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Kendra Portier
Contemporary
Biography:
Originally from Columbus (OH), Portier trained and apprenticed with BalletMet, and received a BFA with Honors from the Ohio State University. She has been a Choreographic and/or Teaching Artist at Bates College (ME), Colby College (ME) , Salem University (MA), the University of Utah (UT), the Ohio State University (OH), Hunter College (NY), Pennsylvania State University (PA), Nebraska University at Lincoln (NB), New York Summer Dance Intensive (NY), Dancewave (NY), the nEW Festival (PA), Performance Projects at Dance New Amsterdam (NY), Broadway Dance Center (NY), Wesleyan University (CT), Oakland University (MI), Tisch School of the Arts (NY), and the acclaimed Bates Dance Festival (ME). Currently, Kendra is on faculty at Gibney Dance Center, the Peridance Center and Mark Morris Dance Group; performs with Vanessa Justice Dance and David Dorfman Dance; and is actively creating and collaborating under the moniker BANDportier.
Class Description:
Bombastic Post-Downtown
Class is a super physical sensation-based articulation of
form via improvisation, imagination and heavily nuanced
set material. Class begins with filtering our formal
techniques with an active creative practice that encourages
trust and choice-making. We will take ownership of our
unique eccentricity, beauty, and darkness. We will cultivate
the permission to reveal, explore, and revel in the effort
and joy. We will gather to regenerate, discover, challenge,
and applaud. We will dance via little physics and loud
ways; sweat and move until we cannot.