Physical Listening Lab with JoAnna Mendl Shaw
For over 25 years, JoAnna Mendl Shaw has created original performance works in collaboration with horses. This workshop draws from that practice, using tools developed through working with horses to explore connection and communication with other people in the studio. You'll move through guided exercises to sense, interpret, and respond to another person’s energy—using your body to make decisions in the moment.
Eiko Otake: Film Screening & Artist Talk
Join us on Tuesday, September 16 for a screening of NO RULE IS OUR RULE (Eiko Otake and Wen Hui, 2023, run time: 1 hr 15 min), followed by a talkback with Otake at the Bushel Collective.
Doors at 7:30, screening at 8:00.
Eiko Otake: Performance at Woodland Cemetery
Join us on Wednesday, September 17th at 1 PM for a site‑specific outdoor performance by internationally acclaimed interdisciplinary artist Eiko Otake at Woodland Cemetery in Delhi, NY. Known for her evocative “movement‑based, interdisciplinary” practice, Otake activates unique environments—transforming cemeteries and landscapes into thoughtful spaces for shared presence.
Eiko Otake: Delicious Movement Workshop
Delicious Movement Workshops are designed for all people who love to move or who want to love to move with delicious feelings. You don't have to be a dancer to enjoy the experience. The workshops are emphatically noncompetitive and appropriate to all levels of training and ability.
The exercises employ images, body articulation, floor work, and largely slow movement. However, the aim of the workshop is not to teach these. Rather, the participants are encouraged to acquire personal taste and flexible discipline to suit their own moving body. For many participants, seeing movement intimately and being seen moving are a transformative experience, which brings a new appreciation of how "time is not even and space is not empty."
Open Air | Open Movement: Raven Midnight White
Every Sunday at Pillow Fort, starting August 2nd through September 6th, join us on the deck for six weeks of dance and movement workshops and performances, featuring local and internationally recognized artists!
Open Air | Open Movement: Christy Funsch
Every Sunday at Pillow Fort, starting August 2nd through September 6th, join us on the deck for six weeks of dance and movement workshops and performances, featuring local and internationally recognized artists!
Open Air | Open Movement: Heidi Stonier
Every Sunday at Pillow Fort, starting August 2nd through September 6th, join us on the deck for six weeks of dance and movement workshops and performances, featuring local and internationally recognized artists!
Open Air | Open Movement: kris seto
Every Sunday at Pillow Fort, starting August 2nd through September 6th, join us on the deck for six weeks of dance and movement workshops and performances, featuring local and internationally recognized artists!
Open Air | Open Movement: Leighann Kowalsky
Every Sunday at Pillow Fort, starting August 2nd through September 6th, join us on the deck for six weeks of dance and movement workshops and performances, featuring local and internationally recognized artists!
Open Air | Open Movement: clyde fusei forth
Every Sunday at Pillow Fort, starting August 2nd through September 6th, join us on the deck for six weeks of dance and movement workshops and performances, featuring local and internationally recognized artists!
Open Air | Open Movement: lily gold "Sheshi"
Sheshi is a duet between choreographer and interdisciplinary artist lily gold and her mother, with sound support from artist dani derks and surprise guest performers. Tuning to ancestral resilience and reviving parts lost to assimilation, their scores are transparent with tensions and explore family stories they’ve been told, as well as ones their bodies have begun to tell. While Sheshi rekindles reverence for elders it also embraces back-handed humor, working to coax exiled-aggression into balance. Leaning into play to tether the immensity of looking at ancestral trauma through a multi-generational lens, lily and Sheri offer their intimacies for resonance.
This will be Sheshi's first public in-progress showing, join us!
Open Air | Open Movement: zay thurgood & dani derks "between a rock and a soft place" // Christy Funsch "Set List"
Double Feature with works by zay thurgood & dani derks and Christy Funsch
dani and zay take on a brand new collab with their debut performance, between a rock and a soft place. The work will explore the edges of impulse, hope, desire, tension, and inescapable tenderness.
Set List (2025) collides two of Funsch Dance’s works-in-progress from 2024: PastPerfect, created in the spring in San Francisco, and experimental shards made throughout New York State over the summer. Set List careens through the debris fields of the two processes, nourishing vestigial desires from these past explorations. The past processes are embedded in the structure of the new work, where their tattered edges provide undercurrents of tension. Set Listis a work in conversation with its component parts. It values tangents over accumulation.
Open Air | Open Movement: Rashaun Mitchell + Silas Riener "Open Machine"
Through a system of choices, Open Machine explores the survey and navigation of dancing bodies in public spaces. Dancers travel through urban architectures and outdoor, remote environments outfitted with participatory scores. Performers direct and interpret these exterior journeys, layering them into a multi-sensory tapestry of movement, visualization, audio description, and music. Paths converge into a dynamic choreography for the stage that reimagines live gathering, decision-making, and our influence on an increasingly mediated and rapidly changing world.