toque Chicago; cuban folkloric music meets deep house, percussionist for Aladdin at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Hard Art Group; composer John Elmquist, and Anne Harris. Bob is also co-creator (with Nadine Lollino) of POSTERCHILD, a multimedia collective combining original music with dance and movement exploration, video installation, and fashion design. POSTERCHILD performs monthly at TEMPLE Gallery, and has previously debuted new works in Hawaii, Denver, and the Fringe Festival in Minnesota (posterchildart.com).
• Lisa Gonzales •
Lisa Gonzales is an independent choreographer and improviser. Interested in the complex array of meanings revealed by bodies moving in relationship to each other and their environment, Gonzales’ work often investigates some aspect of the power and frailty inherent in humanness. She has performed and shown her work in New York at such venues as DTW, Danspace at St. Mark’s Church, Joyce Soho, WAX, Joe’s Pub, John Jay College, Brick Studio, University Settlement and others, as well as in Chicago at The Dance Center of Columbia College, Hamlin Park, Links Hall, as part of the Epiphany Dance Experiment, and in cities across the United States. Internationally, she has presented her work in Taiwan, Russia, Finland, and the Dominican Republic. She works as an independent artist, a commissioned artist, a choreographer in educational settings and as part of a collective of artists called The Architects, of which she is a co-founder (with Katherine Ferrier, Jennifer Kayle and Pamela Vail). The Architects is an improvisational dance company that considers the politics of a collectively organized group teaching collaboratively and making performance work improvisationally and non-hierarchically to be an important and ongoing artistic and social statement. She credits many artists with whom she has worked as being influential to her own art making including Peter Schmitz, Penny Campbell, Susan Sgorbati, Andrea Olsen, Deborah Hay, Angie Hauser, Darrell Jones, Chris Aiken, Paul Matteson, K.J. Holmes, Amy Chavasse, Peter Carpenter, Deana Acheson, her work with the Architects, with improvising musicians Arthur Brooks and Michael Chorney, with puppeteers Dan Hurlin, Chris Green and Erin Ore, and others. Gonzales attended Middlebury College and received her MFA from the Ohio State University. She is full time faculty at Columbia
College, Chicago and summer faculty at the Movement Intensive in Compositional Improvisation which happens annually in June at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, PA.
photo by Ryan Ward Thompson. www.ryanwardthompson.com
Whether you're new to improvisation or a seasoned improvising artist, Rates of Reaction promises to be an enriching experience.
• Bob Garrett •
Bob Garrett recently returned from performing as a percussionist for the National Tour of The Lion King. Previously he worked as a freelance musician and producer in Chicago, working with Freddy Jones Band, Anne Harris, Trinity Irish Dancers, and many more. Current projects include Toque Chicago; cuban folkloric music meets deep house, percussionist for Aladdin at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Hard Art Group; composer John Elmquist, and Anne Harris. Bob is also co-creator (with Nadine Lollino) of POSTERCHILD, a multimedia collective combining original music with dance and movement exploration, video installation, and fashion design. POSTERCHILD performs monthly at TEMPLE Gallery, and has previously debuted new works in Hawaii, Denver, and the Fringe Festival in Minnesota (posterchildart.com).
• Lisa Gonzales •
Lisa Gonzales is an independent choreographer and improviser. Interested in the complex array of meanings revealed by bodies moving in relationship to each other and their environment, Gonzales’ work often investigates some aspect of the power and frailty inherent in humanness. She has performed and shown her work in New York at such venues as DTW, Danspace at St. Mark’s Church, Joyce Soho, WAX, Joe’s Pub, John Jay College, Brick Studio, University Settlement and others, as well as in Chicago at The Dance Center of Columbia College, Hamlin Park, Links Hall, as part of the Epiphany Dance Experiment, and in cities across the United States. Internationally, she has presented her work in Taiwan, Russia, Finland, and the Dominican Republic. She works as an independent artist, a commissioned artist, a choreographer in educational settings and as part of a collective of artists called The Architects, of which she is a co-founder (with Katherine Ferrier, Jennifer Kayle and Pamela Vail). The Architects is an improvisational dance company that considers the politics of a collectively organized group teaching collaboratively and making performance work improvisationally and non-hierarchically to be an important and ongoing artistic and social statement. She credits many artists with whom she has worked as being influential to her own art making including Peter Schmitz, Penny Campbell, Susan Sgorbati, Andrea Olsen, Deborah Hay, Angie Hauser, Darrell Jones, Chris Aiken, Paul Matteson, K.J. Holmes, Amy Chavasse, Peter Carpenter, Deana Acheson, her work with the Architects, with improvising musicians Arthur Brooks and Michael Chorney, with puppeteers Dan Hurlin, Chris Green and Erin Ore, and others. Gonzales attended Middlebury College and received her MFA from the Ohio State University. She is full time faculty at Columbia
College, Chicago and summer faculty at the Movement Intensive in Compositional Improvisation which happens annually in June at Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, PA.
photo by Ryan Ward Thompson. www.ryanwardthompson.com