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MAKING our way: some strategies for nonstopping
a speaking + movement workshop with Jeanine Durning in Detroit
​Working from a basic premise that dance is an ever-shifting, unfixed practice of encountering ourselves being on the way while making our way, we'll use this workshop format to play, tune, and sometimes grapple with multiple tools and strategies for doing, being and making in the continuous present. We'll start with simple, non-theoretical strategies for nonstop speaking and moving as a practice of getting closer to the material of ourselves and the structures of our thinking. Through the accumulation of different tasks, conditions, and micro scores, that deal with time, space, place and others, we’ll work on forming, amplifying, and articulating the complex ecology of ourselves in practice. This workshop is open to all folks of all disciplines who are willing to move and speak a lot (and sometimes write) as modes of creative practice as well as have a willingness to sometimes not know what is being produced from it while still sustaining desire to keep going. (Please bring something to write on and with.)
Tuesday, June 3
11am-2pm, $10-$15 suggested donation (payment at the door is fine)
ANDY Arts: 3000 Fenkell Ave, Detroit, MI 48238
Supported by Andy Arts | @andyartcenter
The Essential Jill Johnston Reader and Jill Johnston in Motion
an evening with Clare Croft in Houston
Author Clare Croft reads from her two recent publications:
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In Jill Johnston in Motion, Clare Croft tracks Johnston’s entwined innovations and contributions to dance and art criticism and activism. She examines Johnston’s journalism and criticism—in particular her Village Voice columns published between 1960 and 1980—and her books of memoir and biography. At the same time, Croft attends to Johnston’s appearances as both dancer and audience member and her physical and often spectacular participation at feminist protests.
The Essential Jill Johnston Reader collects dozens of pieces of her writing from across her career. These writings—many of which appeared in the Village Voice and the New York Times—survey the breadth of her work, braiding together her thinking, writing, and activism. Illustrating how Johnston drew on lessons from dance to reconsider what it means to be a woman, this collection brings a fascinating and brilliant voice of American arts criticism, radical feminism, and gay liberation back to contemporary audiences.
