west coast contact improvisation JAM
Margaret Paek
Single Class Teacher
Class Description
How can perspective shift a dance? How do habits affect the whole? How do we build community through practice? In this class, we will use Ensemble Thinking™ as a lens for inquiry into Contact Improvisation. Ensemble Thinking™ is a set of improvisational, compositional, relational, group scores that build attunement and refine our ability to perceive, initiate, and support collective action. We will explore how our contact duets and sensibilities can be challenged and deepened through ensemble explorations. We will bring more consciousness into our relational choices as we practice composing in real time, experiment with perspective, and play with possibilities.
Biography
Margaret Sunghe Paek, a collaborative dance artist, mixed-race, middle-child, former gymnast, mother, maker, educator, performer, and community builder, finds connection in liminality and has been influenced by deep relationships with the Resident Artists/Dancing Mamas, UhOh Trio, Street Dance Activism, Lower Left, and her family trio. Margaret began teaching CI in 1998 in San Diego. Since then, she has taught at Movement Research NYC and colleges and studios across the world, including in Sweden, Hungry, and Germany. Currently, she collaborates with Lower Left organizing the Ensemble Thinking™ Certification program and teaches dance at Lawrence University in Appleton, WI.