Jan
8
to Mar 4
May
18
to May 19
Now and Then: Mariana and Katie
Mariana Valencia and I will be sharing an evening of solos.
AND WE ARE: having met in 2013-ish as Chez Bushwick AIRS. Little did we know then that we were simultaneously beginning new ways to make work and honor the dances that lived inside our bodies. And now we are here, turned around so much that we found each other 10 years down the road. We have deepened and returned to our dances in ways that fit who we are now. We have our stories to tell and these bodies to move. AND THIS IS: Mariana reinterprets a dance that she made a decade ago. She upholds the improvisatory and lyrical qualities of the work, two essential elements of her research since. Within her current—older yet newer—body, she’s chasing after the remnants of something that’s aged well over time. MEANWHILE: Katie re-works a solo made in 2022 newly titled We Must Take the Canoe. This piece marked a return to set work after a 10 year departure into Authentic Movement and improvisational forms. She wades deep into historical fantastical scenarios, American myths of pioneering and conquest, personal and imagined anecdotes to construct a self.
Tickets by suggested donation $20.
Kestrels 188 6th Street, Gowanus BK
TICKETS!
Jan
14
to Jan 20
Monster Mourning remount!
Dance Theater by Weena Pauly and Katie Workum, with live music by Annie Hart
Weena and Katie traverse the long tethers of time through shaken-up fantasy worlds, characters built from their lacking and over-ing, and through the filtered groundwater of their kinship of the last 25 years. They concoct forgotten tales of vaguely euro-lineages and fables into a disjointed present. They navigate connection steeped in inherited competitions and codes of femaleness, while time traveling their own ages and bodies through their love language of hair-braiding and awkward clog dancing. Monster Mourning includes live music by the multi talented musician and composer Annie Hart.
APAP show Sunday January 14th, 2024 at 3:00 with reception immediately following
AfterPAP shows Friday and Saturday Jan 19th+20th, 2024 7:30pm
Kestrels, 188 6th Street, Brooklyn NY
TICKETS
May
18
to May 25
Monster Mourning
New Dance Theater work co-created with Weena Pauly.
Original music and live instrumentation by Annie Hart.
Set design in collaboration with Darrin Wright.
Thursday-Saturday May 18-20
Wednesday+Thursday May 24-25
7:30pm
$15
188 Sixth St, Gowanus Brooklyn
TICKETS
May
20
to May 22
SOLOS Anna Thérèse Witenberg and Katie Workum
Hi Friends,
I made a dance. Anna Witenberg also made a dance. Together they make up an evening called SOLOS. SOLOS is happening next week at a new space in Williamsburg, BK called Pageant. We all would love for you to join.
SOLOS Anna Thérèse Witenberg and Katie Workum
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY MAY 20 & MAY 21
8:00pm
Pageant
70 Graham Ave
Brooklyn, NY
$15
TICKETS
Aug
7
to Jul 31
I'm still here
Hi. I’m here. I’m not teaching any regular online Authentic Movement and Improvisational classes right now. But please contact me if you would like to set up a small group or private online session. katie@katieworkum.org
Feb
3
to Feb 9
The Door's Unlocked
ANNA, DARRIN, DAVID, ELEANOR, JESS, KATIE, LESLIE & WEENA, THE DOOR’S UNLOCKED
Foley Gallery,59 Orchard Street, NYC 10002
February 3rd-9th, 2020, daily,Monday through Friday 2pm-10pm, Saturday and Sunday 12pm-9pm
Reserve tickets at tickets@katieworkum.org ,Donation based pricing at with door. Cash or venmo accepted
Oct
6
3:30 PM15:30
PANEL DISCUSSION: Improvisation in the Studio, practices in choreography.
Should it Stay or Should it Go now? Improvisation in the Studio, practices in choreography. Panel Discussion.
Sunday Oct 6th, 3:30p – 5:00m, following the workshop at CPR listed below. Workshop attendance not necessary to join.
