Spring Quarter Faculty Concert Auditions

  • Tuesday, February 11, 2020
    4:30 PM – 6:30 PM


  • Kaufman Hall 200

FACULTY CONCERT AUDITIONS

Come work with extraordinary choreographers!

Tuesday, Feb 11th (Room: 200)

4:30pm -5:15pm (Grad Students)

AND

5:30pm -6:30pm (Undergrad Students)

Note: Classes/Choreographic process will take place during the Spring Quarter.

This is a 4-unit course. Performances will take place at the end of Spring Quarter.

For more info contact Faculty Producer: Jackie Lopez

Jacklo79@yahoo.com

Guest Faculty Choreographer: Faye Driscoll

Class will take place in the Spring Quarter on:Mondays 10am -2pm & Wednesdays 1pm -12pm

FAYE DRISCOLL is a Bessie Award-winning performance maker who has been hailed as a “startlingly original talent” (Roslyn Sulcas, The New York Times) and “a postmillenium postmodern wild woman” (Deborah Jowitt, The Village Voice). Her work has been presented nationally at the Wexner Center for the Arts, the Walker Art Center, The Institute for Contemporary Art/Boston, MCA/Chicago, to name a few. “I make dances that are mistaken for plays and load-in like installations. Sets are designed to break apart, musical scores are made from performers’ stomps and voices, props are worn, used and reused for fantasy, excess, and loss. Performers sing, fight, frolic and make love in bursts, like rapid fire flip-books of human emotion. Awkward virtuosic bodies teeter on the edge of high art and slapstick. A viewer feels a rollercoaster of joy, outrage, arousal and discomfort while performers hold a frank gaze that says, “You are me and I am you.” Embarrassment and exhilaration live side by side. I aim for an immersive world of sensorial complexity and perceptual disorientation. Through performers’ powerful exposure, heightened proximity, and at times physical connection with the audience, viewers feel their own culpability as co-creators of the performance. My work is a rigorously crafted group experience that comes off as improvised, chaotic and spontaneous.” ~ Faye Driscoll

Guest Faculty Choreographer: Milka Djordjevich

Class will take place in the Spring Quarter on: Mondays & Fridays 2pm -5pm

Milka Djordjevich is a Los Angeles based choreographer whose work draws from a variety of compositional strategies to question preconceived notions of what dance should or should not be. Her work has been shown at many venues, including the Kitchen, the Chocolate Factory Theater, the Whitney Museum, the American Realness Festival, Dance Theater Workshop and Danspace Project in New York; REDCAT, Grand Performances, Pieter, LA Dance Platform, to name a few. Los Angeles-based choreographer Milka Djordjevich is researching and developing a new dance that aims to unravel the history of patriarchal militaristic conditioning of regimented movement and reclaim its manipulation and control of bodies. CORPS examines how gendered labor exists in a combative space of regimentation and how this labor sits across traditional, militaristic, ritualistic, athletic, and folk movement forms. We will create a singular vocabulary compositing collective movement practices such as: marching band, drill team, Balkan dance, karate, ballet and experimental dance forms. Together we will design methodical systems of labor and cooperation, which rally into a procession of collectivity. Moving with a steady urgency, we’ll attempt to translate individual rage and anxiety into collective catharsis. Losing/gaining oneself in a group for the betterment of the whole.

Guest Faculty Choreographer: Lisa Parra

Class will take place in the Spring Quarter on:

Tuesdays & Thursdays 3pm -6pm

Lisa Parra is a choreographer and performer. She is interested in the construction and reconstruction of body image, identity and the effects that ritual, culture and language have on movement and its transformation within dialogues. Her work often includes themes of reality, representation, original, copy, translation and error. To examine these themes and interests, she works with language codes and sound combining movement with audio-visual material. More recently this has been evident in documenting use of language at the US/Mexican borders and in her online work with Portuguese video artist Daniel Pinhiero. Lisa has performed and presented work at Queens Museum, Movement Research Judson Series, Staten Island's LUMEN Festival, Triskelion Arts Center, Green Space and Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center. Internationally, she has presented work in Portugal, Spain and Mexico. Lisa has received support from the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center in Troy, New York, the Centro de Artes Performaticas do Algarve in Portugal, the Media-Lab Prado and Teatro del Canal in Madrid; Bilbao Eszena in Spain, and more recently at Centro para os Asuntos de Arte e Arquitectura in Guimareas, Portugal. Her video installation Body/Traces has been screened in New York, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Japan, Belgium, Italy, Spain and France. In addition, Lisa has performed in the works of Claire Porter, Karen Bernard and Pascal Rambert.