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JDT offers a multitude of residency programs for professionals, students and novices of all ages offering innovative experiential approaches to creativity, communication, technique and performance.
In both performance and education, the company is interested in exploring the relationships between concept, process, and product, discovering paths from science, history, technology, literature, or individual sentiment to the performing and visual arts.
JDT residency programs can be designed collaboratively with the host organization and can be integrated into almost any curriculum from the arts to the sciences. Led by the artistic director and company artists or collaborators, residencies range from three days to three months and may include the following programs. Most of these programs may include live music.
performance
stage site-specific renegade
multimedia = dance + theater + original live music + film + installation + mobile sets
type = evening-length + mixed rep + site-specific
venue = traditional + non-traditional venues
non-traditional = storefronts + lobbies + supermarkets + nightclubs + restaurants + malls + 5k races + sidewalks + galleries + homes +elevators + hallways + movie theaters + etc.
master classes
contemporary dance technique = all levels
repertory = intermediate/ advanced
choreography = all levels
workshops
various levels
process = for performing + visual + literary artists + students
all levels
participants work together to create a final collaborative work, discovering new ways to advance their artistic vision through a collective voice.
co. improv = for performing + visual + literary artists + students
all levels
free writing and improvisational movement techniques to explore/identify creative instincts, new movement vocabulary.
creative instinct = for writers + visual + interdisciplinary artists
all levels
explores essence + instinct. taught with live music and dance performance, students react to sound, breath, movement, intensity and direction, creating new works on the spot .
memory movement = for dancers + physical theater
all levels
participants transform personal and cultural memories into choreography using structures based on scientific/psychological theories of memory and memory loss and the human brain.
create your own renegade = for dancers + physical theater
all levels
participants work with director and live music to create a work that blends into the background and emerges as a site-specific performance. part of the renegade performance series.
lecture-demonstrations
designed with presenter
youth performance programs
i spy3 = performance and lecture-demonstration on making art from popular culture.
the renegade performance series = site-specific performances in school cafeterias, class rooms, and commons areas.
new work commissions
by artistic director melanie miller
for professional companies + students + community members +/or jdt
interactive community programs
body blog = http://body-blog.blogspot.com. video dance diaries, dance and technology workshops and master classses, community recording days
the memory project = dialogue, new work creation, performance about memory & memory loss
the renegade performance series = community participation in renegade performance +/or create-your-own renegade performance workshops
new projects = call to discuss
Photo credits this page: Larry Rippel
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Philadelphia:
Kumquat Dance Center, 3500 Lancaster Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19104
215.387.2000
Pittsburgh:
Junction Dance Theatre, 423 Noble Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15232
Tel: 412-608-8535