Experience a week of dance immersion with Stephan Koplowitz. This one–week workshop is open to all who are interested in dance, creativity and choreography.

Contemporary Dance Summer Intensive
Featuring Stephan Koplowitz
August 6–10, 2012
10–12 noon; 1–4 pm
185/187 Richards Building

Workshop Description

A Choreography Toolbox
A workshop for the creative artist, dancer and educator: jump-starting your creative/creating process

This five day workshop will introduce several methods and means towards inspiring one’s ability to create new movement. The aim is to bring each student into new modalities and pathways of making movement and creating choreography.

We will investigate movement through different lenses and structures, body landscapes, site–specific choreography, text, texttemovement, structured improvisations, and music resources. The aim is to give each participant several strategies and tools for bringing the creative process into focus. For educators, our work will foster new approaches toward teaching composition and creative movement. We will approach our work with a sense of fun and play, with our eyes trained on novelty and productivity.

Participants will receive one hour of Dance 500R (Workshop in Dance) credit.

Stephan Koplowitz

Stephan Koplowitz is an award–winning director/choreographer/media artist known for his work on stage, in film and in creating original, site–specific multimedia works for architecturally significant sites. His site work aims to alter people’s perspectives of place, site, and scale, all infused with a sense of the human condition. Since 1984 he has created 62 works and been awarded 42 commissions and awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship in choreography, a “Bessie” for “sustained achievement” in choreography, and six National Endowment for the Arts choreography fellowships.

In addition to being presented at New York City’s Dance Theater Workshop, the American Dance Festival, “Serious Fun” at Lincoln Center, Jacob’s Pillow, and the Bates Festival, he has worked internationally at the Choreographic Center, Essen, Germany; in Hanoi with visual artist Dao Anh Khanh; and in London, where he won the Time Out Magazine award for “Best Dance Production of 1996.”

He has a connection to Utah having received his MFA in Choreography from the University of Utah department of Modern Dance and in 2010 was the recipient of a Distinguished Alumni Award. Most recently he was invited to create (with architects KBAS) a permanent media installation for The Center for New Media at the Salt Lake City Community College.

He currently serves as dean of The Sharon Disney Lund School of Dance at CalArts. Links to his works are www.koplowitzprojects.com and www.youtube.com/user/lanycart.