Workshop Date: Saturday, July 10th
Time: 10:00am-12:00pm PST/ 11:00am-1:00pm MST/ 12:00-2:00pm CST/ 1:00-3:00pm EST
Instructors: Chuk Obasi & Alec Lichtenberg
Location: Online via Zoom
FULL SCHOLARSHIPS now available to this workshop for BIPOC! Apply HERE.
Sliding Scale Price: $30-40
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Bodies are intelligent storytellers and witnesses. They hold memories, traumas, dreams and possibilities of transformation. We acknowledge these truths in a particularly traumatic era where mass incarceration, racial, social, and health inequities simultaneously map onto human bodies as they do onto the land. This workshop will explore the role of dance and movement art forms as tools of personal and collective liberation, reclamation, and being. It will also explore the different ways embodied knowledges are viewed and valued across cultures and spaces.
Dancers and non-dancers of all abilities, ages, and levels of movement experience are welcome to join
Meet the Instructors
Chuk Obasi is an actor, writer, director and choreographer. He is currently the Co-Director at TÉA Creative, a Company Member with The Private Theatre, and a Company Member with the People’s Theatre Project. He is also an educator, having served as a Movement Project Director at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting, a Musical Theatre Adjunct Professor at Drew University, and a frequent guest teacher for LAByrinth Theatre among other engagements. He has recently worked with Intersections International (Artist in Residence), the National Dance Institute (Teaching Artist), and STAR Theatre at the Director’s Company (Choreographer). Chuk has performed, written, or directed across disciplines, including theatre, film, television, dance, and live poetry performance. Obasi is also a social justice activist and has taught workshops on using art for social justice at colleges, high schools, museums, and other institutions - most recently including Emerson College, University of Montana, The Caribbean Museum Center for the Arts, Fordham University, Drew University, Fieldston Ethical Culture, and Girl Be Heard. A New York native, born in Queens and raised in the Bronx, Obasi currently resides in Manhattan with his family.
Alec Lichtenberg is an embodied storyteller, educator and youth advocate based in New York City (Lenapehoking). He comes from German Jewish and Irish Catholic ancestry and aims to forward racial equity and social justice through his work. Growing in a loving home, Alec was medicated against his will for ADHD as a child. Later, he found tools of self-connection and repair by studying dance/storytelling, particularly forms of the African Diaspora, with master teachers Chris Walker, Dohee Lee, Anna Halprin and Reverend Nafisa Sharriff. As an artist/researcher, Alec is interested in exploring perspectives on the intelligence of bodies, including how we grieve, connect, remember, imagine and act. He believes in the emergent questions that young people possess and is a committed advocate for making creative, safer spaces for their self-development, expression, and choice-making. Alec has taught extensively in jails, juvenile detention, psychiatric, and hospital settings in New York City and internationally. He holds a master’s degree in Narrative Medicine from Columbia University.