Sarah Michelson
Masterclass: ON THE SUBJECT OF DANCES AND THEIR CONSTRUCTION IN RELATION TO INTENTION
Masterclass: ON THE SUBJECT OF DANCES AND THEIR CONSTRUCTION IN RELATION TO INTENTION
Past dates
10/8/16
11:00 AM
Masterclass with Sarah Michelson from New York about methods of choreographical compositions: «How can anything ever be good enough to replace nothing? Replacing nothing with something is a dirty business. I take it seriously.»
Sarah Michelson is a choreographer and performer who synthesizes performance, installation, sound, and architectural elements in unexpected ways. Recent works include Devotion (2011), Dover Beach (2009), and commissions from Mikhail Baryshnikov’s White Oaks Project (The Experts), the Walker Art Center (Daylight (for Minneapolis)), and the Brooklyn Academy of Music (Dogs). She is the recipient of the Der Foerder Prize, Arts International’s DNA Project Grant, multiple NEFA National Dance Project grants, multiple MAP Fund grants, a Creative Capital Award (2006), the Alpert Award in the Arts (2006), a Guggenheim Fellowship (2009), and the Whitney Biennial Bucksbaum Award (2012); and has served as a resident artist of On the Boards, Montclair State University, and the Walker Art Center. She has served as associate director of Movement Research, editor-in-chief of Performance Journal, and is currently an associate curator of dance at The Kitchen.
In English| For dancers and dance students
