Image Description: Lime green text over a purple dotted background reads, “Poetic Entry, freeskewl x Dancewave workshop series.” Underneath, in black text reads, “Sunday evenings on Zoom and In Person, March 13 // Jasmine Hearn, April 3 // Shannon Murphy, May 22 // Pam Pietro, June 12 // Jennifer Nugent & Lisa Race.” In the top right side of the page is a navy blue freeskewl logo (an open circle with two arrows at each end.) The bottom of the page is navy blue with a Dancewave logo in the left corner (multicolored swatches in a circular pattern) and in light purple text, the words, “Dancewave, transforming lives through dance.” In the middle of the navy blue bottom, in light purple text reads, “www.freeskewl.com.” In the far right corner is a lime green freeskewl logo (an open circle with two arrows at each end.” Design by Lindsey Jennings.

freeskewl x Dancewave Pedagogy/Poetic Entry Workshop Series

This four month workshop series, curated and initiated by Jennifer Nugent, is an extension of Pedagogy/Poetic Entry which began as an online teaching artist talk platform at freeskewl. These workshops propose that experience and insight pass through each of us in multiple directions, that the shared space is permeable, and engaging in physical and verbal dialogue is one of reciprocity within oneself and towards each other.

​All upcoming freeskewl events are hybrid. You can attend these workshops in person at Dancewave (Brooklyn, NY // Lenapehoking) or on Zoom.
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Classes are once a month on Sunday evenings (ET). Browse workshop descriptions, artist bios + registration below.

March 13th at 6-9pm ET: JASMINE HEARN

April 3rd at 6-9pm ET: SHANNON MURPHY

May 22nd at 6:30-9pm: PAMELA PIETRO

June 12th at 6-9pm: JENNIFER NUGENT & LISA RACE

​​​COST (SLIDING SCALE):
Unemployed/Under-employed: $12-22
Employed: $22-45
Artist Supporter: $46-70

COVID SAFETY PROTOCOLS (for in-person participation):
Masks required. Proof of full vaccination (including booster) required. You may not attend in person if you have had a COVID exposure, COVID symptoms, or tested COVID-positive in the past ten days. NOTE: Jennifer Nugent and Lisa Race's workshop on June 12th will involve touch.

ACCESSIBILITY:
In-Person Option (Dancewave): Dancewave is a 1,400 sq foot studio is a fully ADA compliant and LEED-gold certified facility with a marley floor. The entrance to the building, studio, and bathrooms are all at ground level. Bathrooms are wheelchair accessible and gender neutral. Braille is available on all facilities signage. Wheelchair accessible entrance and pop up table for front desk check in .
Zoom Option: Rev Live Captions, which are computer automated CCs, are provided.
Email freeskewlteam@gmail.com with you accessibility needs. NOTE: We need 14 days notice to provide ASL Interpretation.

LOCATION/DIRECTIONS:
Dancewave Center is located at 182 4th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11217

Nearby Public Transit Options:
D, N, R, W at Union Station (.1 mile away)
B, D, N, Q, R, 2, 3, 4, 5 at Atlantic Av-Barclays Ctr (accessible station, .5 mile away)
F, G at Bergen St (.9 mile away)
B43 ​at Dean St & 4th Ave (.3 mile away)

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2020-2021 Conversations: Schedule and Recordings

​Past conversations:
September 10, 2020 - d. Sabela grimes
October 8, 2020 - Kendra Portier & Jasmine Hearn
October 22, 2020 - Abby Zbikowski
November 12, 2020 - Shannon Murphy
December 10, 2020 - Anya Cloud & Jesse Zaritt
March 11, 2021 - Mx. Oops
April 1, 2021 - Paul Singh
April 8, 2021 - Hyp-ACCESS
April 29, 2021 - Lisa Nelson
May 13, 2021 - Cynthia Oliver

Jennifer Nugent (series initiator) on the Pedagogy/Poetic Entry series:
Poetic Entry is a monthly series I initiated in the early months of the pandemic as a way to connect with teaching artists who amplify the importance of pedagogical thought and discourse. The project of Poetic Entry is to synthesize embodied practices with research practices and create an interdisciplinary atmosphere that emboldens and questions what it means to be teaching now. Participants attending the event become that evening's collective. Together we mine for new and/or re-imagined teaching methods and research.

Within this intimate engagement, invited artists share considerations and fantasies towards creating dancing spaces that exceed themselves, where the dance class becomes personal practice, a place to encounter each other, and build physical structures for empathy. This project tries to define care and asks what is felt in the building of access and understanding of care. How do we talk of the intangible, the felt? How do we filter any of this in the dance class and how must it be generated by the teacher, the professor, the guide, and each other to increase awareness, perception, and humanity inside pedagogical exchanges? The evenings prioritize the understanding of movement and dancing desires cellularly, theoretically, and humanly. Thereby, prioritizing how we care for and learn from each other, we begin to challenge the perceptions of our own practices.  

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Read about September talk with d. Sabela grimes on Contact Quarterly Rolling Edition  READ HERE >>> 

See Jennifer Nugent's writing on the series and more in the Gibney Dance Journal  READ HERE >>> ​

Watch the talk with d. Sabela grimes  WATCH HERE >>>  

Watch the talk with Kendra Portier and Jasmine Hearn  WATCH HERE >>>

Watch the talk with Abby Zbikowski  WATCH HERE >>>