Open Air | Open Movement
Summer Dance Workshops and Performances
on the Pillow Fort Dance Deck
Photo by Leighann Kowalsky
Pillow Fort Arts Center presents Open Air | Open Movement, a series of intimate dance and movement workshops and performances taking place on its outdoor dance platform on Saturdays from July 19th - September 6th. This series will include beginner-friendly workshops open to all bodies and showings of works-in-progress, new creations developed during artist residencies, or fresh takes on old works. Stretching over eight weeks, we invite you to join for as many weeks Open Air | Open Movement as possible to experience different takes and approaches to dance, movement and improvisation from both local and internationally renowned artists. We hope this will be an evolving space for movement practice, experimentation, and performance.
We’re excited to support and celebrate local artists such as Rashaun Mitchell + Silas Reiner, lily gold, Christy Funsch, Zaybra Thurgood and Dani Derks, and clyde fusei forth and deepen connections with past artists-in-residence Raven White and Kay Ottinger, who previously led improvisational workshops at Pillow Fort. Jeremy Hale will also teach an introductory Brazilian Zouk workshop infused with principals from contact improvisation.
This project is made possible with funds from NYS DanceForce. The NYS DanceForce is a partnership program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature.