November 1st - 5th
Monday - Friday
12:30 - 2:30
$75/week $18/single class
Limited space, pre-registration required. Call to hold your place.

The focus of this class is on the relationship between what you do and how you do it. We will experiment with moving between types of physical concentration – anatomical to expressive, stylistic, narrative, empathic, etc…. Through self-observation and dialogue we will identify movement habits/skills and put these to use in broadening the skill base. We will use improvisational scores, written movement phrases and coordination exercises to engage in performance.

The emphasis will be on sensing (vs searching), doing (vs interpreting) and authoring (vs modeling). The class is geared towards performers.

Chrysa Parkinson is a performer and teacher living in Brussels. She teaches regularly at P.A.R.T.S. and works as a mentor/coordinator for the Second–Cycle students. She also teaches regularly at The Raffinnerie and Danscentrum Jette in Brussels, Movement Research and The Panetta Movement Center in New York, and at Impulstanz in Vienna. In 2010/11 she is touring and performing with Jonathan Burrows, Mette Ingvartsen, and Rosas/Anna Teresa DeKeersmaker. She was a member of ZOO/Thomas Hauert (2001-2010), and has also worked with Deborah Hay, John Jasperse, Meg Stuart, Alix Euynadi, Eszter Salomon, and David Zambrano. She was a member of Tere O’Connor Dance from 1987-2002 in New York where she also performed with Irene Hultman and Jennifer Monson, among other artists. During that time she taught at Movement Research and at NYU. She was awarded a Bessie for sustained achievement as a performer in 1996. In 2008 Chrysa worked as a teacher researching performance practices in Montpellier with 6M1L and Ex.e.r.c.e. (initiated by Xavier Le Roy, Mette Ingvartsen and Bojana Cvejic). From her work in Montpellier she created an illustrated dvd essay called “Self-Interview on Practice.” Chrysa was the cover artist for the fall 2010 issue of The Movement Research Journal.