Image Description: Netta teaches class in a black shirt and orange pants. Photo Courtesy of Bates Dance Festival.
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Somatics/Preparations with Netta YerushalmySaturday, March 27 at 11am-12pm EDT
*Join Netta Yerushalmy in conversation with Ishmael Houston-Jones, Anya Cloud, and Kristanne Salcines on Friday, March 26 at 6pm EDT ABOUT THE CLASS: An hour spent awakening our body as a site for articulation, imaginintion, sensations, intellectualization, emotion, mass, and form. In a loosely structured sequence of prompts, we'll warm-up our attention and intention, and embody our minds and spirits. ABOUT THE ARTIST: Netta Yerushalmy is a dance artist based in NYC. Her work aims to engage with audiences by imparting the sensation of things as they are perceived, not as they are known, and to challenge how meaning is attributed and constructed. Yerushalmy was awarded fellowships from Guggenheim, Princeton University, Bogliasco, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, National Dance Project, LMCC’s Extended Life, and New York Foundation for the Arts. She was a Research Fellow at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, and at the Center for Ballet and the Arts. Her work was presented by venues such as ADF, Jacob’s Pillow, Joyce Theater, Danspace Project, Wexner Center for the Arts. Netta performed with Pam Tanowitz Dance, Doug Varone and Dancers. www.nettay.com |
