[ gaga & gender ] Keren Rosenberg

SCHEDULE:

Sat/Sun, Feb 17/18

12-1:15pm | Gaga

1:15pm-4pm | Gender & Choreography

W-Fri, Feb 21-23

6-7:15pm | Gaga

7:15-9pm | Gender & Choreography

Sat, Feb 24

12-1:15pm | Gaga

1:15pm-4pm | Gender & Choreography

4pm | Bodyland Showing & Shindig

LOCATION:

University of Texas at Austin

Winship Building, studio 2.116

300 E 23rd St, Austin, TX 78712

TUITION:

// Full Workshop: $225

// Day Workshop: $50

// Drop-in: $20

*pay online or via check to AM Arts (6218 Hillston Drive, Austin, TX 78745)

*by donation for current UT staff/students!

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WORK/STUDY SCHOLARSHIPS:

Email Lillie Burgess at finance@amarts.org to apply for financial assistance.

KEREN ROSENBERG:

Keren is a choreographer, Dancer and Certified Gaga teacher based in Amsterdam The Netherlands. She studied in The Jerusalem Dance Academy and in The Academy of the Kibbutz dance Company from which she continued to dance for several high-profile Israeli companies, among which are Idan Sharabi & Dancers (NDT/Batsheva), Ido Tadmor Dance Company (Israeli Ballet/Batsheva), Fresco Dance Company and Tami Dance Company. She is the recipient of Keren Sharet award for young and promising dancers (IL).

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Keren’s works were presented in the Reykjavik dance festival, Machol Acher Festival, Tel –Aviv, Dublin Fringe festival, Museum of modern art Dublin, solo@the sea festival Den Haag, Vondelpark openlucht theater Amsterdam, Dansmakers, Melkweg, Trouw Amsterdam as well as in theaters and venues in Mexico city, Israel, The Netherlands Ireland, Italy.

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Her work Body-House was Produced by Dansataliers, Rotterdam as a part of one night’s dance. Subsequently invited to perform in Korzo Theater, Den Haag, Dansmakers Amsterdam as well as in Vondelpark openlucttheater. She is presently collaborating with a Swedish based choreographer Graham Adey on new work called Gender Fu**[er] that premiered in the autumn of 2016 in Sweden and Holland produced by Production house In-discourse Malmo and highly acclaimed reviews from Sadler's Wells.

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In 2011 she was invited by Ohad Naharin to study the Gaga movement language and become a certified teacher. Since then She has been invited to teach Gaga and her Choreographic practice in the highest Professional institution and dance Companies such as: Scapino Ballet (NL), Skanes dance Theater (SE), Oldenburg dance company (DE), Henny Jurriens Stichting (NL), Dansateliers (NL), Codarts Dance Academy (NL) Fontys Academy(NL), CDSH Dance Academy (DE) La Cantera , (MX), CCNG Grenoble(F), DAF (IT), Dance-Base Edinbrough and many more.

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SCHOLARSHIP CAMPAIGN:

TBX has given more than $13,000 in scholarships. Please consider sharing our story and giving the gift of dance. All donations are tax-deductible and will be matched dollar per dollar!

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GENDER & CHOREOGRAPHY TOOLBOX:

Throughout this exchange, we are looking to stir discussions around gender politics and the relevance it has within contemporary societies. We will experiment with the practice of transformation: How can the voice and body metamorphosis? What is the impact that these actions hold towards the space and towards the observer? We will be practicing the use of energy as a mean to generate tension between bodies, mapping areas where the sense of presence and connection between the exterior and interior autonomy happens. Working with scales of energy, morphing as a means to play with intention, directions and statements.

For inspiration and fun, we will be working with popular cultural musical references and counter references from Heavy metal, Punk, Techno, Country, and Rap while synthesizing physicality through the social gaze of advertising in the contemporary commercial landscape.

*Participants are invited to bring clothes, make-up and small objects that make them feel their outermost selves, feel free to elevate with this suggestion, we are curious to see what you've got...

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