Dancing Magic Together avec Keith Hennessy
En collaboration avec le Conseil de la culture et Studio 303, cet atelier s’adresse à tout·e artiste ayant envie de repousser ses limites physiques.
A five-class series exploring the poetics, politics, and potentials of creating a shared world by dancing together. Working mostly in duets but also solo, trio, group, we enter a laboratory of making and unmaking. We will dance more than talk supported by ritual technologies of divination, ancestors, elements, care, and prayer. We’ll consider the symbolic and metaphoric aspects of dancing together as well as the real intimacy of what is happening right here and now. Engaging decolonial and queer-feminist practices of consent and collaboration this will be a futurist laboratory that knows that another world is possible and it will be improvised.
Magic involves poetic and embodied action in a ritualized context to influence both consciousness and material realities. The pretend influences the real. Working with dancing, somatics, tarot, and spell crafting we will create a laboratory of activist magic. We’ll include indigenous land acknowledgement as a necessary act of healing, education, and respect. How can bodies and imaginations be decolonized and healed? How can dancing respond to anxiety and trauma? What are the potentials and pitfalls of wicca on colonized land? How do we develop tools for non verbal and improvised negotiations of consent and collaboration? All this while deepening the desire to move; to feel and learn and express through dancing.
The class will draw on Keith’s ongoing work including dancing objects, fake healing, negotiating power, while prioritizing intuitive and embodied responses to political crises.
KEITH HENNESSY
Keith Hennessy danse à l’intérieur comme à l’extérieur de la performance. Né à Sudbury (Ontario), il travaille à San Francisco depuis 1982 et fait ses tournées à l’international. Ses performances impliquent improvisation, rituel, collaboration et action du public comme outils pour questionner des réalités politiques. Ses pratiques s’inspirent de l’anarchisme, la critique de l’identité blanche, la danse post-moderne, l’art activiste, la Bay Area, le wicca, le punk, le contact-improvisation et le féminisme queer motive et mobilise son travail. Ses collaborations en 2016-17 incluent Peaches, Meg Stuart, Scott Wells, Jassem Hindi, J Jha, Annie Danger, Gerald Cassel, et les collaboratives Blank Map et Turbulence. Il a enseigné récemment dans des universités, des studios indépendants et des festivals incluant Ponderosa (Allemagne), FRESH (SF), HZT (Berlin), Movement Research (NYC), Impulstanz (Vienne), Portland State University, Sandberg Institute (Amsterdam), St. Mary’s, VAC Foundation (Moscou), et Warsaw Flow International CI Festival. Il a reçu des prix de Guggenheim Fellowship, United States Artist Fellowship, NY Bessie, plusieurs Isadora Duncan Awards, et un Bay Area Goldie. Ses écrits ont été publiés dans Contact Quarterly, Movement Research Journal, Performance Research (RU), Society of Dance History Scholars Journal, Dance Theatre Journal (RU), Itch, Front et In Dance. Keith Hennessy dirige Keith Hennessy/Circo Zero et était membre de Contraband avec Sara Shelton Mann. Keith Hennessy est co-foundateur de CounterPulse (formellement 848 Community Space) un espace florissant pour la performance à San Francisco. Keith Hennessy a obtenu une maîtrise et un PhD de l’UC Davis.
