Foundations to Form
- Date:
- Mon 10 Mar 2025 - Tue 11 Mar 2025
- Time:
- 12:30 - 17:30
- Please Note:
- Strictly no shoes in studios. Shoe coverings available from reception.
- Venue:
- DanceHouse
- Admission:
- Two-Day Intensive: €55 Members / €45 Non-members
- Teacher:
- Anneke Hansen & Jason Parsons
Sometimes we feel a gap between our experience training as dancers, and the experience of dancing freely. How do preparation and technique make free, full, expressive available, enjoyable, and sustainable? How can we locate expansiveness in our technical efforts?
This two-day intensive, for the advanced dance artist, is designed to bridge the gap between the foundations that allow us to explore movement freely, the forms which shape our dancing, and the freedom of dancing itself.
Scheduled breaks are included each day. The admission cost covers participation for both days.
ABOUT Anneke Hansen
Anneke Hansen is a dance teacher, a choreographer and performer, and an events curator. Movement is her medium and her joy is making things move well: human bodies mostly, but also ideas that cross the divides of discipline, perspective, and experience.
Her dance classes fuse technique with anatomical science, building balanced, functional strength and mobility while giving dancers insight into their unique bodies and needs. She served for many years as assistant to master anatomist and neuromuscular educator Irene Dowd. She is regular guest faculty at some of North America’s top studios and programs. She takes pride in helping pre-professional and professional dancers meet the challenges of their art with strength, joy, and humor.
As a choreographer, Anneke’s work has been presented at numerous venues in New York City, such as The Chocolate Factory Theater, University Settlement, Irondale Theater, and Draftworks @ Danspace Project, as well as nationally and internationally. She has been international guest artist-in-residence at Dance House in Dublin, Ireland, and Universidad de las Americas in Puebla, Mexico. Her company Anneke Hansen Dance has received critical praise in the press and funding from LMCC’s Manhattan Community Arts Fund, NYFA’s BUILD grant, and the Puffin Foundation, among others.
As a performer, Anneke has had the pleasure of working with New York choreographers Sara Rudner and Susan Rethorst, and for the Australia-based Russell Dumas, among others.
Since 2017, Anneke has developed an events based salon project, First Person Plural, which brings thinkers of diverse backgrounds together to move beyond disciplinary boundaries and create conversations about topics that move our lives, including AI, Embodiment, and Intelligence; Borders, Belonging, and Citizenship; and Conceptualizing Pleasure.
ABOUT Jason Parsons
Jason Parsons is a New York based movement artist, choreographer and teacher. Known for his constant pursuit of movement innovation and structural integration, Jason's creative work is continually evolving and modernizing contemporary dance.
Jason Parsons started his career as a performer honing is skills in companies such as River North Dance Company, Mia Michaels R.A.W, Dinyos Dance Company (Japan), and the POZ Dance Theater (South Korea). He has also worked as a commercial dancer for brands and artists such as Sony, BMW, DaeWoo, General Motors, Diana King, SWV, and Celine Dion. Although more focused on his choreography and teaching these days, Jason is still is a valued and talented performing artist work with artists such as Stacey Tookey and Travis wall. Most recently, he took part in Tate McRae's music video, "She's All I Wanna Be".
Jason has always been a celebrated contemporary choreographer and has created work for SALT 2, Rasta Thomas's Bad Boys of Dance, Willow Oak Contemporary Ballet, Odyssey, HoustonMet and the Evolution Dance Company. Internationally his work has been performed at the Gwang Ju Biennale Festival (South Korea), Baudelaire (Japan), Artedanza (Italy), Nokia Awards (Czech Rep.), Minjockchoom Cultural Festival (South Korea), Puglia Danza (Italy) and the Seoul Contemporary Jazz Dance Festival (South Korea). Jason has also collaborated with Italian Artist Elena Parisi to create a moving installation for her premiere exhibition in Milan, Italy.
Since February 2008, Jason has been creating and premiering full length concert works for himself and his troupe of dancers. They have performed in New York City at the Joyce Theater, Cedar Lake Theater, Peridance's Salvatore Capezio Theater, Dixon Place, Manhattan Movement and Art Center, Alvin Ailey and for APAP at Carnegie Hall.
In July 2015, Jason premiered a twenty five minute collaboration dance work with choreographer Lauren Adams at Dancepalooza25 LIVE in Long Beach, CA. He has created two original works titled "Eyes Swallow As You Take Me In" and "I Hear Your Colors" for Toes for Dance (Toronto Outreach and Exchange Strategy) Canadian 2015/2016 tour. In May 2016, he created a new work entitled "My Mouth, Your Whisper" which premiered at The Diavolo Space in Los Angeles.
Jason is beloved and sought after teacher who has helped to educate and mentor numerous dancers in their youth that have gone to perform with some of the top dance companies in the world. He is currently on faculty with Nuvo Dance Convention and has also taught at Steps on Broadway, Peridance and Broadway Dance Center in New York City. As a guest teacher he has taught throughout the U.S., Canada, Netherlands, England, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Costa Rica, Cypress and the Czech Republic.
Booking
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