NEXT! Workshop curated by Pioneers Go East Collective at Judson Church.

Free event (& sliding scale tickets). All are welcome!

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Workshop - Shifting Concepts: from Poem to Body. Featured artist: Yoshiko Chuma.

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 workshop - Shifting Concepts: from Poem to Body.

Dance is a monologue, flowing resistance activity using dance to deliver a delicate and powerful message. Poets will speak a kind of monologue composed of abstract dance movements. Dance is a poem. We will move a lot, we will talk a lot. Through adoration and frustration, political and non political subject matters, strengths and weaknesses, we come together to facilitate this workshop.

About the artist: Yoshiko Chuma (conceptual artist, choreographer/artistic director of The School of Hard Knocks) has been a firebrand in the post-modern dance scene of New York City since the 1980s, has been consistently producing thought-provoking work that is neither dance nor theater nor film nor any other pre-determined category. She is an artist and the dancer on her own journey. A path that has taken her to over 40 “out of the way” countries and collected over 2000 artists, thinkers and collaborators of every genre since establishing her company The School of Hard Knocks in New York City in 1980.

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.