Quantum Flux: A Creative Process with Carlos Kerr Jr.

Oct 15, 2022, 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm EDT

$50

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A safe space and meditative atmosphere, this workshop is a snapshot of a creative process during the development of a new work, where everyone is treated as an independent artist part of a collective.

The workshop commences with a contemporary class entitled Quantum Flux, a movement practice seeking an innate awareness of the body’s inner and outside ‘edges’ by incorporating different images and modes of resistance.

Articulating the joints and stimulating neuromuscular connections create fluidity and articulation throughout the space, starting with tuning into the senses to find an infinite range of motion and articulation throughout the body.

The warmup leads into a structured improvisation improv meant to engage the mind and stimulate the imagination while challenging one’s habitual perception of movement. This guided process aims to explore various tasks, dynamics, and textures of movement, vulnerability, and surrender of the musculoskeletal system. Gradually, improvisation becomes creative research.

The most essential element in research is asking the right questions. How and why? Driven by sensation and the simplicity of cause and effect, we will engage various regions of the body with magnetic, elastic, and precise physical movement, seeking to make possible, seemingly impossible choices and interruptions. By acknowledging our habits, we can refine our awareness of designing the space, becoming spatial architects rather than reproducing movement. Wrapping up with a summary of all work sculpted and carved through the time shared.

About Carlos Kerr Jr.

Carlos Kerr Jr. is a Belizean-American artist from Brooklyn, New York. He attended Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music Art & Performing Arts. He then continued his education at the Ailey Fordham BFA in Lincoln Center, receiving his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance and graduating with honors.

He has worked internationally, performing with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, the Metropolitan Opera Ballet, Rubberband Dance Group, Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company, Stadtheater Ulm, and the Tanz Luzerner Theater in Switzerland.

He has performed in repertoire and original creations throughout his career with notable choreographers, including Crystal Pite, William Forsythe, Hofesh Shecter, Johan Inger, Bryan Arias, Georg Reischl, Fernando Melo, Itzik Galili, Inbal Pinto & Marcos Morau.

As a choreographer, his work ‘Remotely Equal’ was selected as a finalist in the Concours Choreographique of Mandalain Ballet Biarritz. His creation “Never Odd or Even” was featured as part of an evening of work alongside Patrick Delcroix for the Tanz Luzerner Theater. Carlos was commissioned to create original work for 15 dancers as an Emerging Choreographer for the 20th Anniversary of Springboard Danse Montreal.

Along with his choreographic endeavors and being an active performing artist, Carlos is an international dance teacher, gyrokinesis practitioner, photographer, music composer, and filmmaker. He holds a Master’s Certificate in Advanced Sciences in Dance Science in Health & Performance from the University of Bern.

Registration Protocol
  • ONLINE REGISTRATION ONLY. In-person sign-ups will not be considered.
  • THIS INTENSIVE WILL BE HELD AT OUR 280 BROADWAY LOCATION.
  • Please email classes@gibneydance.org if you have any questions!
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