https://landingspaceproject.org/the-landingspace-project daily 1.0 2021-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f2d6c42e85a754db2e677ee/1599173209612-4P30MNGV7LMTN5Z2UV13/joseph-frank-jDmFoPrp6dI-unsplash.jpg The Landingspace Project - What It Is The Landingspace Project will offer a series of creative workshops and discussions through the fall of 2020. Open to artists with a dance and movement practice, these workshops will facilitate an exploration of some of the more urgent themes faced by creative artists in this moment: escape, landing, fantasy, resistance, abolition, borders. We invite participants to consider both the oppressive structures they are currently working within, and what would happen if those structures were taken away. Following each workshop participants will be able to able to attend a working group to discuss workshop themes, develop projects, and deepen connections with other project artists. Photo by Joseph Frank on Unsplash https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f2d6c42e85a754db2e677ee/1599173388039-V6656QMCYYLPWJWWCB30/khara-woods-6hUR284gLJY-unsplash.jpg The Landingspace Project - How It Works Initially Landingspace will offer a series of creative workshops and discussions through the fall of 2020. Open to artists with a dance and movement practice, these workshops will facilitate an exploration of some of the more urgent themes faced by creative artists in this moment: escape, landing, fantasy, resistance, abolition, borders. We invite participants to consider both the oppressive structures they are currently working within, and what would happen if those structures were taken away. Following each workshop participants will be able to able to attend Fertile Ground workspaces to discuss workshop themes, develop projects, and deepen connections with other project artists. In the spring of 2021, workshop participants are invited to form collaborative working groups to explore self-directed creative processes. Participants might explore dance, or other generative creative modes. Landingspace will train facilitators to lead these working groups, and offer support developing and documenting each group’s project. While there is no requirement to make “a work,” we hope that each group will share their outcomes with other participants, and with a broader audience. Photo by Khara Woods on Unsplash https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f2d6c42e85a754db2e677ee/1599173672537-5A81SVTRSLDGDWEJ7XIG/cristian-newman-tnxRFtXI9dI-unsplash.jpg The Landingspace Project - Who We Are Landingspace is a series of efforts to reimagine our communal and choreographic process through shared creative activity. Led by Crystal Michelle Perkins (OSU) Benny Simon (Ohio University) Fen Kennedy (University of Alabama) and Tammy Sugden Carrasco (SUNY Brockport) this series offers dance and interdisciplinary artists a place to come together, work collaboratively on projects, nurture their skills, and support each other in this moment of ongoing change. Photo by Cristian Newman on Unsplash https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f2d6c42e85a754db2e677ee/1603032643830-6VFGXLV3LGBM5CO2QXAL/IMG-1.JPG The Landingspace Project - #1 Tension, Redirection, and Abolitionist Thinking Is tension something we can push into, and rebound away from? Can tension become a support? What kinds of tension are generative and what kinds of tension demand urgent attention to ease and healing? Where do our identities rub painfully against the friction of our lives, and what does it mean to redirect ourselves into new directions, gradually eroding new pathways over time? Artists exist in a world of systems - institutional systems, systems of oppression and privilege, systems of power. Which systems impede our creative impulses? Which systems pull us in directions we do not want to go? Can we resist, redirect, and make tension our ally in changing or dismantling these systems so that we can thrive? If we approach creative thinking, and social thinking, with the knowledge that the systems around us can - or must - topple, does that change how we see possibility in movement? How does a rich investigation of tension and redirection support a clear articulation of what must be broken down and changed in the world around us? Workshop facilitated by: mayfield brooks Date and Time: Saturday, November 7 / 10:30-12:30 EST Working Group facilitated by: Fen Kennedy Date and Time: Wednesday, November 11 / 18:30-19:30 EST Zoom Information: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82272563861?pwd=OVRoNWtpSVFzcEU1Q3U0QlFpbUFjQT09 Meeting ID: 822 7256 3861 Passcode: tD9GHy Photo by Nicolas J. Harris https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f2d6c42e85a754db2e677ee/1599173974163-RG74T2NX402E9XL2AK4P/jr-korpa-Dm-DXaMx2vY-unsplash.jpg The Landingspace Project - #2 Landing, Reimagining, Value and Validity How do current contexts for choreographic endeavors make way for newly imagined creative spaces, processes, and outcomes? What is important and relevant about re-imagining the creative process and performance at this time? How might evidence of a reimagined creative process appear (or disappear) in the physical work, and to what degree is this relevant? This working group is interested in linking process with purpose, and invites the reflection of and evolution beyond one’s familiar choreographic practices to yield new methods of making in the context of Covid-19. This group creates space for rebirth and renewal of one’s creative process, the reimagining of the format and sensation of “performance,” and reflection upon the ways in which the interrogation of creative process permeates into choreographic outcomes. If a “landing” in the creative process suggests a moment of pause in which the makers/collaborators share or receive response about the work, what might be the value of such moments of pause? What does