Cooperative Practices: Bebe Miller and K.J. Holmes@ Bearnstow, Maine, USA

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produced by Marlon Barrios Solano
dance-tech@ BEARNSTOW, on Parker Pond, Mount Vernon, Maine (USA).

Marlon Barrios Solano interviews Bebe Miller and K.J. Holmes in the context of teaching "Cooperative Practices: Body-Mind Centering® and Creative Process", August 22–28, 2010
From the Bearstow Website:
KJ Holmes and Bebe Miller will collaborate in leading this workshop, laying a groundwork of interdependent elements drawn from their approaches to creative practice. We’ll use K.J.’s application of Body-Mind Centering® (BMC)* as a lens to creative process, with Bebe’s choreographic strategies for embodied awareness in dance making. Designed as a creative retreat, this week provides time for guided practice, individual exploration and group dialogue.
http://www.bearnstow.org/

Each day will contain a guided warm-up, exploration of BMC® principles with K.J. and choreographic strategies with Bebe, time for individual practice and reflection along with time to enjoy the Bearnstow environment. We invite you to translate between land and lake, artful-ness and mindful-ness, and note the information that rises from a canoe stroke, a sunset, a conversation as well as our dancing.

BEBE MILLER, choreographer, has been making dances for over 25 years and established Bebe Miller Company in 1985. Currently serving on the Boards of Bearnstow, Danspace Project and Dance Theater Workshop, she resides in Columbus, Ohio and has been a Professor in Dance at The Ohio State University since 2000.

K.J. HOLMES is a dance artist who has been exploring improvisation as process and performance since 1981. She is a graduate of The School for Body-Mind Centering (1999) and currently is adjunct faculty at NYU Experimental Theater Wing, continues to teach at Movement Research, and is exploring the relationship between movement and language, and the body and the earth in her choreographies and theater work.

Body-Mind Centering® (BMC) is an eclectic and dynamic approach to somatic training and re-education through systems development and evolution developed by Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen.