west coast contact improvisation JAM
Brenton Cheng
Single Class Teacher
Class Description
How do we make decisions in a dance? Are we driven by the memory of a past movement or shape? A feeling? A desire? Something that intrigues or amuses us? In this class, we’ll bring awareness to what lies underneath our impulses in order to expand beyond our habits. We’ll also play with the rhythms of conscious and subconscious control, and their relationship to the receptive state of “following”.
Biography
Brenton Cheng is a teacher, performer, and director of movement-based performance, as well as an Integrated Movement Studies core faculty and adjunct faculty at the University of San Francisco. In addition to directing his own work, he has performed with internationally-acclaimed Contraband, Zaccho Dance Theater, Angus Balbernie, Kim Epifano, Jo Kreiter & Flyaway Productions, Megan Lowe Dances, and many others, at such places as Jacob's Pillow, Bates Dance Festival, and the Festival d'Avignon, France. He teaches contact improvisation, Laban/Bartenieff Movement Studies, and somatically-based performance skills to professional and non-professional movers in classes and workshops around the world.