Chrysa Parkinson is a performer and teacher living in Brussels and New York. She teaches regularly at P.A.R.T.S./Rosas and Dancentrum Jette in Brussels. In New York she teaches at Movement Research and The Panetta Movement Center. She is currently a member of Thomas Hauert/ZOO. She performed with Tere O'Connor Dance from 1986-2003. She has also worked with Jonathan Burrows, Deborah Hay, John Jasperse, Jennifer Monson, and David Zambrano, among others. Her teaching is influenced by all of the artists she as worked with. Chrysa occasionally writes essays. She received a Bessie Award for Sustained Achievement in 1992.

The focus of this class is on the relationship between what you do and how you do it. We will use improvisational scores, written material and coordination exercises to approach performance. Through self-observation and dialogue we will identify movement habits/skills and put these touse in developing new skills. The emphasis will be on sensing (vs searching), doing (vs interpreting) and authoring (vs modeling).