intimate discord
This workshop disrupts conventions to examine communication patterns related to gender identity and expression. Indeed, in parsing out fragments and experimenting with connections, Kevin Fay shares embodied techniques and strategies to look at how language feels.
Specifically, the workshop shares dance and writing practices that stimulate energy in and between bodies by focusing on how movement and poetry nourish supple, mobile attention and sturdy, tender support. What’s more, by exploring the gaze, pranayama, contact, Authentic Movement, and improvisational scores, this time in the studio proposes sensitive, sensuous ways to read bodies.
In a celebration of bold sensitivity, tenacious focus, and fleshy, full-bodied joy, this workshop gathers bodies to explore what’s in us, between us, and what power comes from us.
holds a B.A. in Dance & Communication Studies from Northwestern University and is a freelance contemporary dance artist based in Brussels, Belgium. He has collaborated on projects with Veli Lehtovaara, Éric Minh Cuong Castaing, Eleanor Bauer, Marc Vanrunxt, Fabrice Samyn, and Olga de Soto. He also contributes to grassroots activist work with State of the Arts. With residency support and a research scholarship from The Flemish Authorities, Kevin has an ongoing research project that interrogates masculinity from queer, feminist perspectives. In this, he organises open, performative reading circles called conversing with masculinity and develops choreography. He has taught professionally in both the US and Europe, and his teaching of ballet is influenced most strongly by Janet Panetta and Zvi Gotheiner.
€ 36/*15 per day
Language: English