contact improvisation workshop with jungwoong kim / APRIL 22, 2023

Instead of doing our summer festival this year (don’t worry, it will return summer 2024), Atland is hosting a spring workshop that will be facilitated by Jungwoong Kim and Lilianna Kane, with special guest artists. The 1-day contact improvisation workshop and jam will include chef-prepared meals. Participants are invited to stay the night at Atland Saturday for a small fee. Come experience the peaceful and secluded hills of western Massachusetts in a glorious home and dance studio.

A B O U T

This workshop will center the practice of Contact Improvisation, while also diving into voice work, ecopoetry, and collective performance. Workshop days will consist of classes (taught by Jungwoong Kim & Lilianna Kane and guest artists Germaine Ingram and Juliette Lee), performances, jams, and delicious food cooked by Maghan Baptiste. 

T U I T I O N + M E A L S + H O U S I N G

Tuition and all meals: $80 for 1 day workshop tuition + chef-prepared meals

Housing options @Atland and @Thayer Hill: $50-$80 (tiered options include: private bedroom with private bathroom in Atland House, private bedrooms with shared bathroom in Atland House, private apartment with shared bathroom in Thayer Hill, or dorm-style futon sleeping in Thayer Hill studio with shared bathroom). You can choose your housing preferences in the application when you register, below.

NOTE: Participants are welcome to find their own housing and only pay tuition/meals fee of $80, especially those who live nearby. For out-of-town guests, tuition is $80 plus housing of $50-80.

Optional add-on fees: Airport pickup/drop-off at Hartford Bradley International Airport ($50 each way); Train pickup/drop-off at Northampton Amtrak Train Station ($25 each way)

A P P L I C A T I O N

Open to the first 30 participants who register. Submit your $80 tuition online before March 20, 2023 to save your spot. Housing fees are due April 8, 2023. We’ll send you other forms to fill out once you register. Email us at info@torilawrence.org if you have any questions.

Scholarships and work-trade options are full for this workshop, but please reach out to us for future opportunities.

REGISTER HERE >

D A T E S

Sat. April 22 - Sun. April 23

Arrival on the 22th anytime between 10am-Noon. Brunch and orientation for those staying overnight is 10am-Noon and the first movement session begins at 1pm at Thayer Hill Studio. Participants can depart Atland after brunch on Sunday or after the Saturday night jam if not sleeping overnight. There will be a 4 hour workshop on Sat with a contact jam in the evening. There will be home-cooked meals each day (tuition includes optional meals even if you are not staying overnight). A schedule with directions to Atland and the Thayer Hill Studio will be sent to participants prior to arrival.

S C H E D U L E

SATURDAY ARRIVAL + BRUNCH @ATLAND (10AM-Noon) arrival, orientation, and brunch

DAYTIME WORKSHOP @THAYER HILL STUDIO (1PM-5PM) workshop with faculty where participants will dive into contact improvisation, voice work, ecopoetry, and collective dance performance. 

SATURDAY DINNER @ATLAND (6PM-7:30PM) chef-prepared and communal style

SATURDAY EVENING CONTACT IMPROVISATION JAM @THAYER HILL STUDIO (8PM-10PM) informal structured improvisation session for participants to practice what has been introduced during the daytime workshop, experiment, play, and partner together. Personal time for rest and integration may be taken whenever needed.

SUNDAY DEPARTURE + BRUNCH @ATLAND (10AM-Noon) brunch and departure for those who stay over Saturday night after the jam.

jungwoong kim

  • JK is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice is centered in choreography, improvisational dance/sound, Contact Improvisation, and movement for theater. He earned a degree in Choreography at the National University of the Arts in Seoul, South Korea, and performed extensively in South Korea and Japan. Since arriving in the United States in 2007, he has maintained an extensive and diverse practice as a performing artist and creator of site-specific, multi-media works. He is a choreographer and movement consultant for mainstage theater productions and is a regular workshop leader from the actors repertory company of Philadelphia’s Wilma Theater and the Headlong Performance Institute. He collaborates with a wide range of artists, including dancers, musicians, sculptors, and poets, and regularly leads CI, movement, and improvisation workshops at colleges, universities, and artist retreats including the Field Center, Earthdance Creative Living, and Atland Residency.

lilianna kane

  • Lilianna Kane is a dancer currently invested in Contact Improvisation and Collective Improvisation. She is committed to improvisation as a physical practice of presence, attention, unknowing and inquiry. She is curious about the disruption of normative culture through dancing and gathering. She values the interplay of rigor and pleasure. She has trained with a plethora of teachers, collaborators, and friends. She currently lives and works at the Field Center in Bellows Falls, VT.

germaine ingram

  • Germaine Ingram is a Philadelphia PA-based jazz percussive dancer, choreographer, song writer, vocal/dance improviser, oral historian, and cultural strategist and archivist. She creates evening-length pieces that explore themes related to history, collective memory, and social justice, and designs arts/culture projects that explore and illuminate community cultural history. She collaborates with artists from diverse cultural traditions and artistic disciplines, including jazz/experimental music composers, site-specific choreographers, dance and vocal improvisers, African Diasporic culture specialists, and visual/media artists. She is a former civil rights and trial lawyer, law professor and urban school district executive. Among her current civic involvements, she serves on the Public Art Committee of the Philadelphia Housing Development Corporation, the boards of the Leeway Foundation and ArsNova Workshop, and is active with IMPACT, a global initiative to support the field/ecosystem of arts, culture and conflict transformation, as well as the Picasso Project that aims to transform K-12 classroom pedagogy through infusion of the artistic process.

Sueyeun juliette lee

  • Sueyeun Juliette Lee grew up three miles from the CIA. Raised by immigrant Korean war survivors and orphans, she currently lives in Denver, Colorado. Her books include That Gorgeous Feeling (Coconut Press, 2008),  Underground National (Factory School, 2010), Solar Maximum (Futurepoem, 2015), No Comet, That Serpent in the Sky Means Noise (Kore Press, 2017), and Aerial Concave Without Cloud (Nightboat, 2022). She was a Pew Fellow in the Arts for Poetry in 2013, and has been awarded arts residencies at Casa Libre En La Solana (AZ), UCross Foundation (WY), The Asian Arts Initiative (PA), Kunstnarhuset Messen (Norway), Hafnorborg (Iceland), the University of Connecticut, and Rockland Woods (WA). She has published numerous essays on Asian American writing and contemporary US experimental poetry, and ran Corollary Press, a chapbook series dedicated to experimental multi-ethnic writing, from 2006-2016. Her video, performance, and installation art have been presented at The Blaffer Museum of Art (TX), Leon Gallery (CO), The Asian Arts Initiative (PA), Artworks Center for Contemporary Art (CO), Chicago’s IN>TIME Performance Art Festival (IL), and Georgia Gallery (CO). Find her at silentbroadcast.com.

maghan baptiste

  • Maghan Baptiste is a poet first, with a natural inclination towards dance, movement, cooking & making art in various forms that keep her creative practice on fire. She lives and loves in Western Massachusetts, and spends her time on improvised quilts, reading, exploring bodywork, feeding dancers, and learning about natural wine. You can find some of her work at maghwrites.com