BIOGRAPHY
Lindsey Jennings (she/her) is a dance artist, teacher, collage-maker, and performer based in Lenapehoking (Brooklyn, NY). Rigorous movement tasks, labor, and material forms have been a constant in her body and life, now evidenced in her performance, image, and choreographic work. She is originally from the lands of the Kickapoo, Peoria, and Kaskaskia people, where she attended the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and received her BFA in Dance in 2020 and was awarded scholarships for outstanding performance and research. She currently works as a freelance, dancer, designer, and teacher in New York, where she teaches a weekly dance classes at Gibney Dance Center and Peridance Center, as well as pilates classes and privates. Lindsey has been an Artist-in-Residence at MOtiVE Brooklyn, a recipient of the Eryc Taylor New Choreographer Grant, and has shared work in various digital, performance, and material mediums around New York City, the US, and abroad. More at www.lindseyjennings.com and @_lindseyjennings on Instagram.
CLASS DESCRIPTION
This class is built upon my own history and training in experimental, release-based, and improvisational techniques that works within the methodology of the body as a conduit for processing, imagining, listening, and transforming. We will find these ideas evidenced in class via 'set' material and skill building, improvisational investigation, and visceral image offerings.
In class, repetitive loops of movement and durational exercises will function as a sieve to locate efficient use of weight and momentum in the body. The movement prioritizes sensation over shape while looking to access a specific use of energy that draws from the earth, thru our bodies as conduit, and out into the space around us. We will access this sensitivity to gravity from the start of class in durational choreographed pathways before researching the sensation further in improvisational scores, 'across the floor' exercises, and communal dance practices. Class will often conclude in a larger choreographed phrase that collages together the skills, sensations, and ideas that we have accumulated that day.
We will accentuate weightedness, harness resilient strength, and aim to conjure the emotional frequencies we need for that day - communally working to feel really good.