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Public performances and workshops

Upcoming Programs

 

Pam Quinn is a middle-aged White woman of European descent. She has short brown hair to her chin-line, parted in the right side, and blue eyes. She is smiling warmly at the viewer, wearing a dark top, red lipstick and red earrings. The photo background is light blue.

Choreo Lab
Winter 2024

 

Dance artist with Parkinson’s disease Pamela G. Quinn is the New Jersey Health Foundation disabled dance artist invited to IDC’s Choreo Lab for Winter 2024. She has been a professional dancer since the 1980s in both San Francisco and New York City, most recently producing new choreographies and dance films for dancers and community members with Parkinson’s disease. A second disabled dance artist to be announced in Fall 2023. More information coming soon!

Past Programs

 

ChoreoLab-Jerron Herman is an African American male dancer with Cerebral Palsy; he was one of two invited disabled choreographers invited for professional development at IDC’s Choreo Lab project in Winter 2023. He is jumping vertically in the air, with one leg and his foot, both pointing downward, with the other leg raised at hip height to the side, with his foot flexed. One arm is pointing opposite his hip-height leg and the other arm and hand are curled into his chest, due to his neurological impairment. He is wearing an orange costume, with shorts and a T-shirt. The background is black with a square patch of light directly below him. Photo by Maria Baranova.
Anna Gichan and Elisa Hernandez are both deaf/hard-of-hearing dancers. Elisa Hernandez is a Latina woman with long brown hair. Both dancers are dancing in a work-in-progress titled Meet me at the river’s edge, choreographed by Anna Gichan at the Choreo Lab residency. Both dancers posing, upstage of another dancer between them, mid-movement in an upside-down pose. Both dancers’ poses are also reflected on the lit black floor. They are both wearing light green short pants and a flesh-colored leotard. The middle dancer, morgaine ann de leonardis, is laying down diagonally on the black floor, wearing a bright red short coat and flesh-colored tights. She has long brown hair and her head is curled up to look at a bouquet of red roses on her lap with an intensely-puzzled look on her face. The floor surrounding her also has many red roses sprinkled throughout. Photo by Elyze Mertz.

Choreo Lab: Professional Development informal performance
(January 20, 2023)

 

Ten individuals are clustered together at the end of a “Silent Flight” performance, an improvisational score derived from a large group work called Conference of the Birds, from a Sufic epic poem. From Boston Massachusetts, ANIKAYA Dance Theater was invited to provide a workshop for deaf and disabled members of the Rutgers University community; they also invited workshop members to participate in the “Silent Flight” improvisational dance score in Fall 2021. This dance score is meant to work directly with people with multiple disabilities. The setting is the Voorhees Mall sidewalk at the College Avenue campus of Rutgers University-New Brunswick. The background is a brick wall of Scott Hall and the photograph is framed by two tree branches filled with late afternoon light streaming through the green leaves. In the background are some red folding chairs for audience members. The dancers are clustered in a group, and all persons have their eyes closed, as they have been directed to be deeply engaged in sensory touch; each dancer is connected to at least one or more dancers close to them. Some of the dancers are looking down to more deeply engage in their sensations of touch and connection. Two dancers self-identify as deaf/hard-of-hearing, including a young woman South Asian descent standing the back of the group. Another dancer on the left side of the group, a woman with brown hair parted in the middle, self-identifies as bi-polar and queer; in front of this dancer is her partner, a queer woman with a full-size body and bald head, self-identifies with a mobility-challenging disability , and she is riding her electric scooter. Other dancers include the director of ANIKAYA, Wendy Jehlen (“Jay-lynn”); she is wearing purple pants in the center of the group. With Wendy are other members of the ANIKAYA group, including a man in the direct front of the group who self-identifies as Indonesian ethnicity. IDC Director Jeff Friedman is a man of European-descent wearing glasses and a white shirt. IDC Assistant Director Natalie Schultz-Kahway is directly behind Wendy Jehlen.

ANIKAYA Dance Theater Residency
(October 15, 2021)

“Silent Flight” workshop for people with disabilities
“Silent Flight” performances (4)
Voorhees Mall, College Avenue Campus, Rutgers University

