We have some absolutely stellar dancer artists coming to town this week!
Set Go
Shura Baryshnikov, Sarah Konner, Bradley Teal Ellis, Paul Singh, & Aaron Brando
dance performance
Fri Jan 17th, 7pm
Esch dance studio
Warch Campus Center
Free
Set Go is a Contact Improvisation Research and Performance ensemble founded in 2016 by dancers Shura Baryshnikov, Aaron Brando, Paul Singh, Bradley Teal Ellis, and Sarah Konner. Though all are interdisciplinary artists, each identifies Contact Improvisation as a primary practice and are lead researchers and educators in the field, both nationally and internationally. Collectively, Set Go has been practicing the form of Contact Improvisation for over 60 years and shares a love for whimsical, whole-hearted, virtuosic improvisation. Working from overlapping histories of improvisational practice, the collective frames the play between real-time composition and Contact Improvisation in performance. They have been dance-making together since 2009.
Our own fabulous Matt Turner, Mark Urness, and Loren Dempster will be improvising music with them.
https://www.facebook.com/events/538874706840924/
https://www.lawrence.edu/conservatory/performance_series/dance_series
There will also be a Set Go – Contact Improvisation intensive workshop
Saturday from 10-5pmEsch dance studio, WCC
if anyone is interested in trying some Contact Improvisation for themselves…
Email Margaret Paek for more info.
Or check out this link:
https://www.facebook.com/events/571408066969702/?active_tab=about
About the Set Go dancers:
Sarah Konner is a dance artist, improviser, and Somatic Movement Educator based in Brooklyn, NY. She teaches dance at Smith College where she is also a current MFA candidate.
Shura Baryshnikov is the Head of Physical Theatre for the Brown/Trinity Rep MFA Programs in Acting and Directing at Brown University. An actor as well as a dancer, Shura works broadly across disciplines as a performer and also a choreographer and movement designer for dance, theater, and opera.
Bradley Teal Ellis is a Brooklyn based dance artist and improviser. He currently teaches at NYU/Tisch, the Conservatory of Dance at Purchase College and Movement Research in addition to traveling to offer workshops in Contact Improvisation.
Paul Singh earned his degree in dance from a great university, has danced for talented choreographers, and makes his own challenging work. He currently teaches at Sarah Lawrence College, Movement Research, and The Juilliard School.
Aaron Brando, M.Ed, loves the art of crafting pedagogy in a non-codified system such as Contact Improvisation and has taught workshops and intensives throughout North America as well as internationally. He is honored to have shared the stage with Nancy Stark Smith, Chris Aiken, and Angie Hauser among others; he has also trained in Anatomy Trains Structural Integration and is a certified SI practitioner with practices in Northampton and Boston.
photos by Anna M. Maynard –
Shura Baryshnikov and Sarah Konner, Shura Baryshnikov and Bradley Teal Ellis