A workshop for emerging dancers and dance makers who are craving outside structure to work within and against. The class will consist of a few assignments, which are focused on the immediate act of building material more than the process of editing and refining. This engagement with creation and output of material it produces will ultimately provide a space for self-reflection and critique.

Free and open to the community. RSVP: motionstatearts@gmail.com

Thanks to Brown University and the Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies for hosting.

Beth Gill is a Guggenheim, Doris Duke Impact and Bessie Award-winning choreographer based in New York City since 2005.

Imbued with experimentalist and traditionalist values, her formal and exacting works are toned with the themes of obsession, alienation, objectification, female sexuality and rage, and transformation. Meticulous and rigorous in her approach she builds with the imagination and structural complexity of a long form novelist or large scale architect. Exploring aesthetics and perception she has produced an evolving body of work that utilizes abstraction, psychology, design, dance and drama in ways that are progressive and timely.

At 38 years old, Gill has produced six commissioned evening-length works met with critical acclaim and often on year-end “best of” lists. She has toured her work nationally and internationally and been honored with (among others): NEFA’s National Dance Project Grant; Princeton’s Hodder Fellowship; LMCC’s Extended Life Artist in Residence Award; New York City Center’s Choreography Fellowship; Foundation for Contemporary Arts’ Grant; and most recently a 2017-2018 Joyce Theater Comprehensive Creative Residency.

photo: Danielle Goldman in Gill’s Brand New Sidewalk, by Maria Baranova