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A Studio Current SEASON OF WORKSHOPS

BETH GRACZYK
Nov 13
Tues 6:30-8:30 Pay-what-you-can

~November & December~

Studio Current is in the heart of the pike/pine corridor of Seattles Capitol Hill Neighborhood

MON NOV 12, 6-8PM & WED NOV 14, 6-8PM Rae Diamond Creating in Natural Time This two day workshop offers tools & perspectives for working within the rhythms of nature. Both classes include engaging lectures and creative explorations through writing, drawing, movement & sound. $15 drop-in, $30 for both days

THURSDAYS, NOV 15 & 29, 6-8pm Alicia Mullikin Dancing With Gravity Using somatic practices such as core-strengthening and alignment to support ones expression when moving through the oor. Liveaccompaniment for both classes. $$15 drop-in, $30 for both days

Audiences invited to see artworks becoming.

-Discussions -Lectures -Presentations -Works-in-Progress -and more....

LiLLYPad Nov & Dec

$5 suggested donation at the door. AT 8pm, unless otherwise noted!

NOVEMBER
SAT NOV 17: Stephanie Skura TUES NOV 20: Beth Graczyk---7-9pm SAT NOV 24: Rae Diamond SAT NOV 30: Kris Wheeler & VD

DECEMBER
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 17, 12 - 6 Betty Jo Costanzo Action/Reaction Drawing + Painting to Moving Images & Sounds This 6hr workshop will throw you right into action: no time to think, no time to plan. Registration required! $$40 participant fee * Special Location FRIDAY NOV 16, 7-10PM Stephanie Skura COURAGE, MULTIPLICITY & THE SUBCONSCIOUS New experiments in nding surprising pathways between moving & writing. Between the specic & the abstract, between the conscious & the subconscious, between witnessing and participating. $20 participation fee SAT DEC 1: Amelia Reeber PAIGE BARNES---TBA FRI DEC 14: Vida Rose FRI DEC 21: Jodi Sandford + Alice Gosti SAT DEC 29: Mini Muck!

Sat Nov 17, 3-7pm & Sun Nov 18, 3-7pm Amelia Reeber beautyCOMINGHOMEshitdancestoriescreate Through movement, writing, inner guidance & physical response, come back to the self. With this contact and insight, well generate and dance in the mystery of the individual and group experience. Come be a part of the magnicent conversation! $30 drop-in, $60 for both days

MONDAY NOVEMBER 19, 7-9pm Syniva Whitney Gender Tender A movement workshop exploring ideas of gender, impersonation, shifting and realness in every shape and size of body. Using: fancy dancing, sports drills, lipsyncing, improvisational scores, meditation, and pop culture inspired choreography. $$15 participant fee

WEDNESDAY NOV 28, 7-10PM & FRIDAY NOV 30, 5-7pm Kris Wheeler & Vanessa DeWolf Solo/Duet/Ensemble 2-session that culminate in a showing in LiLLYPad #7. Tools to enter into the paradox of sustaining a continuity of presence while engaging the complexities of perception, imagination & relationship. All experiences welcome $$45 participant fee, no drop-ins

December dates TBA Vida Rose Imaginary Shape Kinetics This class will combine concepts from Taichi, belly dance and the visual arts. Wear clothes to move and play in and bring a sketchbook. This is a truly inclusive program, all ages and all levels of everything welcome! $$30 participant fee

Saturday Dec 1, 11am - 3pm Paige Barnes Directing Impulse $$30 participant fee

December 26 - December 28 Vanessa DeWolf MINI MUCK! $$50 participant fee

December 10 & 17, Mondays 6-10pm Jodi Sandford (Alices Mom) COLOR AND EMOTION The workshop will be hands on and show and tell. Color is a sensation, it is perceived, cognized, and categorized as it reaches linguistic form. We will focus on different aspects of color such as: art, architecture, music, culinary arts, philosophy, psychology, biology, and linguistics $60 participant fee

DESCRIPTIONS OF NOV - DEC WORKSHOPS

RAE DIAMOND
Monday Nov 12 & Wednesday Nov 14, 68pm, $15 drop-in, $30 for both days Creating in Natural Time This two-day workshop offers tools & perspectives for working within the rhythms of nature. Well explore how time placement affects creativity, & how to constructively utilize our placement within time for the greatest effect on our creative process, including the sharing of our creations. Both classes include engaging lectures, and creative explorations through writing, drawing, movement & sound. Students will receive take-home materials in both classes, which are suitable for artists in all disciplines. The rst class explores the yearly cycle of the seasons, which affect us all in both universal and individual ways. Each season offers different opportunities for tapping into our creativity, & when used consciously, we can work effectively in our media year-round. Students will develop a deeper understanding of their own individual experience of the seasons, & learn how to work freely within the bounds their own individual rhythm. The second class explores the monthly cycle of the moon, well known for its effects on tides, weather, farming & mood. Its no stretch of the imagination to then consider the effects of the moon on the creative process. We will explore the four phases of the moon, & apply them directly to the creative process.We will work with emotional explorations & shifting techniques as a means of unlocking & directing creative ow. Consider this class if you are aware of a more frequent mood &/or creative slump period.

