Performance as simply be-ing: a 4-day workshop with David Brick and Jungwoong Kim

Junwoong Kim and David Brick facilitate explorations in the practice of improvisation — attention, availability, yielding, deep listening, slippage and recovery — that erode the distance between “performance” and simply “being.” This workshop will meet four times:

WED JUNE 11, 9:30 AM–1:00 PM
THU JUNE 12, 9:30 AM–1:00 PM
FRI JUNE 13, 9:30 AM–1:00 PM
MON JUNE 16, 9:30 AM–1:00 PM

This workshop is for experienced improvisers from diverse disciplines who are ready to play with the spaciousness of time and tap into their capacity for risk-taking. Participants are asked to commit to all four sessions.

TUITION: $200 for the whole series ($175 earlybird by June 1)

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ABOUT THE FACILITATORS:

David Brick collaborates broadly in making dance, participatory installations and community. The experience of growing up hearing in a Deaf family influences his thinking about how bodies perform as both subjects and agents of culture. Losing his hearing as an adult continues to contribute to his holistic and innovative practices that understand inclusivity as a resource for making work that is more meaningful and excellent in every sense. 

David is Artistic Director and Co-Founder of Headlong Dance Theater, a platform for performance research founded in Philly in 1993. David also directs the Headlong Performance Institute, a trans-disciplinary performance practice and training residency whose graduate fellows are leaders in creating experimental and community-based work around the US. Headlong’s large body of work has been performed natonally and internationally, and is known for its experiential and participatory nature, often co-created with audiences and communities. David’s work has received many awards and accolades including a NY Bessie for choreography; a Japan-US Friendship Commission Fellowship and a Pew Fellowship in the arts.

A significant part of David’s work is created in collaboration with other artists as they exchange approaches and values, particularly around process and community building. Precious collaborations with artists whose insights continue to influence him, include Jungwoong Kim and Germaine Ingram, Ishmael Houston Jones, Eiko Otake, Rosie Herrera, Dan Rothenberg, Toshiki Okada, Maiko Matsushima, Mimi Lien, Hari Krishnan, Jaamil Kosoko, Reggie Wilson, Larissa Velez Jackson, and Richard Bull/ Cynthia Novack.

Jungwoong Kim born and raised in South Korea, has been a dance/performing artist, choreographer, curator, actor, theater choreographer and arts educator for 25 years. He is trained in Korean martial arts and traditional dance/ritual of Korean shamanism, which strongly inform his aesthetic and artistic vision.  Kim describes his practice as “a dynamic dialogue between my training and background in South Korean traditional dance and music and my embrace of western improvisation, especially Contact Improvisation, as a performance medium.” His performance practice spans a spectrum of improvisational solos, durational ensemble work, site-specific engagement with visual and media artists, and characterizations for mainstage and experimental theater. He has performed with noted Contact Improvisors such as Karen Nelson and Christine Simpson.

Kim teaches workshops nationally and internationally that focus on movement, deep listening, and observation practices as a form of thinking that we can apply to any aspect of life, be it dancing, making, or being in the world. He has been adjunct faculty at Temple University (Philadelphia PA), University of the Arts (Philadelphia PA), and Franklin & Marshall College (Lancaster PA), and been a visiting teaching artist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Boston MA), and Richmond University (Richmond VA). He regularly leads workshops for the Hothouse repertory company of Wilma Theater in Philadelphia, and has led improvisation workshops across the U.S. and in Colombia, Mexico, Argentina, Germany, Japan, Thailand and South Korea.

His work has been supported by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, and the Knight Foundation among other funders.