Open Flight Studio

10/13/2024

01/04/2024

Welcoming our next Resident Teaching Artist Juliet (Jules) Paramor!

Location: Open Flight Studio
Cost: $15-25 sliding scale
Time: 10-11:30am

Class Description:

We begin with locating ourselves/one another through grounding and improvisational practices before exploring phrase-work and a combo. We will work with sensation, visualization, states of being and memory to work with energy in the space, feel into our truth and play more. Class is a place you are welcome to explore the inward/outward dynamic of your multidimensional body in relationship to self, others, objects, concepts, place, and space. As we open the channels of the body, we release our grip on what we think we should do/be and tune our intuition to gently encourage our desire/truth to move through us in integrity. We will generate responsiveness (self-responsibility) so we can meet ourselves at our edge, and then laugh about it.Juliet Paramor is a dance artist & teacher. Her movement practice is rooted in somatics, improvisation, sensuality and release technique. Juliet works with sensation, states of being, humor, memory, nature and storytelling to work with energy in the space, feel s*xy and play more. The space between things and the space where transformation occurs excites Juliet. Changing seasons, dreams, synapses, the birth canal, public transportation, silence, s*x, death, seeds sprouting, movement, edges, the fertile void.

Learn more at https://www.julietparamor.com/

photo by Ludger Storks

11/28/2023

Support Seattle Dance!

Open Flight Studio is an organization run by artists that volunteer their time to a space that has been a part of the Seattle dance community since 1954! Open Flight has stewarded this space for 20 years!

Help keep this space running and donate at the link in our bio! A little goes a long way!

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06/10/2023

ONE MORE WEEK TO APPLY
2023 APPLICATION STILL OPEN!
Movement Artist Call

Flight Deck:
An Open Flight Studio Residency Program

Awarding up to 40 hours of rehearsal space

Residency: July 23 through September 10, 2022

Application Deadline: Friday, June 18 , 2023

More info at the link in bio!

06/09/2023

Nikolai Lesnikov will be facilitating an upcoming SPIDER movement research session informed by the practice of Open Source Forms (OSF), which offers specific methods to shed layers of held tension in the body and tap into the flow of spontaneity. Nikolai will guide all participants through an introduction to OSF and the session will allow for the timing of each individual’s process of research and integration of lived experience. We will then experiment with writing from witnessing and explore ways in which our writing can enter our process through our voice and/or as a source of scores to improvise from. There is no requirement of previous knowledge of OSF or technical dance training to participate.

05/23/2023

This workshop is designed for full or partial participation

$50 Full Workshop

$35 Day 1

$30 Day 2

*If you need financial support to attend, please reach out to Audrey at [email protected]
Reserve your spot or find more information HERE

Dance w/ me - intentional collaboration with audiences in immersive dance

This workshop introduces an adaptable framework for approaching movement based immersive performance. It balances theoretical and practical approaches to performing alongside audiences. Ultimately it is an invitation to play, collaborate and dance together.

Koryn Wicks is an LA based choreographer, immersive maker, multimedia artist, and dancer. She creates explorable performances in which live movement and digital media build off one another in real time.

Koryn’s work has been shown in the U.S. and abroad at diverse festivals and venues including Slamdance DiG, The Bootleg Theatre, and the University of Rome Tor Vergata. In 2019, her intimate immersive piece Casting won Grand Prize at the LA Immersive Invitational.

Koryn also choreographs for film, television and music videos, most recently, SHAED’s VR music video for their single “Once Upon a Time.”

Before moving to California Koryn danced professionally in New York and Montreal. She earned her certificate of dance with Honors from the Ailey School and a BA in Political Science from the CUNY Baccalaureate Program. Koryn holds an MFA in dance from the University of California, Irvine. She has participated in conferences on dance and embodied cognition and has been on faculty at CalArts, Cal State Fresno, Glendale Community College, Cerritos College and Cypress College.