Two women sitting in wheelchairs are perched on a flat platform at the top of a larger ramp. They are both members of the artistic team of Kinetic Light disability arts ensemble, invited for a six-day residency by IDC at Rutgers University-New Brunswick in Fall 2022. The background is a projection of stars in a night sky. The woman in front is Laurel Lawson; she is a white woman with short cropped hair, dyed blue. She is wearing a gray tank top and black pants. The woman behind her is Alice Sheppard, a bi-racial woman with short blond curly hair, wearing the same costume. Both women are still, posing in side-view, one behind the other, mirroring the same movement: a downward curving arc of both arms, one behind and one forward of their torsos. They appear to be preparing for a powerful next move down the ramp. Photograph is by Jaqui Medlock.
Laurel Lawson, a member of the Kinetic Light disability arts ensemble, is a woman wearing a tight body-fitted blue bodysuit is perched on her knees, surrounded by her wheelchair. The background is a swirling image of lines overlaid on a similarly swirling multicolored blue sky above a landscape of bulging black hills. The dancer is perched on part of a ramp and she is gesturing intensely with her right arm thrust forward on an upward angle and her left arm thrust back on upward angle behind her, forming a V-shape. Her forward arm is pointing directly to an empty wheelchair, perched precariously at the forward trajectory of the ramp. Photo by Jaqui Medlock.

DESCENT, with Kinetic Light
(Fall 2022)

 

Public Lecture Events

Upcoming Lectures

 

Jurg Koch is a White male dancer of middle age from Switzerland, with dark brown short hair. He also wears a mustache and short-cropped beard. Jurg is invited by IDC to teach workshops on Universal Design in support of dance and disability pedagogy in Spring 2023.

Jürg Koch
(Bern, Switzerland, Spring 2023)

Jürg Koch is a Swiss-based artist/scholar with specialized expertise in supporting the development of inclusive dance pedagogy.

He was a tenured associate professor of dance at University of Washington in Seattle where he developed his integration of Universal Design theory and practice to inclusive dance pedagogy for integrated dance and disability classrooms. From Tuesday and Wednesday, April 4th and 5th, 2023, Mr. Koch’s is residency with Mason Gross School of the Arts’ Integrated Dance Collaboratory includes two progressive lectures and workshops on inclusive dance pedagogy for the Dance Department’s Ed.M PK-12 dance education masters degree students and also a special Byrne Seminar lecture for Jeff Friedman’s course, including a hands-on workshop on accessibility on college campuses.

 

 

Past Lectures

 

Gili Hammer is an Israeli woman, of European descent, middle aged with short brown hair and blue eyes. Dr. Hammer is a professor at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel, who lectured and consulted for IDC on her research on blind women and dance. In Fall 2021. She is sitting at a wooden conference table, wearing a white dress shirt with a long-sleeved black sweater over her shirt, posed with both elbows propped on the table with her chin resting on both hands.

Dr. Gili Hammer
 (Hebrew University, Fall 2021)

Dr. Gili Hammer Residency (October 13–15, 2022; online, Jerusalem Israel): “Performing Disability in Israel On- and Off-stage: Blind Women’s Gender Performance and Integrated Dance” (online, October 13, 2021)
IDC consulting in sight-impairment and integrated dance (online, October 14–15, 2021)

 

Kate Marsh is a White middle-aged disabled woman with dark brown hair and blue eyes. She was born with one hand missing. Kate is a doctoral scholar in disability and dance at Coventry University in the U.K. and was invited to lecture and consult for IDC in Spring 2022. Her hair has bangs just above her eyes and her long hair is braided and one long braid appears on the left side of her face and falls to her mid-chest. She is slightly smiling. Kate is wearing a brown and white striped T-shirt and a turquoise blue long-sleeved shirt over the T-shirt.

Dr. Kate Marsh Residency
(March 2/April 11–16, 2022)

Lecture: “Dance, Disability and Pedagogy: Developing inclusive Strategies” (online, from U.K., March 2, 2022)
Lecture: “Re-thinking Leadership in Integrated Dance Practice and Training April 13, 2022)
IDC Consulting on theater venue ADA-compliance and Inclusive Dance pedagogy

 

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Mindy Eisenberg Adaptive Yoga Residency
(March 10–13, 2022)

Yoga for Dancers workshop
Yoga for Wellness workshop
Adaptive Yoga workshop
IDC Consulting on adaptive somatics training

 

Evan Ruggiero is a young White man of European descent. He has brown curly hair and blue eyes, and is smiling warmly at the viewer. He is sitting down with one bare foot on the floor, with his knee up; the other leg ends with his lower leg amputation stump pointing straight out to the viewer. Evan is wearing a gray tweed vest, over a black long-sleeved shirt, and black jeans. He is holding in one hand his two tap-dance shoes, with the metal taps facing out to the viewer. Leaning up against his upright knee are his two assistive devices: One device is his prosthetic lower leg with a foot attachment and the other device is his “peg-leg” with the metal tap on the end, used for tap dancing. The photo’s background is a middle gray color, matching his vest.

Evan Ruggiero Residency
(March 22, 2022)

Public Lecture, Douglass Library:
“Conversations on Dance and Disability, with Evan Ruggiero”
Dance Appreciation: Lecture-performance