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Amy is available in person in Los Angeles and via Zoom.
Amy O has over 20 years of professional dance experience: working as a dancer in contemporary dance companies, running her own company for 10 years, working as a solo/project to project artist, writing grants and fundraising, working on commercial sets, music videos, virtual reality, performing in night clubs, being the lead singer of a band, working in academia, teaching in studios, touring her work, making site specific performances, dance films, choreographing flash mobs and wedding dances, battling and organizing events in the hip hop and house dance community, relocating to a new city after years of establishing herself in another.
Need some perspective and guidance with what dance is for you? Working on a solo performance? Need mentorship for your masters thesis work? Need coaching around contemporary, house, or hip hop party dance techniques? Do you want help developing confidence in your freestyle/improvisation abilities? Do you need professional mentorship for being a pro dance artist? Are you getting back to dance after years of not dancing? Are you just getting started late in life? Do you need help developing a personal dance practice or cross training practice outside of taking classes?
3 Day Intensive
The Rhythm Assembly: Dancing Our Influences
July 20-22 2021. 2-5 pm. in person in Seattle and on Zoom.
The Rhythm Assembly: Dancing Our Influences is an intentional investigation into the sampling nature of creating dance in the moment of improvisation/freestyle or in a choreographic process and to your position to the cultures that inspire you. Our individual cultural lens affects the way we perceive the world and our relationship to it. Through the merging of hip hop and contemporary improvisation methods and compositional tools, we will strive to make more culturally informed and empowered choices. The complex nuances of appropriation/appreciation will be acknowledged but is not the focus of this intensive. Neither hip hop or contemporary dance experience are necessary or expected. For pre professional and professional dance artists from any dance culture or form.
The first hour will be The Rhythm Assembly, a freestyle techniques class exploring various perceptions of rhythm through the merging of philosophies and practices from hip hop dance culture and contemporary dance and performance followed by Dancing Our Influences, a compositional exploration looking at how we combine our influences in our work in a way that is mindful of our positionality to culture and engaging multiple audiences in our work.