INGRID KAPTEYN
INGRID KAPTEYN is an international performer and creative collaborator with a BFA in Dance and The Martha Hill Prize from The Juilliard School. She was the Resident Director of Sleep No More NYC in 2024, and she has performed in dance and theater productions with Punchdrunk International (The Burnt City in London, Sleep No More Shanghai (original cast), and Sleep No More NYC), MacArthur Fellow Martha Clarke, The Metropolitan Opera, Brian Brooks Moving Company, Danielle Russo Performance Projects, Wally Cardona, Hilary Easton, Compagnie Yōkaï, Kelly Ashton Todd, Marla Phelan, Assaf Salhov, David Norsworthy, and Kristen Carcone, as well as in live immersive events for Valentino, Anheuser-Busch, AMC, and Disney. As a choreographer and director, Ingrid has co-created, produced, and performed dystopian danceplays in New York, Chicago, London, and Shanghai with Welcome to Campfire (www.welcometocampfire.com). Ingrid has taught around the world, including for Springboard Danse, Juilliard Global Ventures/Nord Anglia Education (in Shanghai, Dubai, Switzerland, Qatar, and NYC), New York University’s School of Medicine, UNCSA, Playwrights Horizons, The Alvin Ailey School, Gibney Dance, Peridance, and Princeton, Bucknell, Rutgers, and Cornell Universities.
PHYSICAL STORYTELLING
with Ingrid Kapteyn
Class will orient around structuring the body and destructuring the mind, to free up access to imagination and intuition and to shorten the distance from impulse to action. Rigorous explorations of tension and intention will pair with storytelling exercises built around making and bypassing choice. What is the relationship between an idea and a movement? How do we, as dancers, align what we want to "say" with how we express it?