Landing-Unfurling-Crafting: An Axis Syllabus Dance Workshop with Emily Jones and Jennifer Hong

Landing - Unfurling - Crafting In this workshop, we will examine the relationship between anatomical study and artistic impulse. We will work with our bones as a site of learning, articulation, and transformation. We will investigate the mechanisms of breath, offering tools for ease and expression. We will work with nuance and detail in our anatomy as a way to more deeply understand variation and difference. Participants will be invited into movement patterns that include rolling, crawling, and jumping, alongside opportunities to craft movement material from their own impulses and curiosities. We will explore how the forms we practice can be adapted to the unique shape and history of our own bones and breath. This offering draws from Emily and Jen’s unique perspectives as well as their shared engagement with the Axis Syllabus. This workshop is crafted by our shared practices: contact improvisation, dance phrases and work with rhythm and musicality. Sign up here! https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfbugdhmOCogob1vR-ICtNlajX6D2y5jV6RWGZpe0XxdhgJUg/viewform Registration: Early Bird Price (before February 14) $110-130 sliding scale Regular Price (after February 14) $130-150 sliding scale Please select your payment method below. Venmo: @Emilyjones248 (last 4 digits 1-8-3-5) Zelle: [email protected] PayPal (Please select 'Friends and Family): [email protected] Bios: Emily Jones (she/they) is a dancer, choreographer, movement educator, and bodyworker based in Portland, Oregon. Their interdisciplinary practice centers intuition and embodied learning, drawing on somatic and movement-based research to explore subconscious processes, collaboration, and community care. Emily’s work emphasizes relational ethics and expanded modes of communication. Emily maintains a long-term collaboration with Hannah Krafcik, creating work across dance, video, sound, sculpture, and writing that has been presented locally and beyond. Emily facilitates contact improvisation jams, teaches, and performs with the Queer Contact Improvisation Cohort in Portland. A certified Axis Syllabus teacher, Emily offers classes informed by this lens both locally and nationally. www.emilyannejones.com Jennifer Hong (洪慧珍) BA in Chinese, Reed College Portland, OR, 2000. MFA in experimental choreography, UC Riverside, 2021. She has danced with many choreographers in Portland (most notably with Minh Tran + Co), and Los Angeles. In LA, she has performed with Rosanna Tavarez, Laurel Jenkins, Kevin Williamson, Jmy Kidd, and Rashaun + Silas, among others. Major influences include Anna Halprin and Frey Faust, founder of The Axis Syllabus, and is an Axis Syllabus Teacher Candidate. An initiated student of the Teacher/Wong Loh Sin See of the Chee Choong Temple in Malaysia, a Daoist/Confucian/Buddhist practice, she synthesizes spiritual, artistic, and scientific elements into her work and life. She co-facilitates the Santa Monica Contact Improv Jam and has taught as a guest lecturer at UCLA, CalArts, CSULA, USC Gloria Kaufman, Pieter Space, Middlebury, and UC Riverside. www.jenniferjanehong.com Location: FLOCK https://www.flockpdx.org/ Schedule: Friday February 27 4:30-7:30pm class with Emily and Jen Saturday February 28 1:30- 3:30 class with Emily 3:30-4:30 snack/break 4:30-6:30 class with Jen