KYLE MARSHALL x The Playground NYC
Company:
The Playground NYC
KYLE MARSHALL x The Playground NYC
Tuesday, 05/16 || 2:00-3:45PM, $6
Gibney Dance: Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center, 280 Broadway, NYC
Entrance 53A Chambers Street
The Playground NYC allows dancers to experience various choreographic styles and ideas, engage with a new community of dancers, and gather resourceful information and inspiration from the array of choreographers involved. In turn, established choreographers are paid for their creative investigations, are given free space to explore new movement with professional dancers, and are provided with the opportunity to establish relationships with new dancers and fellow choreographers.
Class Description:
In this workshop, we will encourage our artistry through the embodiment of improvisational scores and movement phrases based off of Kyle Marshall Choreography's current repertory. Through rigor and curiosity around momentum, power and alignment, we will cultivate warmth in our bodies, develop our sense of rhythm and musicality and hone our physical instrument. Our internal journey and the collective space will be acknowledged through witnessing the experiences of others, while holding time for self reflection and conversations. Through embodying the work, we expand our artistic voice, build community and develop our physical vulnerability.
Bio:
Kyle Marshall is a choreographer, performer, teacher and artistic director of Kyle Marshall Choreography (KMC), a dance company that sees the dancing body as a container of history, an igniter of social reform and a site of celebration. Since inception in 2014, KMC has performed at venues including: Chelsea Factory, BAM Next Wave Festival, Jacob’s Pillow Inside/Out, NJPAC, Entertainment Community Fund Arts Center, Little Island, and Roulette. Kyle has received choreographic and dance film commissions from the Baryshnikov Arts Center, "Dance on the Lawn" Montclair's Dance Festival, Harlem Stage and THE SHED. Recognitions have included a 2018 NY Dance and Performance Juried Bessie Award, a 2020 Dance Magazine Harkness Promise Award and a 2020 Bessie Honoree for his revival of Colored. He has also received choreographic fellowships from Princeton University, Center for Ballet and the Arts at NYU, and residencies from the Monira Foundation, 92nd st Y, Center for Performance Research, American Dance Festival and Bethany Arts Community.
As an educator, Kyle is currently an adjunct professor at NYU’s Open Arts Program and has been a guest artist at Rutgers University, Ailey/Fordham University, and Sarah Lawerence College. Kyle regularly engages students and communities through guest teaching, repertory and creative workshops. Spaces have included Operation Unite NY, Bloomfield College and New Jersey High Schools; Bayonne, County Prep, and Trenton Central. As a performer, Kyle was a member of the Trisha Brown Dance Company, doug elkins choreography etc., and Tiffany Mills Company. He is a graduate of Rutgers University with a BFA in Dance and currently resides in Jersey City.
