Joe Goode Performance Group

Promotes understanding, compassion and tolerance among people through the innovative use of dance and theater

Education

HMD’s Bridge Project and Yayoi Kambara present: Aesthetic Equity

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A workshop with Liz Lerman & Paloma McGregor

Aesthetic equity is not ________ / aesthetic equity is _______ / visioning the reworking of everything, together

This workshop will allow for examination of movement practices from company class to compacts for collaborative performance making to the work of being in the room together. The urgency of our times demands our fresh attentiveness to decision making, imagination, and building multiple frames for our work.

ABOUT THE FACILITATORS

Liz Lerman is a choreographer, performer, writer, educator and speaker, and the recipient of honors including a 2002 MacArthur “Genius Grant” and a 2017 Jacob’s Pillow Dance Award. Key to her artistry is opening her process to various publics, resulting in research and outcomes that are participatory, urgent, and usable. She founded Dance Exchange in 1976 and led it until 2011. Her recent work Healing Wars toured the US. Liz teaches Critical Response Process, creative research, the intersection of art and science, and the building of narrative within dance at institutions such as Harvard, Yale School of Drama, and Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Her third book is Hiking the Horizontal: Field Notes from a Choreographer. As of 2016 she is an Institute Professor at Arizona State University.

Paloma McGregor, originally from St. Croix, is an award-winning artist and organizer living in Harlem. Paloma’s work centers Black voices through collaborative, process-based art-making and organizing. A lover of intersections and alchemy, she develops projects in which communities of geography, practice, and values come together to laugh, make magic and transform. She has created a wide range of work, including a dance through a makeshift fishnet on a Brooklyn rooftop, a structured improvisation for a floating platform in the Bronx River and a devised multidisciplinary performance work about food justice with three dozen community members and students at UC Berkeley.Paloma was a 2013‐14 Artist In Residence at NYU’s Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics, a 2014-16 Artist In Residence at BAX | Brooklyn Arts Exchange, a 2016-18 New York Live Arts Live Feed Artist, and is currently a Movement Research Artist in Residence and an Urban Bush Women Choreographic Fellow. She has been nominated for the prestigious United States Artists Fellowship and the Herb Alpert Award. Recent support for her work includes grants from MAP Fund, Surdna Foundation, Dance/NYC, NYSCA and Dance/USA Engaging Dance Audiences.

Paloma also facilitates technique, creative process and community engagement workshops around the world. She toured internationally for six years with Urban Bush Women and two years with Liz Lerman/Dance Exchange, and continues to perform in project‐based work, including Skeleton Architecture, with whom she received a 2017 New York Dance and Performance Bessie Award for performance.

12-4pm, $45-$100 sliding scale, contact [email protected] with questions

Workshop Series with Sara Shelton Mann: Week 1

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TWO SPECIAL WORKSHOP WEEKS! 

at Joe Goode Annex 
Dec 2-5 and Dec. 9-12
10am-12pm

I’ve received a special request to return back to basics. 

This is a culmination of what my work I teach now is based on. Back to basics compiles a lot of my old teachings, and trainings based on BMC as well as each individual system in the body. 

Week. 1 

Back to Basics – Being in the Body

Engage in communication through touch, sensing, energy exploration, physical puzzles and what can be imagined. The process is directed, specific and open for your uniqueness.  It is a physical training that enlivens your senses and your awareness while training your body to be that question, that choice and that actualization. If you are energy then everything is you.

What is your set point?
What is your zero point?
What is holding the being?
What is holding the body?
Come bask in the weight body, sensing body and spirit in space.

$20 single 

$75 for one week

$140 for both week

 Week discount and 2 weeks discount 

 No one turned away for lack of funds  

Contact: [email protected] 

Fall Class Series (1) with Sara Shelton Mann

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Open Classes with Sara Shelton Mann

Tuesdays and Thursdays 10AM-12PM

$20/drop-in Cash, Check, Venmo
$100 for 6-class series

Series 1: September 15-October 3
Series 2: October 22- November 7
Series 3: December 3-19

Series 1: Solos and groups
This is a dance class, a proposition for creating through improvisation and research through self-inquiry
Using SNF (solo/neutral/follow) as a basic score for group energy we will track rhythms, paths and cross roads. This will be a study of personal signature. Chi – cultivation, dancing, journaling and touch as a training technique will be present – come dance

Questions: Email [email protected]
NOTAFLOF Available- email [email protected]

Dance Church Pop-up

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Dance Church® is an all-abilities movement class that offers a fun and inclusive approach to dancing. Designed for people of all shapes and sizes, backgrounds and identities, Dance Church is a communal space for people who want to move their bodies. The teacher leads this 90-minute class in a series of movement cues, accompanied by a curated playlist of multi-genre pop music. The format is open but guided throughout.

Dance Church® was created by Kate Wallich in 2010. Classes are hosted regularly in Seattle, Portland, New York and LA, and have popped up in cities worldwide.

