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Authentic Movement Practice Class
Feb
11
to Jun 3

Authentic Movement Practice Class

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Authentic Movement Practice Class, Moving back to WEDNESDAYS

10-12pm, doors open at 9:45

Kestrels
188 6th Street, Gowanus Brooklyn, second floor

No prior experience with Authentic Movement or dance necessary. Class size limited, please pre-register HERE. Katie Workum and when we are lucky Darrin Wright will facilitate.

Signup sheet HERE

Walk-ins are welcome, but there is a participant cap, pre-registration highly recommended. Registration opens the first of every month. $15

Authentic Movement is an expressive improvisational movement practice that allows a group of participants a type of free association of the body.  It’s a seemingly simple form of self-directed movement, usually done with eyes closed and attention directed inward, in the presence of at least one witness. Movers explore spontaneous gestures, movements, and stillness, following inner impulses in the present moment.

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Authentic Movement class
Sep
10
to Dec 17

Authentic Movement class

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Authentic Movement Practice Class, Moving back to WEDNESDAYS, beginning September 10th.

10-12pm, doors open at 9:45

No prior experience with Authentic Movement or dance necessary. Class size limited, please pre-register HERE. Katie Workum and when we are lucky Darrin Wright will facilitate.

Signup sheet HERE

Walk-ins are welcome, but there is a participant cap, pre-registration highly recommended. Registration opens the first of every month. $15

Authentic Movement is an expressive improvisational movement practice that allows a group of participants a type of free association of the body.  It’s a seemingly simple form of self-directed movement, usually done with eyes closed and attention directed inward, in the presence of at least one witness. Movers explore spontaneous gestures, movements, and stillness, following inner impulses in the present moment.

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One Door Closes and Another Door Closes
May
28
to Jun 7

One Door Closes and Another Door Closes

Two week run!

SHOW ADDED! SURDAY JUNE 7th at 3:00!

Wednesday through Saturdays
May 28th-June 7th, 2025

TICKETS

Kestrels
188 Sixth Street, Gowanus Brooklyn NY

A New Dance Theater Work by Weena Pauly and Katie Workum

Original score played live by Annie Hart

Costumes by Kristen Isola

This is part three: THE FUTURE.  The record is skipping and the casio keyboards are fritzing.  The scifi/fantasy fantasy is in the room and the biodome is failing.  The wellness seminar is going off the rails and the tantalizing lure of perfection withholds meaning and results.  Chaos and harmony, purity and disease; this is our distorted fantasy and inevitable sideways-facing of the F word: The future.  This slippery golem that refracts and distorts as we hurtle into it, falling and clawing as it swallows us up, spits us out, looking pretty much the same and albeit a bit weathered and altogether shifted again and again and again. 

INSTAGRAM

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Now and Then: Mariana and Katie
May
18
to May 19

Now and Then: Mariana and Katie

Mariana Valencia and I will be sharing an evening of solos.

AND WE ARE: having met in 2013-ish as Chez Bushwick AIRS. Little did we know then that we were simultaneously beginning new ways to make work and honor the dances that lived inside our bodies.  And now we are here, turned around so much that we found each other 10 years down the road. We have deepened and returned to our dances in ways that fit who we are now.  We have our stories to tell and these bodies to move.  AND THIS IS: Mariana reinterprets a dance that she made a decade ago. She upholds the improvisatory and lyrical qualities of the work, two essential elements of her research since. Within her current—older yet newer—body, she’s chasing after the remnants of something that’s aged well over time. MEANWHILE: Katie re-works a solo made in 2022 newly titled We Must Take the Canoe.  This piece marked a return to set work after a 10 year departure into Authentic Movement and improvisational forms. She wades deep into historical fantastical scenarios, American myths of pioneering and conquest, personal and imagined anecdotes to construct a self.

Tickets by suggested donation $20.

Kestrels 188 6th Street, Gowanus BK

TICKETS!

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Monster Mourning remount!
Jan
14
to Jan 20

Monster Mourning remount!

Dance Theater by Weena Pauly and Katie Workum, with live music by Annie Hart

Weena and Katie traverse the long tethers of time through shaken-up fantasy worlds, characters built from their lacking and over-ing, and through the filtered groundwater of their kinship of the last 25 years. They concoct forgotten tales of vaguely euro-lineages and fables into a disjointed present. They navigate connection steeped in inherited competitions and codes of femaleness, while time traveling their own ages and bodies through their love language of hair-braiding and awkward clog dancing. Monster Mourning includes live music by the multi talented musician and composer Annie Hart.

APAP show Sunday January 14th, 2024 at 3:00 with reception immediately following

AfterPAP shows Friday and Saturday  Jan 19th+20th, 2024 7:30pm

Kestrels, 188 6th Street, Brooklyn NY

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Monster Mourning
May
18
to May 25

Monster Mourning

New Dance Theater work co-created with Weena Pauly.
Original music and live instrumentation by Annie Hart.
Set design in collaboration with Darrin Wright.

