Clearing

somatic practice + improvisation

clearing practice (2020-present) studies the materials and process of making meaning through movement, and our inherited ability to get past or become free of what doesn't serve us. It aims to bring us into open spaces in dense forests...those clearings of possibility and imagination that we seek.

practice often starts with a Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement lesson, in which we tune into our patterns of effort and tension and discovering the possibility of new, different and more easeful movement. After the ATM, the group discusses and prepares for the clearing score, an improvisational score that aims to teach us about ourselves as creators and as performer simultaneously.

clearing scores are devised to give shape to dances encompassing diverse and individual aspects of each performer and to sharpen each performer’s presence and choreographic voice during the act of improvisation and performance. Resting within kinesthetic homes, inner realities and desires, the dancers underscore their individuality while listening and collaborating with one another to ask, What do we already know so well? Where does it take us?

Open Studio Shows

1. November 12 + 16
   7-9pm
   CRAWLSPACE
   RSVP to kirsten.schnittker@gmail.com

Workshops/Classes

• CRAWL SPACE ~ October 8, 15, 22, 28, November 5, 2024

• Pieter Performance Space ~ June 24, September 9, October 6, November 3, December 1, 2023

• Basic Space LA ~ April 8 & 15, 2023