In 2025 CreWcollective presents a workshop
PHYSICAL DIALOGUES: EXPERIMENTS IN COMMUNICATION THROUGH MOVEMENT
A dance technique and approach to movement research with Daniel Lepkoff and Sakura Shimada.
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D. Lepkoff, ©Maria Soarez (2009)
Beginning in the early ’70’s DANIEL LEPKOFF played a central role in the development of Release Technique with Mary Fulkerson and John Rolland, and Contact Improvisation with Steve Paxton. Through ongoing experimentation in performance, exploring specific questions about movement with students in workshops, ongoing personal movement research, and a stream of collaborations with improvising artists, Daniel has slowly expanded and deepened his understanding of functional movement and the presence of the imagination in the
body.
As a performer he is known for composing dances that arises from the process of living movement and as a teacher for his continual invention of original techniques, making direct contact with information and pursuing questions together with students.
He is an original founder of Contact Improvisation since 1972 and one of the founders of Movement Research in NYC.
He works internationally through Europe, Eastern Europe, and South American.
He lives on a piece of land in Vermont.
Sakura Shimada, ©Rita Fazakas (2007)
SAKURA SHIMADA grew up and began to dance in Japan. She first studied at a neighborhood dance school and eventually met Heidi S. Durning, a Japanese choreographer and teacher, who exposed her to the compositional ideas of western modern dance as well as the movement forms of tradition Japanese dance. In 1997 she moved to New York City and studied at the Martha Graham School of Dance. After one year she began to explore the various approaches to new dance technique available in the downtown dance scene at such centers as Movement Research, The Trisha Brown Studio, and Danspace, as well as and studying Ballet with Nadine Levine. During this period Shimada received a certificate to teach Simonson Jazz Technique.
She has performed in the works of emerging choreographers Joshua Bisset and Jenni Hong at Danspace Project at St. Marks Church. Shimada has created several of her own site specific solo works in a variety of spaces including “Movement Research at Judson Church” (an informal performance space “in the round”) and live clubs “Galapagos” and “The Web”, as well as creating a video-dance film on the streets of Chinatown shown for The Fringe Festival summer 2005. In 2008/2009 Sakura was Artist in Residence at Movement Research in New York City.
In 2003 Sakura began to study improvisation with Daniel Lepkoff participating in many intensive workshop and research projects in New York as well as in Europe and South American. In 2005 she assisted Daniel Lepkoff in a workshop and performance in Moscow, Russia and in the 2007 and 2008 they were in residence at CATIDans in Istanbul.
She has also studied with Steve Paxton, Lisa Nelson, and recent obtained a teachers training certificate in DanceAbility from Alito Alessi.
In 2019 completed the professional training program at the New York Feldenkrais Institute. Since that time she has been researchig and teaching this method and integrating this information into her dance practice.
In 2024 CreWcollective organized workshop and performance with Daniel and Sakura.
WORKSHOP
Moving the Enviroment: Questions into Form, workshop
when: August 5 – 11, 2024
where: Žižkostel, Prague
PERFORMANCE
Everyday Events
when: August 11, 2024, 8pm
where: Žižkostel, Prague
