Portable City Community Dance Series

Portable City projects invited artist and community builder Paige Tighe to create a platform for dance and community engagement through movement. Over the course of six months, Portable City and  Paige Tighe animated the following dancers and movers to host various publics through movement: Paige Tighe, Gregory Barnett, Christine Suarez, Elizabeth Yochim, and Alison O’Daniel. All workshops were held at LACE in the second gallery during gallery hours

Portable City projects invited artist and community builder Paige Tighe to create a platform for dance and community engagement through movement. Get LACE shakin!

Calendar of Dance and Movement (All are welcome.)

September 26^, 2010

Leader: Paige Tighe

You CAN meditate while moving. Paige will lead group in simple meditative dance exercises. The focus will be in being present in your body. These exercises will center you while also being energizing!

October 24, 2010

Leader: Gregory Barnett

 An all-level interdisciplinary performance and movement workshop based in conviction/commitment/intent rather than traditional training or a particular codified school of technique. A two hour practice
working with vulnerability and emotional sensitivity as a strength, a
series of homo-led actions and experiments stemming from a healthy
lack of inhibition and a nauseating amount of self-love, a constructed
environment acknowledging we are all inherently God His/Her/Itself
and profoundly retarded simultaneously at all times.

November 14, 2010

Leader: Christine Suarez

 Christine Suarez is a choreographer, dancer and art instigator. She loves to make dances in unusual and unexpected places. Her definition of dance is broad and welcoming. Using improvisation, sound and our bodies we will jointly create mini-dance events all over the space. 

December 12, 2010

Leader: Elizabeth Yochim

Turning the Wheel enlivens whole mind, body, and spirit consciousness through embodiment, play and authentic self-expression. We are a movement of thousands of people of all walks of life across the U.S. dancing on the frontier of contemporary culture with large scale community performances, dance mobs, classes, and workshops.  We invite you to join us!

Minimum: 10 people

RSVP at voice@portablecityprojects

Jan 23, 2010

Leader: Paige Tighe

You CAN meditate while moving. Paige will lead group in simple meditative dance exercises. The focus will be in being present in your body. These exercises will center you while also being energizing!

Feb. 27, 2010

Leader: Christine Suarez

Christine Suarez is a choreographer, dancer and art instigator. She loves to make dances in unusual and unexpected places. Her definition of dance is broad and welcoming. Using improvisation, sound and our bodies we will jointly create mini-dance events all over the space. 

March 27, 2010

Leader: Elizabeth Yochim

Turning the Wheel enlivens whole mind, body, and spirit consciousness through embodiment, play and authentic self-expression. We are a movement of thousands of people of all walks of life across the U.S. dancing on the frontier of contemporary culture with large scale community performances, dance mobs, classes, and workshops.  We invite you to join us!

Minimum 10 people per class

RSVP at voice@portablecityprojects.org

April 24, 2010

Leader: Alison O’Daniel

Alison O'Daniel will lead a movement workshop based on seemingly unimportant scenes in films that serve to bridge together important, climactic moments within narrative. These moments we will seek inspiration from are the filler- the interstitial 'narrative travelling' characters do to get from one emotion or location to another.  Films that we might draw from could include: Dirty Dancing, Antonioni's The Passenger, My Own Private Idaho, Spike Lee's She's Gotta Have It, Fellini's Juliet of the Spirits, Dead Man, Some Kind of Wonderful, Badlands and JCVD to name a few. We will loosely construct pointless, subtle, forgettable movement narratives, implying that a future scene pregrant with profound possibility is imminent.