A weekend of integrated learning featuring an improvisation LAB, Countertechnique® classes, and collaborative creative processes. Participants will cultivate and refine skills for risk-taking in performance.
5/24, 7 to 9pm @ Goodyear Arts (301 Camp Road #200. Charlotte NC, 28206)
5/25, 12:30 to 5:30pm @ Open Door Studios (3706 Central Ave. Charlotte NC, 28206)
5/26, 9am to 1pm @ Open Door Studios
Questions: mullise@queens.edu.
Joy Davis is a dance advocate, artist, educator, and mother steeped in the practices of Countertechnique®, improvisation, and performance. As a Senior Countertechnique® Teacher, and with an MFA in Choreography & Performance, she is a teaching artist invested in cultivating transferable skills and embodied thinking. Joy has been on faculty at Boston Conservatory at Berklee since 2016, recently piloting an online Career Development course; she is also a Visiting Assistant Professor of Dance at Davidson College. Since 2006, her choreographic work as joyproject has been commissioned & presented by dance companies, individual artists and college programs around the US, and she performs worldwide with various projects and collaborators, including The Davis Sisters, Payne Dance, and Eric Mullis. Joy is a collective member of Goodyear Arts and a recipient of the NC Choreographers Residency Project.
Eric Mullis is a dance artist and scholar whose work centers on possibilities of interdisciplinary performance. His choreography has been featured in the North Carolina Dance Festival, the Fact/SF Summer Dance Festival, the Breaking Ground Festival, at UrBANGUILD Kyoto, and at Performance Philosophy, Amsterdam. He is a Fulbright Scholar who, in 2021, conducted research on dance and the philosophy of technology at Taipei National University of the Arts in Taipei, Taiwan. Eric has authored of two books, "Pragmatist Philosophy and Dance: Interdisciplinary Research in the American South" (Palgrave MacMillan: 2019) and "Instruments of Embodiment: Costuming in Contemporary Dance" (Routledge: 2022). He is the Director of Goodyear Arts (an artist-run gallery and performance space in Charlotte, North Carolina) and is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Queens University of Charlotte. For more see: http://www.ericmullis8.com | @ericmullis8
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