it feel like to be ready to “land”? What does it feel like and mean to be in a creative process that may have no use for landings at all? Ultimately, what is the value of our evolved creative processes in the field and for our work? How is the validity and vitality of the work linked to what occurs in our creative spaces? Workshop facilitated by: Bebe Miller Date and Time: Saturday, December 5 / 10:30-12:30 EST / 10:30-12:30 EST Working Group facilitated by: Tammy Sugden Carrasco Date and Time: Wednesday, December 9 / 18:30-19:30 EST Photo by Jr Korpa on Unsplash https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f2d6c42e85a754db2e677ee/1597240454887-Y1ZXHN5NEY775CA8WUJG/Screen+Shot+2020-08-12+at+9.52.24+AM.png The Landingspace Project - #3 Borders, Boundaries, and Surveillance Dancing in quarantine calls us to confront and reimagine the limits of our creativity. In this time of necessary constraints, we welcome the opportunity to reexamine the social and spatial borders and boundaries that define our identities and roles as artists and citizens. Although borders and boundaries can be exclusionary, they can also act as powerful engines that celebrate difference, kindling productive and creative relationships with each other and our technologically-oriented world. Inside this paradox of bounded freedom is the consensual power to accept or reject new ideas and people, to give and receive critique, and to challenge existing structures of power through art. In this workshop we will consider ways to activate these new social and technological relationships in our newly limited and highly surveilled spaces. How can we redirect our energies in ways that free us from past conceptions of artistic collaboration and training? What new formulations of movement, location, sensation, and accessibility are available to us? What kinds of bodies, platforms, and processes can enable this activation? And how do these activities create healthy and sustainable borders and boundaries? Workshop facilitated by: Jessica Rajko Date and Time: Saturday, January 9 / 10:30-12:30 EST Working Group facilitated by: Benny Simon Date and Time: Wednesday, January 13 / 18:30-19:30 EST Photo by Benny Simon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f2d6c42e85a754db2e677ee/1599173825333-L6M3CWWOQBYDK2B6LOHZ/anthony-cantin-ig-lw0Dtz34-unsplash-2.jpg The Landingspace Project - #4 Escape, Fantasy, and the Blue Sky In this time, is it possible to focus on designing dances that move beyond the confinements of present conversations/expectations, and make room for truly unconfined choreographic invention, with boundless bodies, and borderless conceptual practices? Can we operate as if we have made it to our “promise(d) land(s)” as a way of speeding up arrival? Is there a place to even arrive? Through this work we give more weight to the presence of the body as it is and as it wants to be. As a way to manifest what we imagine, we desire more actionable activities around the work we fantasize about having the freedom to do. WE resist certain modes of being, by responding to the world with possibilities of lightness, serious joy, and dynamic explorations of desire. Blue sky work is for those who dream about escaping pre-designed systems of power through their work. It is for the vibrant embodied structuring of futures, disruptions, and self-directed identities. It encourages all to participate in ways that we have not yet imagined as a field, but that this group might be more equipped to navigate than those who have designed the current systems of power. Workshop facilitated by: Jennifer Harge Date and Time: February 6 / 10:30-12:30 EST Working Group facilitated by: Crystal Michelle Perkins Date and Time: February 10 / 18:30 - 19:30 EST Extended Workshop/Project Building facilitated by: Crystal Michelle Perkins Date and Time: April 10 / 10:00-16:00 Photo by Anthony Cantin on Unsplash https://landingspaceproject.org/register daily 0.75 2020-11-02 https://landingspaceproject.org/who-we-are daily 0.75 2020-10-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f2d6c42e85a754db2e677ee/1600613068783-CVIXFL3MTCVX3V7XIQJG/Crystal+Michelle+%281%29.jpg Who We Are - Crystal Michelle Perkins Assistant Professor, The Ohio State University Associate Artistic Director, Dayton Contemporary Dance Company Crystal Michelle Perkins is a choreographer, teacher and performer who served as the Associate Artistic Director of the internationally renowned Dayton Contemporary Dance Company (DCDC). Previous to her appointment, she was a dancer with DCDC’s professional touring company for nine seasons. She served as resident choreographer, and was charged with maintaining an extensive repertory of masterworks by beloved African American choreographers, including works by Donald Byrd, Donald McKayle and Dianne McIntyre. In 2014, she received the Individual Excellence Award from the Ohio Arts Council and the Josie Award, which recognizes exceptional performance in the art of dance. Ms. Perkins holds a MFA in Dance from The Ohio State University, and a BFA in Dance Performance from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX. She is a member of the Association of Performing Arts Presenters inaugural class of Leadership Fellows, and a member of the OhioDance Board of Trustees. As a choreographer, performer, and researcher she has traveled both nationally and internationally, including to Ougadougou, Burkina Faso where she began The Beautiful Archive Project, an audio archive centered on the perception of black female embodiment in contemporary dance performance. The cornerstone of her choreographic research, the collection operates as the foundation for Boxing Up Beautiful, an intermedia performance investigation of those same ideals. Ms. Perkins has collaborated with the Dayton Philharmonic, Blackbird String Quartet, The University of Dayton’s Department of Music, and the Khalid Moss Jazz Trio. The later