La Mama Umbria: International Symposium for Directors

STEFANIE BATTEN BLAND

Cross Pollination: An approach to dance-theatre

This workshop will explore and increase creativity for makers looking to frame and support alternative productions. Theatre training generates creative ways of being for dancers. Movement exercises liberate actors, allowing a dynamic decision making both physically and vocally. This workshop enables action and reaction to learnt and improvised material. Participants will leave with concrete scenic tools and articulate theories to address social and communal issues within work and explore their skills and limits.

Company SBB will be performing 'Bienvenue欢迎WelcomeBienvenidoأهلا بك' at Spoleto Festival 2018 in Umbria, Italy! 

MOVEMENT INVENTION PROJECT® (MIP®) is a unique summer dance intensive in New York City for advanced dancers. Dancers work with an extraordinary faculty of teachers, choreographers, and mentors in a project that encourages risk-taking, creativity, and the development of improvisational skills in a supportive environment,
preparing the dancer to work in collaboration with today's choreographers.  

The program includes ballet, improvisation workshops, and the exploration of the creative process.

SBB Adjudicates 2018 American College Dance Association's Western Conference 

Join Stefanie for class at The Playground NYC!

12/18 & 12/19
10 AM - 12 PM
$5 flat rate | first come, first serve
 

Company SBB presents the World Premiere of Bienvenue欢迎WelcomeBienvenidoأهلا بك  as part of La Mama Moves. 
May 25th -27th at 7 PM, May 28th at 4 PM

Tickets at lamama.org! 

During the residency at University Settlement - Company SBB will be rehearsing a new work titled Bienvenue. 

Performance Project:
Bienvenue is an interdisciplinary, immersive performance that examines the willingness to welcome and share space with incoming immigrants to the United States. It also delves into the paranoia of terror and competition that is currently influencing our citizenry to prohibit access to our borders. Bienvenue has been commissioned by La MaMa Moves and will premiere there in May 2017. 

Community Connection:
Stefanie Batten Bland plans to connect more deeply to University Settlement's Early Childhood Programs (she is already the parent of one of our preschool students). Throughout her residency, she will deepen her interactions with teachers and parents, most of whom are either first- or second-generation immigrants. She will lead workshops that will culminate in a community-produced open house festival in early spring

For more info universitysettlement.org

Company SBB hits the road to Martha's Vineyard.  Performing the works Terra Firma, Patient(ce), and Le Germe. 

For more info: dancetheyard.org