[NEohioPAL] Free Master Class with Choreographer Alex Ketley

[Nancy Pierce]

*Free Master Class *

*GroundWorks DanceTheater in Partnership with Cleveland State University
Dept. of Dance and Playhouse Square Foundation Dept. of Education continues
its Master Class Series with guest artist*

*Alex Ketley from The Foundry *

*Thursday December 11, 2008  from 10:00 am to Noon*

*George Gund Foundation Studio, Idea Center,  *

*1375 Euclid Ave.** Street Level*

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*Enrollment is limited and on a first-come basis.  **Please reserve a space
in this master class via email to: l.deering at csuohio.edu.<l.deering at csuohio.edu>
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*About the workshop:*



Choreographer Alex Ketley will lead a class through his different thoughts
toward improvisation and choreography. The class is open to dancers of all
skill level and from any discipline. The class will focus on creativity,
asking questions, and expanding thoughts about how movement can be generated
and how we can connect to movement emotionally. The class will begin with
thoughts about how to derive information improvisationally through the
simple acknowledgment of the body's natural architecture relative to
gravity. The class will move then to different ways to take this body
orientation and overlay different ideas to increase the dancer's
improvisational or choreographic range.

*About Alex Ketley*

*Alex Ketley *is very active as both an independent choreographer and
artistic director of the dance company known as The Foundry. He is also a
key faculty member and resident choreographer of the San Francisco
Conservatory of Dance.  Ketley's work has received the National Choo-San Goh
Award, the inaugural Princess Grace Award for Choreography, and a CHIME
Fellowship, as well as awards from the Hubbard Street 2 National
Choreography Competition and the International Choreographic Competition of
the Festival des Arts de Saint-Sauveur in Quebec. He received funding from
the Irvine Foundation to explore California's diverse cultural and physical
landscape through the use of video and improvisation.



Formerly a member of the San Francisco Ballet and Alonzo King's LINES
Ballet, he retired from dancing full-time in 1998 to co-found The Foundry as
a vehicle through which to more deeply explore his interests in
choreography, improvisation, mixed media work, and the collaborative
process.  For The Foundry, he has created numerous dance, installation, and
video works as Artist-in-Residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts
(California), the Santa Fe Art Institute (New Mexico), Yerba Buena Center
for the Arts (California), The Yard (Massachusetts), ODC Theater
(California), Taipei Artist Village (Taiwan), and the Ucross Foundation
(Wyoming)—a body of work that has established for the company a growing
reputation within both the dance and fine art communities.
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