New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA) will provide a dance-focused conversation about NEFA’s presenting and touring grants – including New England Dance Fund, New England States Touring (NEST) grant, and National Dance Project. Staff will also give a demonstration of CreativeGround, NEFA’s free online cultural directory. CreativeGround quantifies and spotlights the region’s robust creative community and enables users to find and connect with the region’s cultural nonprofits like theaters and community centers, artists of all disciplines, and creative businesses like design and marketing firms.
The CreativeGround team will guide individuals and organizations through the process of creating and updating a comprehensive profile maximizing the profile’s searchability. This session will also showcase the detailed search options and the best ways to locate organizations, artists, and creative businesses engaging in specific disciplines, activities and services that make up New England’s unique creative economy.
What do I understand about judgment and interaction? What do I notice physically when I encounter something unexpected? What makes a theatrical moment compelling?
These and other questions are at the heart of Slow Tempo, a rewarding extreme slow movement practice combining the physical training method of Japanese theater director Shogo Ohta with contemporary dance techniques toward exploring the moment-to-moment fact of one’s “being here.”
Slow Tempo is a great vehicle for anyone seeking to develop:
We begin with a thorough full-body warm-up, followed by basic exploration of the principles of Slow Tempo, and structured improvisations in extreme slowness where Ohta believed “we find fresh expression to defamiliarize our daily experience—to look again.”
We won't be kicking our legs or leaping across the floor, but you'll be changed by this powerful and delicate experience. Open to anyone.