Thursday-Saturday May 18-20
Wednesday+Thursday May 24-25
7:30pm
$15

188 Sixth St, Gowanus Brooklyn

TICKETS

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SOLOS Anna Thérèse Witenberg and Katie Workum
May
20
to May 22

SOLOS Anna Thérèse Witenberg and Katie Workum

Hi Friends,
I made a dance. Anna Witenberg also made a dance. Together they make up an evening called SOLOS. SOLOS is happening next week at a new space in Williamsburg, BK called Pageant. We all would love for you to join.

SOLOS Anna Thérèse Witenberg and Katie Workum
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY MAY 20 & MAY 21
8:00pm
Pageant
70 Graham Ave
Brooklyn, NY
$15
TICKETS

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The Door's Unlocked
Feb
3
to Feb 9

The Door's Unlocked

ANNA, DARRIN, DAVID, ELEANOR, JESS, KATIE, LESLIE & WEENA, THE DOOR’S UNLOCKED

Foley Gallery,59 Orchard Street, NYC 10002

February 3rd-9th, 2020, daily,Monday through Friday 2pm-10pm, Saturday and Sunday 12pm-9pm

Reserve tickets at tickets@katieworkum.org ,Donation based pricing at with door. Cash or venmo accepted

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PANEL DISCUSSION: Improvisation in the Studio, practices in choreography.
Oct
6
3:30 PM15:30

PANEL DISCUSSION: Improvisation in the Studio, practices in choreography.

Should it Stay or Should it Go now? Improvisation in the Studio, practices in choreography. Panel Discussion.

Sunday Oct 6th, 3:30p – 5:00m, following the workshop at CPR listed below. Workshop attendance not necessary to join.

Improvisation has long been a methodology for making work in contemporary dance practices. Here we talk with makers and movers alike to try to shed light on how it is used by different artists and get into issues of ownership in material making.

Moderated by CPR Director Charlotte Farrell. Panelists include Leslie Cuyjet, Eleanor Smith and more.

free

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CPR Presents: We Need a Moment. An Authentic Movement Workshop with CPR AiR Katie Workum
Oct
6
12:00 PM12:00

CPR Presents: We Need a Moment. An Authentic Movement Workshop with CPR AiR Katie Workum

October 6, 12p-5p
CPR - Center for Performance Research
361 Manhattan Ave, Brooklyn


Tickets: $20 at the door, RSVP to programs@cprnyc.org

Open to all levels

Workshop, 12:00p – 3:00p

In this immersive 3 hour workshop, we will dive into the deep end of our own great unknown with Authentic Movement and improvisation. Authentic Movement is an expressive improvisational movement practice that allows a group of participants a type of free association of the body. It’s a seemingly simple form of self-directed movement, usually done with eyes closed and attention directed inward, in the presence of at least one witness. Movers explore spontaneous gestures, movements, and stillness, following inner impulses in the present moment. Witnesses gain attunement to their expectations and to how and what they see. Both enter a space of generosity, care and vulnerability. Then working in this newly opened inter personal space, more formalized directed improvisational exercises push our boundaries of awareness, creative power and how we all can do, think and see.

This is a friendly space to meld feeling, knowing and moving and re-assign hierarchies between expertise and honesty. Open level workshop.

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Teaching at Gibney Dance Monday Mornings
Sep
9
to Jun 29

Teaching at Gibney Dance Monday Mornings

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We will dive into the deep end of our own great unknown with Authentic Movement and improvisation. Authentic Movement is an expressive improvisational movement practice that allows a group of participants a type of free association of the body. It’s a seemingly simple form of self-directed movement, usually done with eyes closed and attention directed inward, in the presence of at least one witness. Movers explore spontaneous gestures, movements, and stillness, following inner impulses in the present moment. Witnesses gain attunment to their expectations and to how and what they see. Both enter a space of generosity, care and vulnerability. Then working in this newly opened inter personal space, more formalized directed improvisational exercises push our boundaries of awareness, creative power and how we all can do, think and see.


This is a friendly space to meld feeling, knowing and moving and re-assign hierarchies between expertise and honesty. Open level workshop.

REGISTER HERE

280 Broadway, NYC

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Teaching at Gibney Dance Mondays in June and July
Jun
3
to Jul 29

Teaching at Gibney Dance Mondays in June and July

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I’m teaching Authentic Movement and Improvisational Forms at Gibney Dance MONDAYS in JUNE and JULY 10-12pm

In the class we will utilize Authentic Movement (AM) paired with improvisations as a methodology to reach a more meaningful and intuitive place from which to be and move.  AM is an improvisational technique in which a witnessed person moves with eyes closed for an extended period of time responding to impulse alone. Deepening our intuitive and intellectual selves,  we can become a dancing whole entity: equal parts mind, body, choice and intuition. This class is for anyone who wants to stop and take a breath, to look at what you have been taking for granted, to expand then release, meld feeling and knowing,  re-assign hierarchies between expertise and honesty and to learn and be humbled by the great unknown.

register here

280 Broadway NYC

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Living Gallery at Gibney Dance
Mar
1
6:30 PM18:30

