Unconventional Practice with Hollis Bartlett and Nattie Trogdon

CLASS DESCRIPTION:

Where, why and how does our dancing practice locate itself inside our bodies and our spaces? Who are the ghosts in our room and the performances we move through daily? We are asking these questions as we work to build a practice together where we can dive into both individual and collective research. This practice space will be a gathering of all of our tools of training and our experiences so we can move, listen, feel, question, and discuss together. There are possibilities for improvisational scores, anatomical awareness, expulsive exercises, and writing prompts.

BIO:

Nattie Trogdon (she/her) + Hollis Bartlett (he/him) are choreographers, performers, practitioners, and partners based in Lenapehoking // Brooklyn, NY. They create dance works and research based practices around rigor and repetition, ghosts and vessels, objectivity and subjectivity, and their shared lineage and embodied relationship. They have been artists in residence at Gibney (Work Up Artists 5.0), Atlantic Center for the Arts, The Dance Complex, The Floor on Atlantic, and NYU Tisch Dance. Hollis has been with Doug Varone and Dancers since 2011, Nattie is a freelance performer, choreographer and arts administrator navigating the field since 2012, and together they instigated POP-UP Practice through freeskewl - a series centered around different ideas of embodied practice.

Attend on Zoom or in-person at Triskelion Arts (Greenpoint, Brooklyn // Lenapehoking). NOTE: In-person spots are limited. KN95 or N95 masks and proof of vaccination (including booster) required. 

PAYMENT (SLIDING SCALE):

Unemployed/Under-employed: $8-15

Employed: $15-30

Artist Supporter: $31-50

ACCESSIBILITY:

In-Person Option (Triskelion Arts' Theater): Triskelion Arts is a fully ADA-compliant and accessible theater venue with a marley floor. The theater is located on the ground floor, with an accessible restroom on the ground level. You may enter the building via ramps or stairs.

Zoom Option: Rev Live Captions, which are computer automated CCs, are provided.

COVER PHOTO IMAGE DESCRIPTION:

Hollis and Nattie are standing side by side in blue chambray button up shirts. There are green trees and blue sky in the background. Nattie with dark hair looks into the camera, Hollis with peppered black and gray hair looks into the distance; American Gothic style. Credit: Debbie Trogdon