Join Dance Workshop at Wayne State University for a community master class with Beth Graczyk and John Gutierrez (G^2) from NYC!

This class is open to the public
$10 class
$5 observation

Old Main, 4th floor Bonstelle Rehearsal Room

Class Description:
Improvisation is as much a style of movement as it is a way to approach the world.​ In this class we will write, sing, move, and use our creativity to share and construct performance based in structured improvisation. We will draw from what is always there (the present moment) and what we find (our history) to generate and explore material stemming from the most expansive source of information we have access to, our individual selves. We will utilize the energy generated to find unusual, yet natural portals into an infinite range of possibilities within our imagination. The culmination of our learning together will allow us to craft real-time choreography malleable to each student’s unique vision.


More about G^2:
G^2 (Gutierrez & Graczyk) have primarily independent performance histories, and met doing a series of projects with the feath3r theory from 2014-2016. They have launched G^2 as a collaborative platform for them to explore co-teaching, and co-generating performance work together. They aim to generate practices together that speak to ways in which their rigorous physical expressions can counter, challenge and blend with one another. In the more subtle and complex space of their bodies, John and Beth explore both identity and post-identity, where the individual labels that are afforded or placed on either of them, have the potential to become blurred with each other and the audience, even for a moment.