Øjeblikket / The Moment
Improvisational Scores for Ensemble Composition & Performance
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Excited for this new opportunity to add more dimension to our CI dancing! For my 3 sessions, I'm using the name "Øjeblikket", and will bring material for group compositional scores, deep solo explorations, and "art trip" creative movement structures so we can build living art together. The weekly lab continues throughout the year with various facilitators.
My influences for this approach to body-based art making are the "Moment's Notice" improvised performance series in Berkeley, California in the 2010's; also ensemble practices with AXIS Dance Company when I was a professional contemporary dancer with them 2009-2015; also the performance scores I learned with Scott Wells as part of his CI-based professional company from 2008-2018.
We will have time to try out different group scores and also to witness each other and discuss what we see, feel and find impactful in the dance.
[Photo by David Papas for Scott Wells & Dancers. Pictured are Sebastian Grubb and Shira Yaziv.]
WHERE
Forsøgsstationen
Sønder Blvd. 81, Copenhagen, DK
SCHEDULE
17.00 - 19.00: Ensemble Development, Score Laboratory
19.00 - 20.00: Witnessing & Discussion
TEACHER BIO
Sebastian Grubb is an award-winning dance artist and movement coach based in Copenhagen and California. He choreographed, performed and toured contemporary dance works throughout the U.S. and overseas from 2007-2019. This included 10 years as a principal dancer and assistant teacher for Scott Wells & Dancers, a modern dance-theatre performance company centering athletic Contact Improvisation in its artmaking. It also included 6 years as a principal dancer and teaching artist with AXIS Dance Company, a modern dance repertory company whose work has helped revolutionize the professional dance world by resourcing the perspectives and contributions of physically disabled artists.
After a multi-year mentorship with Frey Faust, Sebastian became a certified Axis Syllabus Teacher in 2011, and began teaching biomechanics and functional anatomy principles within a dance context. In 2018 he founded Agile Beast, an updated fitness training program that integrates modern biomechanics with foundational movement patterns. And in 2019 he co-founded Spiral Camp with Shira Yaziv. Spiral Camp teaches movement and dance skills within a playful learning environment that empowers students and builds community.
Learn more about Sebastian’s dance work and teaching at https://www.sebastian.fit/bodywagging.