Amii
Legendre
Movement
/ Community Agitator
I
am really into the transmission of wisdom that comes
from a One to One model--the fun and plasticity, the
questions mushing into the answers, so that the model
of ‘the expert’ becomes entertainingly suspect. I
am also really into the energy and agitation, the
fun and learning that comes from class and group work.
I love what happens when we are asked to perform ‘stuff’
when witnessed by people who know the survival of
our species depends on this compassionate and crazy
act of watching each other do stuff.
One
to one work could include a contact improvisation
dance lesson, alignment or stretching work, yoga-based
explorations, Authentic Movement, or creative and
performance projects based in questions about your
history, body, politics, loss, failures, delights,
your unknowables, wickedness, or dairy use.
Group
class work could include contact improvisation, open
improvisation, VIEWPOINTS, Ensemble Improvisation,
teenage or children movement classes, authentic movement,
community building, Theatre of the Oppressed work,
and choreography or performance work. |
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I
am an independent choreographer, performer, and teacher. I
lived and worked Seattle for 15 years, regularly teaching
contact improvisation, and modern technique, improvisation
and choreography; I have performed, and/or set work all over
the country and in Canada, Hong Kong, Ecuador, and Peru. I
have also choreographed over 30 works, many for groups or
communities other than her company, and has made a lot of
work with musicians, composers, set designers and dancers
with whom I have been lucky enough to make all kind of creative
messes.
I moved
to the Hudson Valley in 2005 to raise my now three and a half
year old daughter and to make dance and community here. On
the East Coast, I completed a guest residency at Weslyan University
(Fall 06), at Connecticut College (Fall 07), teaches modern
and contact on-goingly to the Bard College (and beyond) community,
teaches contact improvisation through Dance New England, hosts
a weekly dance lab group with local dance artists, and choreographs
and performs alternative dance and improvisation work with
dance artists all over the country. My work includes teaching
Dance Improvisation for men in prison in NY, as well as conscious
community building, transformation and education work in prisons.
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