Improvisation has long been a methodology for making work in contemporary dance practices. Here we talk with makers and movers alike to try to shed light on how it is used by different artists and get into issues of ownership in material making.
Moderated by CPR Director Charlotte Farrell. Panelists include Leslie Cuyjet, Eleanor Smith and more.
free
Oct
6
12:00 PM12:00
CPR Presents: We Need a Moment. An Authentic Movement Workshop with CPR AiR Katie Workum
October 6, 12p-5p
CPR - Center for Performance Research
361 Manhattan Ave, Brooklyn
Tickets: $20 at the door, RSVP to programs@cprnyc.org
Open to all levels
Workshop, 12:00p – 3:00p
In this immersive 3 hour workshop, we will dive into the deep end of our own great unknown with Authentic Movement and improvisation. Authentic Movement is an expressive improvisational movement practice that allows a group of participants a type of free association of the body. It’s a seemingly simple form of self-directed movement, usually done with eyes closed and attention directed inward, in the presence of at least one witness. Movers explore spontaneous gestures, movements, and stillness, following inner impulses in the present moment. Witnesses gain attunement to their expectations and to how and what they see. Both enter a space of generosity, care and vulnerability. Then working in this newly opened inter personal space, more formalized directed improvisational exercises push our boundaries of awareness, creative power and how we all can do, think and see.
This is a friendly space to meld feeling, knowing and moving and re-assign hierarchies between expertise and honesty. Open level workshop.
Sep
9
to Jun 29
Teaching at Gibney Dance Monday Mornings
We will dive into the deep end of our own great unknown with Authentic Movement and improvisation. Authentic Movement is an expressive improvisational movement practice that allows a group of participants a type of free association of the body. It’s a seemingly simple form of self-directed movement, usually done with eyes closed and attention directed inward, in the presence of at least one witness. Movers explore spontaneous gestures, movements, and stillness, following inner impulses in the present moment. Witnesses gain attunment to their expectations and to how and what they see. Both enter a space of generosity, care and vulnerability. Then working in this newly opened inter personal space, more formalized directed improvisational exercises push our boundaries of awareness, creative power and how we all can do, think and see.
This is a friendly space to meld feeling, knowing and moving and re-assign hierarchies between expertise and honesty. Open level workshop.
REGISTER HERE
280 Broadway, NYC
Jun
3
to Jul 29
Teaching at Gibney Dance Mondays in June and July
I’m teaching Authentic Movement and Improvisational Forms at Gibney Dance MONDAYS in JUNE and JULY 10-12pm
In the class we will utilize Authentic Movement (AM) paired with improvisations as a methodology to reach a more meaningful and intuitive place from which to be and move. AM is an improvisational technique in which a witnessed person moves with eyes closed for an extended period of time responding to impulse alone. Deepening our intuitive and intellectual selves, we can become a dancing whole entity: equal parts mind, body, choice and intuition. This class is for anyone who wants to stop and take a breath, to look at what you have been taking for granted, to expand then release, meld feeling and knowing, re-assign hierarchies between expertise and honesty and to learn and be humbled by the great unknown.
280 Broadway NYC
Mar
1
6:30 PM18:30
Living Gallery at Gibney Dance
How do we employ necessary tactics for collaboration while staying invested in our freedoms and autonomies? Blending ritual, Authentic Movement and an improvisational practice and performance model, this ongoing work endeavors to make an alternative culture for creation based in cultivated risk and care. Leslie Cuyjet, Weena Pauly, Jess Pretty, Eleanor Smith, David Thomson, Anna Witenburg and Darrin Wright are the builders and the container, working together live to testify our shifting present, selves and group. This is a performance, practice and public experience as one. Curated by Eva Yaa Asantewaa
FREE, rsvp suggested
Oct
14
2:00 PM14:00
Sunday Salon at CPR
Performing work in progress as part as the Andrew Mellon Artist in Residence Program at Center for Performing Research, Brooklyn NY.
http://www.cprnyc.org/events/sunday-salon/
Sep
29
to Oct 13
Morning Moving Meditation
Hancock Shaker Village, Hancock, Massachusetts in the Berkshires.
