John Jasperse Choreography Workshop at the Live Arts Brewery (LAB)

Guidelines

The Live Arts Brewery and Bryn Mawr College are pleased to offer a three day choreographic intensive with world renowned creator and teacher John Jasperse. For nearly 25 years Jasperse has been making and presenting dance worldwide. He is known internationally for his unique approach to movement and choreography. John Jasperse has been presented by the Joyce Theater, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, Walker Art Center, The Brooklyn Academy of Music, and many others. In addition to his own company, Jasperse has created works for the Baryshnikov Dance Foundation, the Batsheva Dance Company, and the Lyon Opéra Ballet.

Following a simple warm-up, we will spend the day working with composition as a simple process of putting things together. We'll think about combination in terms of different manners of organization, disorganization, and reorganization. In seeking to invent/discover appropriate organizational structures for our individual expression(s), we will take inspiration and suggestions from the organizational systems we find in the fields of art history, music, politics, science, and grammar, taking aspects of found organizational structures which are of use or interest to us and disposing of/mutating them as per our needs. Meaning will be thought of as the dialogue between content, form and perception.

• Up to twelve choreographers/creators will be invited to work intensively with John for a period of three days.
• Any artist who has been actively choreographing work for a period of at least three years is encouraged to apply.
• All sessions take place at the LAB.
• The current schedule for workshop participants is as follows:
           December 2 – 4 (Friday – Sunday) 10am – 6pm
• If you are selected you will be required to attend all listed classes. No exceptions.
• This class is free of charge for participants.

Please email a letter of interest to Craig Peterson, LAB Director (craig@livearts-fringe.org) with the subject line Jasperse LOI. In your LOI please include the following:

• Complete contact information.
• A biography or resume that illustrates your choreographic/creative history.
• A one page letter explaining how your work and your creative process will benefit from a workshop with John Jasperse based on the workshop description.

• Please submit your letter of inquiry to the attention of Craig Peterson no later than October 28, 2011.
• Participants will be selected and notified by November 4, 2011.
• Applicants will be reviewed by John Jasperse, Craig Peterson and Lisa Kraus, Coordinator, Bryn Mawr College Performing Arts Series.

The Live Arts Brewery (LAB) is located at 919 North 5th Street in the Northern Liberties neighborhood of Philadelphia. The LAB is a program for research and development launched in 2009 by the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival. It is the goal of the LAB to provide opportunities for artists to explore, ruminate and discuss processes relevant to the evolution and creation of dance, theater and cross-genre live performance work. Workshop showings, lectures and demonstrations, master classes and community gatherings are a part of ongoing LAB programming.

For complete information on the John Jasperse Company residency at Bryn Mawr College and the LAB visit brynmawr.edu/arts/series.html.

This John Jasperse Company residency and workshop is supported by the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage through Dance Advance.

For more information about the Live Arts Brewery (LAB), LAB Fellows, and the Second Thursdays Series, visit our LAB page.