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NEW FORMS:
interdisciplinary collaborations
in dance, music, poetry and
the visual/video/electronic
art forms.
In this 2005 IDA workshop students
will explore the interdisciplinary
nature of the collaborative
process by focusing on the creation
of performance works. Each student
will be encouraged to hone their
individual artistic skills through
rigorous attention to and sensory
exploration of time, space,
and force. The framework for
the collaboration will be performance
elements, concepts, and skills
basic to all art forms as well
as the intersection of students’
sociopolitical, aesthetic, and
cultural concerns. Context for
the class will be a brief survey
of the aesthetic thoughts and
works of Cage/ Cunningham, Rauschenberg/
Trisha Brown, R. Ashley, R.
Wilson, B. Viola, as well as
other interdisciplinary artists
and movements (futurists, fluxus,
pop art, the site specific,
butoh).
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June Watanabe,
artistic director, choreographer,
dancer and educator, is recognized
for her starkly focused contemporary
dance theater works and her
one-of-a-kind collaborations
with distinguished artists from
diverse disciplines. Her dance
style embodies a profound emotional
and spiritual sensibility that
is universal to the human spirit
and womanhood. Illuminated by
her Japanese-American heritage,
Watanabe’s work captures
the universality of the human
condition within an Eastern
temporal and spatial framework.
Underlying her work is a concern
with ritualistic and metaphysical
formalities that crosses all
cultures and time -- the ancient
past and the immediacy of the
present.
A graduate of UCLA, she is Professor
at Mills College. In 1980 she
became artistic director of
her own company June Watanabe
In Company is a dance company
committed to the creation of
humanistic works which incorporate
artistic, cultural and historic
elements through an innovative,
interdisciplinary approach.
Using dance as the catalytic
force, Watanabe and her collaborators
transform visual imagery, scenic
design, movement and contemporary
music into a kaleidoscope of
interactive elements.
Teaching Assitants: Christina
Knight,
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