Jennifer Monson
In this workshop we will research individual approaches to composition and form through perceptual experiments with space, time and energy. We will isolate improvisational activities such as making transitions, creating locations, and sustaining energetic states, and other strategies to bring a deeper understanding to our personal and intrinsic improvisational and compositional logics.  From this process we will create small pieces and scores while looking at the potential of dance to actively engage contemporary issues through perception and embodied practice and form.
4-6hrs, Workshop fee 145€, morning class 9:30 am - 1:30 pm, afternoon class 4-5:15 pm

Jennifer Monson is artistic director of iLAND-interdisciplinary Laboratory for Art Nature and Dance.  Her projects SIP(Sustained Immersive Process)watershed, The Mahomet Aquifer Project, iMAP/Ridgewood Reservoir and BIRD BRAIN are based in  the investigation of the relationship between environment and embodied practice. She is currently teaching at the Dance Department at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign as part of an initiative to bring environmental issues to the forefront of the university and the community at large.