WORKSHOP

MADE BY WOMEN WORKSHOP

Saturday, October 7th
10am-4pm
Gibney Dance (280 Broadway)

As part of the MADE BY WOMEN Festival, Dual Rivet is excited to add a 6-hour, high intensity workshop comprised of the key technical and theatrical elements the company works with. This year’s Faculty includes Dual Rivet, Isadora Wolfe, and Ke’Ron Wilson! The workshop will dive deep into somatic practices, floorwork technique, theatrical/character development, improvisation and end with partnering rep and conversation. This workshop is designed to push our understanding of our physicality as movers, explore our technique through physical communication, and delve into exciting character development. We are so excited to share our highly physical, contemporary movement with the community.

MEET THE FACULTY

  • DUAL RIVET - Jessica Smith & Chelsea Ainsworth

    Dual Rivet is a women-led dance company focused on creating and sharing highly physical contemporary dance to a wide audience. Based in NYC, Dual Rivet creates work for stage and film that exchanges a cinematic and visceral language to influence both platforms. Directors Jessica Smith and Chelsea Ainsworth have been making and presenting work since 2017. They have performed and set work at Festival PRISMA (Panama), Centro Cultural Los Talleres (Mexico), Oklahoma International Dance Festival, Barnard College/Columbia University, West End Theatre, Kittery Maine, Musikfest Pennsylvania, Peridance Capezio Center, CreateArt, Arts On Site and many more. The company teaches a myriad of classes, throughout the United States and internationally, with an emphasis on contemporary partnering and floorwork. Dual Rivet is currently on faculty at The Juilliard School, Gibney, Peridance, SUNY Purchase and Adelphi University.

  • ISADORA WOLFE

    Isadora Wolfe is a performer, teacher and movement director.  She is the Associate Artistic Director of Punchdrunk’s Sleep No More.  Isadora collaborated and performed with makers such as Johannes Wieland (Kassel, Germany; original cast member of johannes wieland), Martha Clarke (Garden of Earthly Delights, Angel Reapers), Richard Jones (The Hairy Ape), David Auburn (Berkshire Theatre Group's Dracula and Skin of Our Teeth), Maxine Doyle and Gerald Casel.  Isadora is adjunct faculty at The Juilliard School, and has taught at Bard College at Simon’s Rock, Alvin Ailey II, Jacob's Pillow, Marymount Manhattan, NYU's Tisch School, Rutger's University and Springboard Dance Festival; and is a selected artist of upcoming Springboard X in NYC.

  • KE'RON WILSON

    Ke’ron J. Wilson (she/they) is a community-oriented movement artist, choreographer, and poet currently based out of New York City. She graduated from Sam Houston State University with a BFA in Dance, and has since presented work as both choreographer and dancer across Texas and New York City. Most recently, her work has been selected for support by WADEintoActivism / NYU Tisch’s PRIDE residency (2023) and the Emerging Choreographer’s Series (2022 & 2023). She's currently investigating the bridge between art and affinity spaces, which bring together people with shared identities, as tools for healing, activism, and liberation.