Open Level

A protean progression of movements across the floor will develop kinesthetic, motor and sensorial awareness, scale and rhythm studies. These layered torrents will work individually and collectively to unfamiliarize our bodies and recognize them as dynamic, transformative environments, each body observed and welcomed as a total phenomenon in delicious corruption. Building out from Body Weather MB training with Sherwood’s specific attention to rhythm, dis/coordination, un-mastery and rapport with the floor, this training asks that we bring our curiosity, our inquisitive body, and prepare to sweat.

Sherwood Chen has worked as a performer with artists including Grisha Coleman, Yuko Kaseki, Amara Tabor-Smith, Anna Halprin, Min Tanaka, Xavier Le Roy, inkBoat / Ko Murobushi, Christine Bonansea and Sara Shelton Mann. He leads workshops for performers in studio and in natural and urban landscapes worldwide. He has trained performers in places including the Centre National de la Danse Pantin, Independent Dance / Siobahn Davies Studios, La Ménagerie de Verre, Oficina Cultural Oswalde de Andrade, Arlequi, Chez Bushwick, Sala Crisantempo, Centro Nacional de las Artes (DF), Caja Escénica del Teatro de Ciertos Habitantes and the Maré Center for the Arts. For over twenty years, he has contributed to Body Weather research initiated by Tanaka and his associates, both as a member of Tanaka's company Mai Juku and Body Weather Farm in Japan, and subsequently working with members of founding generations in the US and Europe including Oguri and Christine Quoiraud.