Choreography & Cardboard
with Vermont Dance Alliance Resident Artist Michael BodelChoreography & Cardboard
with Vermont Dance Alliance Resident Artist Michael BodelThis event occurred as part of the 24/25 Classes & Workshops season. This is an archived view.
Folding, flatness, corrugation. In this interdisciplinary movement workshop, we explore cardboard as a choreographic inspiration and performance partner.
24/25 Classes & WorkshopsDance artist Michael Bodel's work integrates objects and materials as central choreographic elements and inspiration. His new work, the institute for folding, unpeels layers of human knowledge through dance, text and a stack of 30 sheets of cardboard. This "devising lab" is part of a regional series of workshops where participants explore Bodel's approach to creating dance with objects and also contribute ideas and choreography to this new dance project.
This workshop is free and open to all levels. Prior experience with contemporary dance or movement theater is helpful but not required. Please contact us with any accessibility questions.
the institute for folding will premiere later in 2025.
Learn more about the Vermont Dance Alliance.
Michael Bodel is an interdisciplinary dance artist based in southern Vermont. His projects often integrate puppetry, object theater and text, and his process involves collaboration, research into disparate areas, and play. He is currently the Vermont Dance Alliance's 2025 Resident Artist developing the institute for folding: a cardboard choreography of human wonder and neglect. Bodel has also been supported as a SEED Resident Artist by the Vermont Performance Lab, a HERE Artist Resident and Dream Music Puppetry Resident (2012), and a St. Ann's Warehouse PuppetLab Residency.
His other works have included dances choreographed to oral histories of immigration, a pageant set in an apple orchard, and a puppet opera unpeeling Bellini's La Sonnambula. More at mbodel.net
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