created an original composition for her ensemble work entitled Unrested and Unfaithful, which sits in DCDC’s permanent repertoire. The Descent of this Water: Rain (2014), an embodied reflection on the process of migration for people of color in the American south, was commissioned by the Dublin Arts Council as a site-specific collaborative community project. Ms. Perkins has created dance works and taught master classes for Dayton Contemporary Dance Company, Cutno Dance, SMAG Dance Collective, and Stivers School for the Arts Dance Ensemble. She has been a guest artist for the New Orleans Ballet Association/NOLA, the Augusta Ballet Company, Compton Dance Theatre and The Moving Architects. Currently she is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Dance at The Ohio State University, where she teaches contemporary movement practice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f2d6c42e85a754db2e677ee/1596993836751-6DTZH50N46KNQPKZHOS7/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-08-09%2Bat%2B12.44.40%2BPM.jpg Who We Are - Fen Kennedy Assistant Professor, University of Alabama Dr Fen Kennedy is an Assistant Professor of Dance at the Universty of Alabama. Their research - creative and theoretical - examines how the various articulations of our social and cultural values, and how those values can be challenged and changed. Kennedy holds a PhD in Dance Studies from the Ohio State university, and prior to joining the faculty at UA they lectured at the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, London. They also served as the rehearsal director for Nutshell Dance Company, and performed with Aegis Live Arts. As an immigrant to the United States, first generation student and transgender/queer advocate, Kennedy is broadly known for their work with social justice and their commitment to inclusive approaches to dance and to the University system. Kennedy's work can be read in Dance Chronicle, The Journal of Dance Education, The Activist History Review, and Politics as Public Art: The Aesthetics of Political Organizing and Social Movements [Forthcoming]. They are an editor for The Activist History Review and the co-editor ofRevolutionary Aesthetics: Making Art in the Face of Political Polarization. Kennedy also maintains the popular dance blog "The Headtail Connection. https://headtailconnection.wordpress.com Kennedy's choreography has most recently been commissioned for The Ohio State University school touring company, C for Courtside Galley TN, and the Alabama Repertory Dance Theatre. In addition to their concert dance work Kennedy teaches, organizes, DJs and dances as part of the social partner dance community. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f2d6c42e85a754db2e677ee/1596993926120-YOMINEEQPAMLTGDGIOJK/Benny-Simon-1.jpg Who We Are - Benny Simon Assistant Professor, Ohio University PhD Candidate, The Ohio State University Benny Simon, MA, is an Assistant Professor of Instruction and Director of the Summer Dance Institute in the School of Dance at Ohio University. He received an MA in Dance Education from New York University and is currently a PhD candidate in Dance Studies at The Ohio State University where his research explores the intersection of dance and technology as a model for imagining sustainable futures. Benny continues a decades-long teaching and choreographic practice and has held faculty and teaching artist positions at Dance Space Center, Dance New Amsterdam, BalletMet, Gibney Dance, The Mark Morris Dance Center, Peridance Capezio Center, The 92nd Street Y, Ecole de Danse de Québec, and at New York University and Brandeis University. His work has been presented at Syracuse University, The Davidson Theatre in Columbus, OH, the Upstart Festival at the Brooklyn Artists Exchange, Triskelion Arts, and most recently at Ohio University’s Templeton-Blackburn Alumni Memorial Auditorium. In addition to his teaching and artistic pursuits, Benny previously served on the board of Dance New Amsterdam and Alexandra Beller/Dances. He has held managerial positions as Senior Vice President of Technology at 360i and Director of Marketing at Gibney Dance. In 2018 he founded the Simon Family Scholarship, which subsidizes the cost of training for emerging dancers and created the DANCE ‘n TELL network. Most recently, Benny presented the paper, “Kissing Drones: Dance Composition in Dronified Spaces” at the Conference for Research on Choreographic Interfaces at Brown University. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f2d6c42e85a754db2e677ee/1599174843588-KKLZTSUXETWB3PFET85A/IMG_5396_edited.JPG Who We Are - Tammy Sugden Carrasco Assistant Professor, SUNY Brockport Tammy Carrasco is a dance artist originally from Chapel Hill, North Carolina and an alumna of Walnut Hill School. She received her BFA in Contemporary Dance from University of North Carolina School of the Arts and her MFA from The Ohio State University (OSU) where she received a University Fellowship. She has studied with Bebe Miller, Susan Rethorst, Jennifer Nugent and Ishmael Houston-Jones, among others. Carrasco worked as School Operations Coordinator at American Dance Festival in Durham, NC. She served as Rehearsal Director, choreographer and performer for the OSU Repertory Company, which she toured to local schools and China. Carrasco is Lead Dance Instructor at North Carolina Governor’s School East at Meredith College. Her work has been presented at Movement Research at Judson Church, Gowanus Art and Production, and Performance Garage, as well as the dance festivals OhioDance and Rochester Fringe 2015. She and her collaborator, Sarah Levitt, are recent recipients of Columbus Dances Fellowship from the Greater Columbus Arts Council. They continue to create work together through long-distance collaborations. Tammy is thrilled to join the dance faculty at SUNY Brockport and make Rochester home. 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