SYNIVA WHITNEY
Monday November 19, $15 participant fee Gender Tender A movement workshop exploring ideas of gender, impersonation, shifting and "realness" in every shape and size of body. We will investigate using the following techniques: warm-up, "fancy dancing", sports drills, lip syncing, improvisational scores, meditation and pop culture inspired choreography. Every body is welcome at any experience level. This workshop is a safe space for all body presentations. Gender Tender celebrates genderqueer, queer and trans bodies. Allies Welcome.

KRIS WHEELER & VANESSA DEWOLF

Wednesday Nov 28, 710pm & Friday November 30, 57pm $45 participant fee, no drop-ins. Solo/Duet/Ensemble This 2-session workshop culminates in a Friday evening informal performance. Kris and Vanessa will offer tools to enter into the paradox of sustaining the continuity of presence while engaging with the complexities of perception, imagination and relationship. Harmony and counterpoint arises spontaneously and playful in all its beautiful complexity. Kris and Vanessa have maintained a weekly studio lab of movement, writing and philosophical dialogue for the past 8 years and will share some of their treasured practices in this workshop.

PAIGE BARNES
Saturday December 1, 11am 3pm $30 participant fee Directing Impulse

ALICIA MULLIKIN

Thursdays Nov 15 & 29, 68pm, $15 drop-in, $30 for both days Dancing With Gravity This is a two day dance workshop that will use somatic practices such as core strengthening and alignment to support one's expression when moving through the floor. It will contain a vigorous floor warm up and standing exercises. We will expand on common practices by taking standard contemporary vocabulary off balance. You are welcomed to take one or both classes. This course is an exploration of gravity within the context of contemporary dance. We will expand on basic floor work techniques to emphasize weight, momentum, and rebound as initiation points for floor work. We will fall through space using gravity as a tool instead of a hindrance. We will explore both giving into gravity and resisting it. On the second day we will investigate these practices as they relate to contemporary partnering. We will use contact improvisation to develop a greater understanding of how to negotiate lifts through body communication. The workshop will culminate in a series of choreographic phrases that further explore and expand on the concepts emphasized in this class. Special guest musician Daniel Mullikin will accompany both classes with his experimental electronic cello. Join us for fun and exploration

VIDA ROSE
December dates TBA $30 participant fee Imaginary Shape Kinetics Will combine concepts from Tai-chi, belly dance and the visual arts. Wear clothes to move and play in and bring a sketchbook. This is a truly inclusive program, all ages and all levels of everything welcome!

JODI SANDFORD
DEC 10 & 17, Mondays 610pm $60 participant fee Color and Emotion

STEPHANIE SKURA
Friday November 16, 710pm, $20 participant fee Courage, Multiplicity & the Subconscious New experiments in finding surprising pathways between moving & writing: Moving between the specific & the abstract, between narrative & texture, between the conscious & the subconscious, between witnessing & participating. Moving amongst the multiplicity of characters that co-exit within us in all their glory, darkness, wisdom, & incongruity. Being carried along buoyantly by something other than narrative & conscious psychology by undercurrents of texture, by not-yet-articulated ideas, by wafts of the indescribable. Honoring the infinite complexity & depth of each moment.

BETTY JO COSTANZO

Saturday November 17, 12 -6pm, $40 participant fee, registration required!!!! Action/Reaction: Drawing + Painting to Moving Images & Sounds This 6 hour workshop will throw you right into action: no time to think, no time to plan. With moving images and sounds already in action we will begin by shifting the mind and body thru a series of led exercises (butoh drawing). We will then move directly into the physical artmaking process and like a dance this call and response will engage all the senses. After the work session is complete we will have time to look, reflect and discuss our experience and findings. Come prepared with all of your materials and props (more info about materials provided when you sign up for this workshop).

What is color really about? Do we really know? What colors do we connect with specific emotions? My aim is to advance color awareness, and to research peoples conception and use of color in language and art. I propose a workshop that involves categorization exercises and games to understand the commonality of human approach to color. We will name colors, and talk about what their prototypes are. We will talk about what colors are ugly and what colors are beautiful, and how they make us feel. We will identify primary colors in contemporary color theory (i.e., they are not red, blue, and yellow). I hope to create curiosity about what our minds do with color, by creating color illusions. The workshop will be hands on and show and tell. The participants will be asked bring a series of things. Color is a sensation. It is perceived, cognized, and categorized before reaching a linguistic form. Color terms are metaphors of that process. Color as a pigment or a material is very different from color as light. If we consider color from various fields or frames, such as: art, architecture, music, culinary arts, philosophy, psychology, biology, physics, or linguistics, psycho- linguistics, and cognitive sciences, we will be focusing on different aspects of color. The common denominator, is that color is of fundamental importance. Color is an experience; color represents itself and its opposite (or complement); color is universal and at the same time culturally significant. Color is fundamentally omnipresent in our lives, and yet our awareness of color is limited. Lets see how we attach emotion to color, and how we can agree on how to call it and how to use it.

VANESSA DEWOLF
Wednesday December 26 Friday December 28 10am 1pm & 36pm, $50 participant fee Mini Muck! In the morning well activate and generate, in the afternoon youll have time to develop material.This workshop is about getting messy in creative processes through drawing, moving, writing, reading, discussions, collages, improvisation and other processes.

AMELIA REEBER:

Saturday November 17, 37pm & Sunday November 18, 37pm $30 drop-in, $60 for both days beautyCOMINGHOMEshitdancestoriescreate Through movement, writing, inner guidance & physical response, come back to the self. With this contact and insight, well generate and dance in the mystery of the individual and group experience. Come be a part of the magnificent conversation!