GALLIMasters with Stefanie Batten Bland
Wednesday, October 16th | 10am - 12pm | $20 online, $25 at the door

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Stefanie Batten Bland teach on October 16th as part of GALLIMasters, our intensive technique and repertory masterclass series.

GALLIMasters is masterclass series curated and hosted by Gallim. Meet and work closely with today's top creatives in an immersive session with their ideas, approach, technique, and body of work. Open to a limited number of advanced and professional-level dancers, this monthly series includes esteemed artists such as former Merce Cunningham dancer Silas Riener, Trisha Brown Dance Company's Cecily Campbell, Catherine Ellis Kirk of A.I.M, and more!

For advanced and professional dancers.

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ABOUT STEFANIE BATTEN BLAND

Stefanie Batten Bland is a Jerome Robbins awardee who physically interrogates contemporary and historical cultural symbolism and the complexities of human relationships in her creations. Her intercontinental dance-theatre company Company SBB, formed in 2008 in France, situates their work at the intersection of installation and dance-theatre in live performance settings and film. 

Current credits: Choreographer, American Ballet Theatre’s Women’s Movement Initiative; Featured Artist 2019 FIAF Crossing The Line Festival;  Fellow, Center For Ballet Arts at NYU; Artist-in-Residence, American Center For Art & Culture in Paris; Movement Director, Eve’s Song at The Public Theater. SBB recently graduated from Goddard College with an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts with a Concentration in Performance Creation and lives with her family in SoHo NYC, where she grew up the daughter of artists.

CLASS DESCRIPTION

Welcome To Birdland - Physical Perspectives by Stefanie Batten Bland

The goal of this Dance-Theatre class is to explore and increase creativity for performers, enforcing dynamic decision making both physically, theatrically and vocally. Company SBB’s working method "physical perspectives" focuses on ways of being and will introduce participants to theatre and movement exercises with particular emphasis on material integration. Participants are invited to bring large tee-shirts or towels.

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Photo by JC Dhien.