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Emancipatory Practices
with Trebien PollardEmancipatory Practices
with Trebien PollardThis event occurred as part of the 24/25 Classes & Workshops season. This is an archived view.
Explore the mind and body's capacity to resist restrictive structures and systems.
24/25 Classes & WorkshopsJoin us for the Hop's next Big Move workshop. Big Move is a series of dance experiences and discussions that pairs inventive dance artists with wide-ranging areas of research here at Dartmouth.
Dancer, choreographer, educator and Hop Resident Artist Trebien Pollard will lead a movement workshop focused on emancipatory practices. Pollard's longtime collaborator and Hop Dance Ensemble Resident Choreographer Rebecca Stenn will join him for a dialogue about movement and stillness.
This workshop invites participants to explore the mind and body's capacity to resist restrictive structures and systems. We will be working in various mediums including moving, writing and drawing. This ritual practice seeks to liberate the mind/body of its perceived limitations. How does one quiet the mind while attuning to the body's instinctual desire for survival, existence, liberation and freedom?
All bodies are welcome.
Trebien Pollard is a graduate of Florida A&M University with a BS in Mathematics Education and a MFA in Dance from NYU Tisch School of the Arts. He received training at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center, Florida A & M University, Florida State University, Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance, and from several gifted teachers and choreographers. Trebien has performed with many dance companies, including Tania Isaac Dance, Nia Love, Martha Graham Ensemble, RIOULT, Pearl Lang Dance Theatre, Rebecca Stenn Co., Erick Hawkins Dance Co., the MET (Metropolitan Opera Ballet), Ronald K. Brown/Evidence, Bebe Miller Company, Urban Bush Women and Pilobolus. He appeared in the jazz musical opera, The Hang by Taylor Mac (Librettist) and Matt Ray (Composer).
As a choreographer, Trebien's work has been performed throughout United States, England and Japan. He has choreographed and toured, nationally and internationally, with RASA recording artist 'Nomad'. Trebien has also choreographed William Electric Black's The Hamlet Project, The Damned: A Rock Musical and Frankenstein: The Rock Musical. He performed in and co-choreographed with Jawole Willa Jo Zollar (choreographer) in the opera, The Ritual of Breath Is the Rite to Resist by Jonathan Berger (Composer) and Vievee Francis (Librettist). Trebien's most recent creative work considers interdisciplinary design, geographic sites, embodied language and spatial strategies as emancipatory practices for survival and liberation.
Rebecca Stenn is an artist living and working in New York City. Her group Rebecca Stenn Company performed to critical acclaim in over 50 cities including such venues as The Copenhagen Festival, The Edinburgh Festival, The Joyce Theater, Danspace Project, and Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival among others. As a dancer with MOMIX, Stenn performed in over 30 countries and appeared as a featured performer in films for Italian, Spanish and French television. She is a founding member of Pilobolus Too. Stenn is currently on faculty at The New School and Princeton University and is Choreographer-in-Residence at Dartmouth College. Recently, Stenn started a visual arts practice as a painter and is currently represented by Agora Gallery. Her work has been exhibited in galleries in New York City, London, Milan, Venice and Lisbon and at art fairs in Miami, NYC and South Hampton. She is honored and delighted to have the chance to collaborate, once again, with her dear friend and esteemed colleague, Trebien Pollard.
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