Schedule

Upcoming

GERALDCASELDANCE 2016 Home Season

ODC Theater, San Francisco, CA

December 8-10, 2016C

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Recent Performances and Events

American Dance Festival Six Week School

Duke University, Durham, NC

June 16 – July 9, 2016

 

GERALDCASELDANCE Company Workshop

ODC, San Francisco, CA

July 11-15, 2016

 

Mountain Dance Fest

University of Montana, Missoula, MT

July 18-22, 2016

 

give. (premiere)

UC Santa Cruz MainStage Theater ----> click here for tickets

May 13-22, 2016

 

Dido and Aeneas

UC Santa Cruz Music Recital Hall

June 2-5, 2016

 

Sandbox Series (designed to support artistic exploration and creative exploration in choreography)

ODC Theater, San Francisco, CA

Rehearsal series: February 15 – March 9; March 14 – April 6, April 11 – May 4th, 2016

 

Marqués

UC Santa Cruz Experimental Theater, Santa Cruz, CA

February 26 — March 6, 2016

 

Splinters in Our Ankles (premiere)

ODC Theater, San Francisco, CA

December 18, 2015 - 8pm (followed by post performance reception)

December 19, 2015 - 2pm & 8pm (Q&A following 8pm show)

December 20, 2015 - 7pm

 

Hope Mohr's Bridge Project

Joe Goode Annex,, San Francisco, CA

November 8, 2015 - 7pm

 

ODC Resident Artists Unplugged

ODC Studio B, San Francisco

August 30, 2015 - 6pm

 

Asia Pacific Dance Festival

University of Hawaii-Manoa, Honolulu, HI

July 21, 2015 - noon

 

World Dance Alliance

Kennedy Theater, Honolulu, HI

July 28, 2015 - 7pm

 

Splinters in our Ankles (preview performances)

University of California, Santa Cruz – MainStage Theater, Santa Cruz, CA

May 22-24 and May 28-31, 2015 - 7:30pm (Sundays at 3:00pm)

 

Dwelling

ODC – Walking Distance Dance Festival, San Francisco, CA

June 6, 2015 - 7:30 pm and 8:30pm

 

Work-in-Progress – Movement Research

Judson Church, New York, NY

January 19, 2015

 

Work-in-Progress  (as part of CONCEPT series 16, in association with RAWdance)

Joe Goode Annex, San Francisco, CA

December 12, 2014 - 8:00pm, December 13, 2014 - 3:00 and 8:00pm

http://www.rawdance.org/events/concept-series-16/

 

CHIME @ 10 LIVE 

Margaret Jenkins Dance Lab, San Francisco, CA

December 9, 2014

http://www.mjdc.org/CHIME/chimesf-14.html

 

Home is

Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA (in collaboration with The Homeless Garden Project)

December 5, 2014 - 6:00 and 8:00pm

http://www.santacruzmah.org/event/free-first-friday-21/

 

Visiter

Joe Goode Annex, San Francisco, CA

October 16-18, 2014

watch excerpts here

 

Left Heavy (Work-in-Progress)

Dancenow, Joe's Pub, New York, NY

September 6, 2014 - 7:00pm

For more info: http://dancenownyc.org

 

Dwelling

Santa Cruz Fringe Festival, Santa Cruz, CA

July 11-13, 2014

 

Looking Left

Motion Pacific, Santa Cruz, CA

April 11-12, 2014

 

Visiter – WORLD PREMIERE

Motion Pacific, Santa Cruz, CA

May 2-3, 2014

 

Pilot 64

ODC, San Francisco, CA

March 28-29, 2014

 

Pilot 63

ODC, San Francisco, CA

December 7-8, 2013

 

Borders, Boundaries and Peace A Conference sponsored by The Wisconsin Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies and UWM

 University of Wisconsin - Joseph J. Zilber School of Public Health, Milwaukee, WI

February 28-March 1, 2013

http://www.uwsp.edu/cols-ap/WIPCS/Pages/Conferences/default.aspx

 

Proxima

ACDFA Baja Region at El Camino College

April 11-14, 2013

http://www.regonline.com/builder/site/default.aspx?EventID=1123711

 

Tactical Bodies: CORD (Congress on Research in Dance)

University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

April 19-21, 2013

http://www.cordance.org/2013STC

 

Summer Dance Technique Intensive

The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC

June 10-14, 2013

 

GERALDCASELDANCE Summer Intensive: Resilience

July 24-28, 2017 at Joe Goode Annex

Led by Gerald Casel and collaborators, this one-week summer intensive will focus on the process of cultivating resilience. We will offer dancers and choreographers the opportunity to take a daily somatics-based modern technique class and an improvisation/composition lab.

This intensive is designed for pre-professional (17+) and professional dance artists as well as dance technique / composition teachers and dance scholars. Our carefully crafted program provides space for all attendees to deepen their understanding of somatics and technique and to enliven choreographic processes with a group dedicated to practice and performance as a place for personal growth and resilience. Classes will be accompanied by Tim Russell.

 

Schedule (Monday-Friday)

10:15am-12:00pm  Somatics-based Modern Technique (open to the community)

12:00pm-12:30pm  Lunch break

12:30pm-4:00pm    Improvisation and Composition Lab

 

*Tuition $300 for the entire week ($275 if registered by July 1)

$15 drop-in for daily technique class

 

Register here:

https://squareup.com/store/geraldcaseldance

Somatics-based Modern Technique

An experiential laboratory for movement, this modern technique class explores strategies for thinking bodies to expand their range and ease of motion, revealing their truest movement potential. Class will address anatomical principles that are essential to any movement practice (i.e. embodied imagery, awakening of all body systems, dynamic alignment, balance, connectivity and spatial clarity).

We will begin with a thorough warm-up consisting of gentle floor-work, both learned and improvised (incorporating ideas from Irene Dowd, Bartenieff Fundamentals, and PNF patterns). Class progresses to standing exercises and movement phrases that travel across, in and out of the floor to investigate flow and energy while paying attention to the dancer’s awareness of time, energy, focus, breath, and relationship to gravity. Class culminates with a dance phrase that integrates mind and body, harmoniously moving with greater articulation, expressivity, and intent.

We will awaken the subtle body, question virtuosity, breathe with intention, feel a deep belonging to space, befriend gravity, sing a little, learn complex phrases, and unlearn patterns that no longer serve our dancing.

 

Improvisation and Composition Lab

This class contends with the intimate negotiations and problem-solving skills necessary to create movement within a dynamic compositional structure. One of the goals is to challenge dancers and choreographers to create interventions against choreographic systems and thinking that perpetuate supremacy of one cultural knowledge and value over another. We will explore modes of movement invention, improvisation, and composition that critically probe various choreographic tasks, structures, and assumptions not usually challenged in dance-making. Practicing various techniques that disidentify from compositional techniques that re-inscribe normativity, we will interrupt the production of sameness.

Participants will experiment with random generators, drawing, speaking, and vocalizing, tracking the mind while improvising, duration and boredom, and more. Ideas and solutions will materialize in the form of solos, duets and trios, expressing the infinite ways that movement and meaning inter-relate. We will interrogate existing pedagogies and methodologies of dance composition (Viewpoints, Critical Response Process, Forsythe Improvisation Technologies, and the use of scores) and imagine ways to be more inclusive of any dance form, ethno-cultural histories, aesthetic sensibilities, and abilities.

 

*Tuition scholarships are available for emerging choreographers and pre-professional dancers from historically underrepresented communities or from those with great financial need. We want to support dance artists who may be undocumented, immigrants, refugees, particularly people of color.

Please email geraldcasel@gmail.com for more information.