305 International Improv Fest

From the Inside Out (Workshop)

Jeremy Nelson (NY, US)

The workshop explores the relationship of the body thinking, the body processing, the body making, and the body performing. Does curiosity and examination of our own process produce knowledge? Using simple exercises, hands on work and improvisational scores, we approach our bodies as places of inquiry where we can examine our movement patterns and interests and open ourselves to the possibility of change.

This physical research is influenced by over 35 years of study in somatic practices, including Klein Technique™, the Feldenkrais Method®, and techniques such as Alexander Technique® and Bodymind Centering®

Jeremy Nelson, is a dancer/choreographer and former member of the Siobhan Davies Dancers and Second Stride Dance companies in London, and Stephen Petronio Dance Company in New York. He has also danced in the work of Mia, Lawrence, David Zambrano, Susan Rethorst, Luis A. Lara Malvacías, and in his own work, and with improviser Kirstie Simson. He has received a New York Dance and performance Bessie Award for outstanding performance, and a Guggenheim Fellowship for choreography in 2004.

He was Head of the Dance Education at the Danish National School of Performing Arts from 2009 – 2015, and is now Associate Arts Professor in the Dance Department at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. For many years, he was a member of the teaching faculty at Movement Research in New York; and has taught at American Dance Festival, and at various universities in the United States. He has been invited to give classes to several internationally recognized companies including ROSAS in Brussels, Sasha Waltz Company in Berlin, and Siobhan Davies Dance Company in London, and for the last forty years, has been teaching classes and workshops in over 35 countries around the world at many studios and festivals including ImPuls Tanz in Vienna, P.A.R.T.S. School in Brussels, Escuela Nacional de Danza Clásica y Contemporánea in Mexico, the Kalamata Dance Festival in Greece, and Danza Universitaria in San José, among many others.

He has been presenting and performing his own choreography at various venues in New York and in various countries in Europe, South America and Asia, since 1994. For the last 7 years, he has a been collaborating with Luis A. Lara Malvacías on From A – Z, a project to create a series of highly structured improvisational duets, that have been performed in Amsterdam, Brussels and Barcelona, at La Mama in New York, REDCAT and Electric Lodge in Los Angeles, and several times at Radial System in Berlin.