Breaking Ground – A Public Charrette

DANCING IN THE STREETS
Breaking Ground – A Public Charrette

Two FREE Interdisciplinary Site-Specific Workshops for
Choreographers, Dancers, and Architects

Led by
Joanna Haigood

Federal Hall National Memorial
Thursday, November 12, 10 am – 2 pm
Or
Friday, November 13, 10 am – 2 pm

Advanced Registration Required

Breaking Ground – A Public Charrette is a site-specific choreography workshop that will be held in one of New York City’s most intriguing sites. Led by nationally acclaimed choreographer Joanna Haigood, the workshop offers participants a unique opportunity to work across disciplines to explore movement composition within the context of architecture, history, and public spaces. Haigood offers tools to interact with this historic landmark and guides participants to create short studies using their own movement language and sensibilities. Participants will discuss architecture as object, its function and design, and its role as container of history, as metaphor and as a stage. The 4-hour workshop is modeled after the 5-day charrette process, which Joanna Haigood developed for Breaking Ground – A Dance Charrette, Dancing in the Streets’ critically acclaimed series that “raised the bar for site-specific dance in this city” (Gay City News).

THE WORKSHOP
• A guided tour of Federal Hall
• An overview of site-specific work
• Choreographers, dancers, and architects work together in small teams to create short movement studies in response to the site

TO REGISTER:
The workshop is free, but advance registration is required.
• Each workshop is limited to 25 participants
• Slots will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis
• To register, go to:
http://www.nycharities.org/beta/EventLevels.aspx?ETID=652
• Please specify which day you would like to take the workshop.

Registration begins October 15th and ends November 5th
Upon registration, you will receive an automatic confirmation email from the registration service provider, NYCharites.org. Shortly after this confirmation, you will receive detailed information from Dancing in the Streets, including travel directions.