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Parts of Dance II, 2023, lecture performance, photo by Anton Avdieiev.

Choreography of Care: Movement Workshop with Yon Natalie Mik

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14:30 - 16:00
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Led by multidisciplinary artist and dancer Yon Natalie Mik, this workshop engages with her choreographic practice of collective movement and sculptural paper notations, which serve as abodes for spirits.

Mik will lead with her approach to tuning into our bodies and the environment, encouraging reflection on how we can document and nurture mutual care. Through moving together and translating kinetic thinking into tangible paper sculptures, participants will explore a new perspective on their physical self-awareness, their relation to space, and what it means to move together.

Parts of Dance I, courtesy of the artist
Photo by Joe Smith.
Photo by Joe Smith.
Photo by Joe Smith.
Photo by Joe Smith.
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Grounded in Muism (Korean shamanism), Yon crafts expanded choreographies that foster spiritual dialogues with ourselves and the bodies around us, such as the living, the chosang (ancestral spirits), and the shin (spirits of places, objects, and natural phenomena). Yon looks at dance from a pre-dualistic perspective in which aspects of our material and spiritual selves are not fragmented. The manifestation of physical thinking expands beyond a strict physicalization of dance through non-autonomous and disembodied compositions that resist choreographic discipline.

Yon’s expanded choreographies challenge the conventional understanding of choreography—largely influenced by the Western theatrical dance canon since the 16th century—which typically delineates a system for documenting or arranging bodily movement. This limited view has often skewed dancerly knowledge with biases such as ableism, racism, and sexism. Yon's approach promotes choreographic diversity, subverting the notion of dance as purely physical. This is expressed through improvisational movements, spoken poetry, and sculptural dance notations.

The workshop is inclusive and welcomes adults of all genders, races, abilities, and dance experience levels. All materials will be provided, as well as light refreshments.

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