Movement Workshop with Tatiana Desardouin | Passion Fruit Dance Company

Date: 

Saturday, October 15, 2022, 3:00pm to 5:00pm

Location: 

Harvard Dance Center Studio 1, 66 Garden St, Cambridge

Technique Within Your Groove

Dancer, choreographer, dance educator, organizer, curator, and founding artistic director of Passion Fruit Dance Company, Tatiana Desardouin will lead a workshop at Harvard Dance Center as part of the Fall 2022 Visiting Dance Innovators Program (VDIP). The class will include an introduction to hip-hop and house dance culture, drills, foundations, and incorporate some variations and freestyle exercises using those foundations as a basis. Participants will learn how to connect movements with music, tools for creativity and individuality.

Tatiana’s teaching method titled "Technique Within Your Groove" allows for more freedom in one’s musicality and freestyle, incorporating technical tools without losing the groove. This method also pushes dancers to develop their coordination, rhythm, and polyrhythm.

This workshop will include conversations where participants will be introduced to “An Introspective Seed,” a series of questions for introspective anti-racist work. 

An intermediate/advanced level class. Some dance experience is required. All dance forms/styles welcome!

Free and open to both the Harvard and broader Boston dance communities. Must be 18+ years to participate as a dancer. Observers welcome!

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Recommended Attire

Anything you're comfortable moving in (e.g. sweat pants, t-shirts, etc); sneakers that you don't mind putting duck tape on the soles of. The Dance Center will have duck tape on hand. 

Face Coverings

In accordance with Harvard University’s policies, face coverings are optional. The Dance Center has disposable medical-grade face coverings on-hand for anyone who would like one.

 

POST-WORKSHOP JAM WITH AMY O'NEAL AND TATIANA DESARDOUIN

Join the two Fall '22 VDIP artists Amy O'Neal and Tatiana Desardouin for a low-key jam immediately following Amy O'Neal's movement workshop on Sunday, October 16. Finish out the weekend in joyful co-creative community! 

ACCESSIBILITY

The Dance Center’s main floor, housing Studio 1 and two all-gender restrooms, is wheelchair accessible. If you anticipate needing any type of access service to participate, please email vdip@fas.harvard.edu. We welcome the conversation!

The Visiting Dance Innovators Program is funded by The Provostial Fund for the Arts and Humanities with additional support from the Office for the Arts at Harvard, and Theater, Dance & Media.