Start your day with meditation and movement workshops on Saturdays and Sunday (Sept 29, 30 & October 13) in an authentic Shaker village. All ages/abilities welcome. Classes are at 9am, and include admission to Country Fair for the entire day. Get moving! Part of the Country Fair weekend.
$25/$22.50 members
https://hancockshakervillage.org/event/13345/?instance_id=30049
Sep
21
to Dec 14
authenticate this! the class
BSKD, Fridays 10-12 beginning Septemer 21th, 2018
By utilizing Authentic Movement and improvisations to reach a more meaningful and intuitive place from which to move, we will become powerful in our dancing and our lives. Authentic Movement is a closed-eyed, long-form improvisational exchange, where we can deepen our intuitive and intellectual selves. We work from equal parts mind, body, choice and impulse, finding new connections and finding true self. This class is open level.
Aug
4
3:00 PM15:00
The Wassaic Project
Eleanor Smith Weena Pauly and I will be participating in the The Wassaic Project's summer festival. The event runs 12pm-late. we perform at 3:00.
FREE
https://www.wassaicproject.org/events/2018-summer-festival/#dance
Jun
17
3:30 PM15:30
The Let Go/ Nick Cave at The Park Avenue Armory
Please join an extended community of dancers as we LET GO as part of the weekend installation of NICK CAVE'S THE LET GO at The Park Avenue Armory. A group of 25 dancers will immerse ourselves in the installation, the sounds and the feeling of this exhibit live. Using my long form, closed-eyed improvisational practice, adapted to the installation, we will join, commune and LET GO. join us and move your body, be a witness, be a mover, come let go with us.
Jan
14
2:00 PM14:00
Sunday Salon with CPR Artists-in-Residence
Workum continues her work with ritual and improvisation, currently asking how to reclaim concepts of ‘form’ from existing for primarily for an outside gaze, to enhancing form to create open channels for living and creating. In this work in process she grounds her questions within historical research in the Utopian community of The Shakers. Melinda Ring, Kimberly Brandt and Antonio Ramos and The Gangbangers round out the day. please check CPR website for times.
Free admission. $5 donation encouraged at door (cash only).
Sunday Salons are a new series of gatherings featuring the work, research materials, and ephemera of CPR’s Artists-in-Residence. Free and open to the public, join us for an afternoon of conversation and mingling punctuated by performances and artist interventions.
361 Manhattan Ave, Brooklyn NY
http://www.cprnyc.org/
Oct
13
to Oct 15
AUTHENTICATE THIS! the workshop
BKSD, Friday through Sunday October 13-15th, 3 Sessions 2-5pm
$20/Single $60/Full Workshop
An immersive workshop over the course of three days, we will dive into the deep end of your own great unknown with Authentic Movement and improvisations through a scaffolded system that I have developed over the last four years with my company. Through both mind and body investigations we will bring to light our habits and hang-ups, and the trials and joys of moving, bringing ownership over our whole selves as persons, makers, performers and witnesses. This workshop is for anyone who wants to stop and take a breath, to look at what you have been taking for granted, to expand then release, meld feeling and knowing, separate intuition from impulse, re-assign hierarchies between expertise and honesty and to learn and be humbled by the great unknown.
Sep
8
to Dec 15
AUTHENTICATE THIS! the class
at BSKD, Fridays 10-12 beginning Septemner 8th, 2017
By utilizing Authentic Movement and improvisations to reach a more meaningful and intuitive place from which to be and move, we will become powerful in our dancing and our lives. Authentic Movement is a closed-eyed, long-form improvisational exchange, where we can deepen our intuitive and intellectual selves. We work from equal parts mind, body, choice and impulse, finding new connections and finding true self. This class is open level.
Jul
17
to Jul 28
Intensive rehearsals in Hillsdale, NY
Eleanor, Weena and I are beginning a new project upstate this Summer. Reach out for a studio visit.
Apr
8
to Apr 9