NEXT! Workshop curated by Pioneers Go East Collective at Judson Church.
Free event (& sliding scale tickets). All are welcome!
RSVP: Eventbrite
Featured artist: Joey Kipp.
In this Creative and engagement workshop, we will be getting to know our theaters, the space we are in (Judson) as well as our own. We will explore the space from a new perspective. We will do a series of vocal and movement improvisations and scores to amplify each other’s voices and bodies. How does the space inform us? How do we inform it? How can we dismantle/amplify that? How can we inform and celebrate each other while celebrating ourselves?
NEXT! Workshop - Storytelling & Movement-based Workshop Series is a creative and engagement program that draws from the participants’ life experience to empower them. Designed for multigenerational people - the creative workshop focuses on performance and storytelling techniques including movement practices, creative writing and interview-based acting. The goal is to create a nurturing learning environment and build stronger bonds within the participants’ community.
About the artist: Joey Kipp (he/him/his) is a Queer Afro-Latinx-Brazilian Brooklyn-based artist, born in Brazil and raised in Mtn. View, California. Joey is a graduate of Marymount Manhattan College (BA, Biology and Dance) and currently works/collaborates with Cynthia Madansky, Biba Bell, Ani Taj (The Dance Cartel), Rachel Klein, Pioneers Go East, and Heather Kravas. In 2019 he was in residency at the Rauschenberg Foundation Residency in collaboration with Heather Kravas, Vic Haven, and Zeena Parkins. Joey was featured in The New York Times and their online project Speaking in Dance for his work with Biba Bell, Stacy Grossfield, and Jody Oberfelder. Joey has taught dance to people with disabilities, as an educator for Abilities United in Palo Alto, CA. Theater credits include NEWSIES, DAMN YANKEES, Rob Pilatus in the Milli Vanilli Opera WOW: AN OPERA (BRIC), Kirsten Childs’ THE BUBBLY BLACK GIRL SHEDS HER CHAMELEON SKIN (Progressive Theater), IN THE HEIGHTS (Lincoln Park Center), THE MIRACLE OF HELIANE (Bard’s Summerscape), HEAD OVER HEELS (Dirty Minds), SOCIAL! (Park Avenue Armory), & LUCKY STAR (0.3) (Pioneers Go East). Joey is also a writer and storyteller who has shared work with TELL: A Queer Storytelling, Occupy City Hall, & JUNETEENTH at Grand Army Plaza. Joey thanks everyone who supports him in his artistry and craft, the Flatbush community, Merce Trust, Tyler, Caitlin, Karen, Maria, Mom, and the indigenous ancestors (whose land he performs and works on along), and the BIPOC LGBTQAI+ ancestors/contemporaries/allies who have helped keep him alive during this time.
All guests will be required to be fully vaccinated (please bring proof of vaccination). All visitors will be required to wear a face-covering at all times while they are at Judson Church. In addition, all surfaces are being sanitized on a regular basis. Please note the performers will perform maskless, but they are fully vaccinated and observing New York State’s Department of Health protocols for in-person events.
DIRECTIONS:
Judson Church
The entrance for the Workshops is located at
243 Thompson Street (near Washington Square Park)
New York, New York, 10012
Subway: A, C, E, B, D, F, M to West 4th Street or N, Q, R to NYU 8th Street.
Accessibility: Our accessible entrance is by way of 243 Thompson St. Use the lift to get to the Meeting Room on Level 3 or our accessible bathrooms on Level B (basement). Return to Level 1 for street access back to the corner of West 4th & Thompson St.