Tag: Kristi Faulkner Dance

DITA, Falling and Rolling with guest artist Kristi Faulkner

January 5, 2019

Join us in welcoming Kristi Faulkner / Kristi Faulkner Dance
Falling and Rolling
Sunday March 24th, 2019
4-5:45 pm
Meijer-Royce Center for Dance
341 Ellsworth Ave SW
Grand Rapids, MI 49503

Class Description: Falling and Rolling

Explore sensation and surrender while learning to make friends with gravity. Dance is physics – we will explore the ways in which momentum and surface area can help us achieve efficiency moving in and out of the floor. While maintaining a continuous flow of energy and efficient use of muscle tone, we will hover on the edges of suspension and surrender to impulse.

Kristi Faulkner is the Director of Kristi Faulkner Dance – a queer-identified contemporary dance company based in Detroit that dares to be different. Performing everywhere from warehouses to community centers, from museums to the middle of the street, Faulkner believes in making dance accessible and empowering audiences to connect with their world. Her work has been commissioned and presented throughout Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, Minnesota, Missouri, Kentucky and New York. Faulkner is a 2018 Maggie Allesee Choreography Award finalist for “Women’s Work” and a 2016 finalist for “OBject/obJECT”. She received the 2017 MCACA New Leader Award. Her winning Knight Arts Challenge project to engage and inspire LGBTQ youth through performance and storytelling titled “Not In My House” premiered October 2018. KristiFaulknerDance.com

Pre-registration
$17 Advanced General
$15 Advanced Professional/Dance Educator
$13 Seasonal advanced ($65)
Pre-registration provided by ArtPeers: https://artpeers.org/pre-registration/
Day of Class
$20 Drop-in
For dancers 16+ years old ~ for more information contact Amy Wilson at [email protected]

DITA, Summer Workshop w/guest artist Kristi Faulkner

May 26, 2017

Join us in welcoming Kristi Faulkner to the Annex
Monday June 19th & 26th
7-8:45pm
Wealthy Theatre Annex
1110 Wealthy St SE
Grand Rapids, MI 49506
$15/$12 students (per class)

June 19th
Contemporary Floor Work
Based on the idea that the floor is an active partner in our dancing, we will seek to “make friends” with the floor and embrace the unwavering support it can offer. Participants will connect with a sense of weight through earthbound phrases and guided improvisation, developing an intimate connection to the floor by investigating multiple points of contact for achieving efficiency moving in and out of the floor.

June 26th
Falling and Rolling
Explore sensation and surrender while learning to make friends with gravity. Dance is physics – we will explore the ways in which momentum and surface area can help us achieve efficiency moving in and out of the floor. While maintaining a continuous flow of energy and efficient use of muscle tone, we will hover on the edges of suspension and surrender to impulse.

Kristi Faulkner (Founder/Artistic Director of Kristi Faulkner Dance) is a choreographer, performer, educator and arts advocate. Based in Detroit, she creates highly physical and humorously theatrical work that embodies difference and challenges gender roles. Community engagement is integral to her artistic practice. Through workshops, lecture demonstrations, and community-based projects, Kristi pursues her mission of making dance visceral, thought-provoking, and accessible. Her work has been commissioned and presented throughout Michigan, Ohio, Illinois and New York. She holds an MFA in choreography/performance from SUNY Brockport and is part time faculty at Bowling Green State University.

transcend: an evening of music and dance

January 21, 2016

1273572_10151992170680419_1755055205_oSaturday, Feb. 13th, Wealthy Theatre (1130 Wealthy SE, Grand Rapids, MI) hosts a very special evening of music and dance, on the weekend of Valentine’s Day.

ArtPeers and Dance in the Annex (DITA) present “transcend,” one night only, featuring nationally renown choreographers and dancers, along with Grand Rapids’ preeminent contemporary dance collaborative, DITA.

11081345_10153210557016661_3041666028668420469_nEvent listing: wealthytheatre.org/transcend

This event is made possible by the Robert D. Mieras Fund for Dance and Music, which supported the involvement of the national and local artists; and New Holland Brewing, which supported the venue for the event. Several popular beers from New Holland Brewing will be available at the cash bar, at Wealthy Theatre.

12120065_10153675223534841_5127724408296350132_o“In addition to featuring some of the most important artists in America, ‘transcend’ is a Valentine’s event for all,” says ArtPeers co-founder Erin Wilson. “Almost half of the artists and crew happen to identify as LGBT, and everyone else is a longtime ally.”

The event is “for all” in other ways, too, according to DITA Artistic Director Amy Wilson.

“DITA’s work is for everyone, no matter how familiar with dance you may be,” (Amy) Wilson says. “It’s IMG_0011part rock concert, part roller coaster, part film festival, and part performing arts.

“At the same time, those who are familiar with professional dance… will be very happy that these choreographers are coming here.”

Nic Lincoln (Minneapolis, MN) says his work “takes inspiration from pop culture and visual art” to voice his activism through dance. Lincoln 12143208_880730625338653_4566044828660889719_nhas choreographed for the James Sewell Ballet for nine years, and worked with Dayton Ballet, Cleveland San Jose Ballet, Grand Rapids Ballet. He is a proud recipient of a McKnight Artist Fellowship for Dance and has been named “Best Dancer” by the Minneapolis City Pages as well as one of three “Artists Who We Love” by MN Monthly magazine. He was nominated for a Sage award and recently named one of 25 to Watch by Dance Magazine. As a dance artist and activist, Lincoln has collaborated with the Human Rights Campaign, OutFront MN and Queertopia.

E15 KFD 0144Kristi Faulkner, Artistic Director of Kristi Faulkner Dance, says she “strives to create work that generates meaningful conversation and social exchange, blurring the lines between audience and performer and exploring unconventional performance spaces.” Faulkner’s work has been presented in numerous venues throughout Michigan, Ohio, Illinois, and New York including the Center for Performance Research, Chez Bushwick’s Kinetic Cinema series, Dixon Place, Going Dutch Festival in Chicago, Alternative Art Association, HPOP Festival, Sidewalk Festival of Performing Arts, Niagra Fringe Festival, image1the University of Rochester, The College at Brockport, Michigan State University, Wayne State University and Bowling Green State University (BGSU).

IMG_5664Additional choreography and dance featured include works by Amy Wilson, Marlee Grace and Rachel Finan. Short films to be presented by internationally regarded choreographer Carolyn Pavlik, and Grand Rapids filmmakers DJ Viernes and John Hanson. Music to be performed by expunk, Casey Stratton (piano) and Heather Baker-Jackson (cello).