Living Gallery at Gibney Dance

How do we employ necessary tactics for collaboration while staying invested in our freedoms and autonomies? Blending ritual, Authentic Movement and an improvisational practice and performance model, this ongoing work endeavors to make an alternative culture for creation based in cultivated risk and care. Leslie Cuyjet, Weena Pauly, Jess Pretty, Eleanor Smith, David Thomson, Anna Witenburg and Darrin Wright are the builders and the container, working together live to testify our shifting present, selves and group. This is a performance, practice and public experience as one. Curated by Eva Yaa Asantewaa

FREE, rsvp suggested

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Morning Moving Meditation
Sep
29
to Oct 13

Morning Moving Meditation

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Hancock Shaker Village, Hancock, Massachusetts in the Berkshires.

Start your day with meditation and movement workshops on Saturdays and Sunday (Sept 29, 30 & October 13) in an authentic Shaker village. All ages/abilities welcome. Classes are at 9am, and include admission to Country Fair for the entire day. Get moving! Part of the Country Fair weekend.

$25/$22.50 members

https://hancockshakervillage.org/event/13345/?instance_id=30049

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authenticate this! the class
Sep
21
to Dec 14

authenticate this! the class

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BSKD, Fridays 10-12 beginning Septemer 21th, 2018

By utilizing Authentic Movement and improvisations to reach a more meaningful and intuitive place from which to move, we will become powerful in our dancing and our lives. Authentic Movement is a closed-eyed, long-form improvisational exchange, where we can deepen our intuitive and intellectual selves. We work from equal parts mind, body, choice and impulse, finding new connections and finding true self.   This class is open level.

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The Let Go/ Nick Cave at The Park Avenue Armory
Jun
17
3:30 PM15:30

The Let Go/ Nick Cave at The Park Avenue Armory

Please join an extended community of dancers as we LET GO as part of the weekend installation of NICK CAVE'S THE LET GO at The Park Avenue Armory.  A group of 25 dancers will immerse ourselves in the installation, the sounds and the feeling of this exhibit live.  Using my long form, closed-eyed improvisational practice, adapted to the installation, we will join, commune and LET GO.  join us and move your body, be a witness, be a mover, come let go with us.

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Sunday Salon with CPR Artists-in-Residence
Jan
14
2:00 PM14:00

Sunday Salon with CPR Artists-in-Residence

Workum continues her work with ritual and improvisation, currently asking how to reclaim concepts of ‘form’ from existing for primarily for an outside gaze, to enhancing form to create open channels for living and creating.  In this work in process she grounds her questions within historical research in the Utopian community of The Shakers.  Melinda Ring, Kimberly Brandt and Antonio Ramos and The Gangbangers round out the day.  please check CPR website for times.

Free admission. $5 donation encouraged at door (cash only).

Sunday Salons are a new series of gatherings featuring the work, research materials, and ephemera of CPR’s Artists-in-Residence. Free and open to the public, join us for an afternoon of conversation and mingling punctuated by performances and artist interventions. 

361 Manhattan Ave, Brooklyn NY

http://www.cprnyc.org/

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Oct
13
to Oct 15

AUTHENTICATE THIS! the workshop

BKSD, Friday through Sunday October 13-15th, 3 Sessions 2-5pm

$20/Single $60/Full Workshop

An immersive workshop over the course of three days, we will dive into the deep end of your own great unknown with Authentic Movement and improvisations through a scaffolded system that I have developed over the last four years with my company.  Through both mind and body investigations we will bring to light our habits and hang-ups, and the trials and joys of moving, bringing ownership over our whole selves as persons, makers, performers and witnesses.  This workshop is for anyone who wants to stop and take a breath, to look at what you have been taking for granted, to expand then release, meld feeling and knowing, separate intuition from impulse, re-assign hierarchies between expertise and honesty and to learn and be humbled by the great unknown. 

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Sep
8
to Dec 15

AUTHENTICATE THIS! the class

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 at BSKD, Fridays 10-12 beginning Septemner 8th, 2017

By utilizing Authentic Movement and improvisations to reach a more meaningful and intuitive place from which to be and move, we will become powerful in our dancing and our lives. Authentic Movement is a closed-eyed, long-form improvisational exchange, where we can deepen our intuitive and intellectual selves. We work from equal parts mind, body, choice and impulse, finding new connections and finding true self.   This class is open level.   

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Here Are The Mountains
Apr
8
to Apr 9

Here Are The Mountains

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Here Are The Mountains slips between desires for creation and demolition and takes its form as a shifting and temporary monument.

Created by Katie Workum
In collaboration with the performers Eleanor Smith and Weena Pauly
Lighting concept and Design by Madeline Best
Sound concept and Design by James Lo

Presented with Brooklyn Studios for Dance (BkSD)
210 Lafayette Avenue
Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, NY
Saturday April 8 at 7:00pm, and Sunday April 9 at 7:00pm
Tickets $15 cash at door
Reservations: tickets@katieworkum.org

 

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