dance class

DANCEbank with Arianne Hoffmann

Scores of scores: come improvise!

The class will, after a loosening warm-up, move into structured improvisations. We will play with a various scores while conceiving of them as metaphors for socio-political issues. In that sense, we will be theorizing (in) space by the means of our bodies moving. But let’s not get too heady here. We will move in relationship to each other, and find out more about how we can structure improvising.

This class is open to anyone willing to move and explore. No specific dance training is required, but an awareness of your body is hoped for.

and in July:
special guest workshop with Ralf Jaroschinski
Saturday & Sunday, July 11 & 12th, 11am-2pm
$17 single class, $30 both days.

Arianne Hoffmann is a German born choreographer, who just advanced to candidacy in the M.F.A. program at UCLA’s Department of World Arts and Cultures, where she has had the pleasure to study with Simone Forti, Susan Foster, and Victoria Marks. She creates scored improvisations that function as socio-political metaphors and are based on the physical body as a means and focus of expression. Her work has been shown around Los Angeles, most recently at Highways Performance Space, the Unknown Theater, and at Anatomy Riot. She has performed in and produced events with the performance art group Rent-a-friend and at TanzTangente in Berlin/Germany. As a performer, she recently worked with Rachael Lincoln, Krenly Guzman, and Kristen Smiarowski. She is the producer of AN EARFUL OF DANCE, a series of podcast conversations on dance, partially funded by the University of California Institute for Research in the Arts (UCIRA), and co-producer of Anatomy Riot. She has received the Forti Family Scholarship for Artistic Achievement twice.