* Interested in learning more about choreography? * Curious about how the body and voice can inform movement? * Want to know more about the Star Crap Method? Then the Body-based Composition course with Larisa Velez-Jackson is perfect for you! Body-based Composition with Larissa Velez-Jackson Today's performing artists are expected to improvise, choreograph, sing, speak and more onstage and in the creative process. Improvisation-based choreographer and multimedia artist Larissa Velez-Jackson shares her compositional practice and improvisation technique, Star Crap Method, to prepare students for the full use of their movement, voice and creativity that is expected of today's body-based artists. Appropriate for performers and/or creators in dance, theater and performance art and students (or those) that are curious about these concepts. Dance 397: Special Topics, 3 credits July 5 - July 28, 2016 - Four Weeks Mon/Tue/Wed/Thur from 4pm - 6:40pm Rathaus Hall Dance Studio 101A Larissa Velez-Jackson is a choreographer and hybrid-artist who uses improvisation as a main tool for research and creation. She has presented work at numerous NYC venues such as: Roulette, New Museum of Contemporary Art, Museum of Art and Design, Danspace Project, American Realness Festival at Abrons Arts Center and Chocolate Factory Theater. In 2011, she launched a song-and-dance collaboration with her husband Jon Velez-Jackson called Yackez, "The Worlds Most Loveable Music Duo". Velez-Jackson was a Movement Research Artist in Residence '12-'13 and an El Museo Del Barrio Artist in Residence '14. She will premiere a full-length evening with Yackez in 2017 at New York Live Arts. Velez-Jackson was recently awarded the prestigious Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant to Artists for 2016, on her tenth year anniversary of professionally showing work. Be part of the Summer Fun!!! SUMMER SESSION at QUEENS COLLEGE The Dept. Drama, Theatre and Dance in collaboration with New York Live Arts [cid:009ac10e-1a6e-42b1-8f26-db0c91d4d1d1]