All levels, abilities, body types, identities and genders. No previous training is required, but open-mindedness is a prerequisite. Wear clothes you can sweat in. Most people go barefoot or wear socks. Get lost dancing and sweat (a lot) together—it’s the dance party you wish you had last night.

Sun, Aug 25, 10-11:30am
$15 cash/card at the door

Movement for Humans

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Open Saturday classes taught by Joe Goode, focusing on gentle, restorative movement.

Movement for Humans is an all-levels movement class, taught by Joe Goode. Movement for Humans is a movement class for all ages and all bodies that fosters a deeply present state, allowing a gentle exploration of the body wherein movement becomes pleasurable and our physical expectations are set aside. The movement sequencing is designed to facilitate an unpacking of the body, bringing it into a state of creative receptivity. A safe and supportive environment—no experience required!

10am-12pm, Saturdays
Aug 24, Sep 21*, Oct 19, Nov 16
*Taught by a JGPG company member.

SLIDING SCALE $10-20
NO RSVP REQUIRED, SIGN-IN LIST AT THE DOOR

Movement for Humans

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Open Saturday classes taught by Joe Goode, focusing on gentle, restorative movement.

Movement for Humans is an all-levels movement class, taught by Joe Goode. Movement for Humans is a movement class for all ages and all bodies that fosters a deeply present state, allowing a gentle exploration of the body wherein movement becomes pleasurable and our physical expectations are set aside. The movement sequencing is designed to facilitate an unpacking of the body, bringing it into a state of creative receptivity. A safe and supportive environment—no experience required!

10am-12pm, Saturdays
Aug 24*- NEXT: Sep 21*, Oct 19, Nov 16
*Taught by a JGPG company member.

SLIDING SCALE $10-20
NO RSVP REQUIRED, SIGN-IN LIST AT THE DOOR

The City Waves: Tuesday Waves

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Tuesday Waves is an open 5Rhythms class, hosted by The City Waves. Everyone is welcomed.

“As we ride the waves of life, we share the spirited mix, eclectic nature of our culture, community and co-existence. The City Waves passionately brings out the potent medicine of this moving meditation with clarity, power and grace. Waves all around us, waves from inside us, waves from dancing together. Waves that inspire our body to move, whether on familiar and unfamiliar rhythms and beats to discover, challenge, mesmerize, explore and appreciate more of who we are. We find the truth through the body, as the beats changes. There is no need to have any particular physical background or to consider ourselves dancers or not. We keep moving with the music and the dance will come to us. We dance until the dancer disappears and only the dance remains. Please respect the tribe’s intention and integrity by arriving on time. Please enter through the black gate at corner of Alabama St and 17th. If gate is locked, please ring the bell, we will buzz you in. Then enter the first door on your right.”
More information: thecitywaves.com

Tuesdays
7-8:30pm
Latest entry 7:15pm (Door is closed)
To Register, email [email protected] (drop-ins no longer accepted)
The City Waves™ Class Card is valid for this class

The City Waves: Tuesday Waves

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Tuesday Waves is an open 5Rhythms class, hosted by The City Waves. Everyone is welcomed.

“As we ride the waves of life, we share the spirited mix, eclectic nature of our culture, community and co-existence. The City Waves passionately brings out the potent medicine of this moving meditation with clarity, power and grace. Waves all around us, waves from inside us, waves from dancing together. Waves that inspire our body to move, whether on familiar and unfamiliar rhythms and beats to discover, challenge, mesmerize, explore and appreciate more of who we are. We find the truth through the body, as the beats changes. There is no need to have any particular physical background or to consider ourselves dancers or not. We keep moving with the music and the dance will come to us. We dance until the dancer disappears and only the dance remains. Please respect the tribe’s intention and integrity by arriving on time. Please enter through the black gate at corner of Alabama St and 17th. If gate is locked, please ring the bell, we will buzz you in. Then enter the first door on your right.”
More information: thecitywaves.com

Tuesdays
7-8:30pm
Latest entry 7:15pm (Door is closed)
To Register, email [email protected] (drop-ins no longer accepted)
The City Waves™ Class Card is valid for this class

Greek Feet

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Greek Dance Class hosted by Greek Feet.

“Grab your mandili, white handkerchief, and step into a world of Greek dance at Joe Goode Annex. Explore the spirit of Greece through the music and dance of several regions. This vibrant dance community welcomes everyone, beginner to advanced. We will offer a class designed for the beginner from 7-7:30. We encourage students from this class to stay for the next class starting at 7:30 pm. The first hour is dedicated to instruction and the second hour is practice of previously learned dances requested by students. Each month we emphasize a different region of Greece.”

More information: greekfeet.com

Mondays
Beginner class at 7pm
Regular class 7:30-9:30pm
Cost is $20 per month or $10 per drop-in session – pay at the door

The body is a political territory, every gesture, every posture is a statement of who this person is in this moment of action or this very public moment of being seen.

- Joe Goode
Mar 23

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