2023 Fall Forward Dance Workshop
PREVIOUS WORKSHOP
September 30 - October 1, 2023
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Gibney: Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center | 280 Broadway
OUR MISSION
ETD is dedicated to providing diverse community arts programming, scholarships, and accessibility for young and mid-career dancers and performers, regardless of race, gender, background, sexual orientation, or training. We welcome all levels to join us in this enriching and supportive environment. Whether you are a beginner or an experienced performer, our Master Class Series offers an inclusive space to grow, learn, and connect with the dance community. Join us and take your artistry to new heights.
COURSE OFFERINGS
Conversations Under the Tree ‘The Drawing of Fears’, led by Guest Artist, Karen Hakobian and & Artistic Director, Eryc Taylor
Discover deeper internal insight tactics for meaningful movement generation & implementation.
Breathwork Practices for Dancers, led by ETD Artistic Director, Eryc Taylor
Introduction to miraculous ancient Breath Coach Practices specifically designed to calm nerves, to stay grounded before auditions, and performances to manage daily stress.
Company Class + Factory|Refractory Repertory, led by ETD Company Dancers Taylor Ennen & Sashalie Rios
Expand your repertoire and refine your technique with ETD Repertory. Learn and perform works that challenge and inspire, pushing the boundaries of contemporary dance. Join us for an unparalleled experience in merging dance and technology and take your performance to new heights.
The Business of Dance, led by Fran Kirmser, Dancer & Tony Award Wining Producer
Position yourself to get hired. Learn how to do the following in this onoe-hour plus Q&A seminar:
Create your digital resume, headshot, reel, website, and social media presence with up to the minute tips.
Communicate with industry professionals and ask for what you want!
Build your database of networking and resources lists with who is currently hiring.
“I loved learned the business side of
dance from Fran Kirmser! It taught me
so much and gave me more insight into
my current exploration with dance.”
TEACHERS
ETD Artistic Director, Eryc Taylor:
Eryc Taylor is the Artistic Director of the NYC-based nonprofit dance company Eryc Taylor Dance, its community outreach program, ETD Outreach, and the New Choreographer Grant program for emerging choreographers. Taylor holds an MFA in Dance from NYU Tisch and has been creating and touring work in NYC, nationally and internationally since 1995 and 2006 with ETD. He has received grants, awards, and government support from NYSCA, LMCC, SVOG, and Dance/NYC. Highlights include ETD tours in Mexico (2016 & 2017) and South Korea (2019); ETD's EARTH (2019), featured on the PBS ALL ARTS series "Climate Artists"; ETD's dance film, Uncharted Territory (2020), receiving critical praise, awards, and several film festivals; Factory/Refractory (2022) a critically acclaimed site-specific immersive dance production inspired by 1990s nightlife presented at SLATE NY for 2022 and 2023 residencies.
ETD Guest Artist, Karen Hakobian
Karen Hakobian is an artist, musician, and researcher based in Yerevan and New York City. His innovative approach to `body as a recorder` was implemented in the "Speaking to one Another" project of oral history Armenia-Turkey and included in the "Moush, Sweet Moush" book published in Germany. His "Conversations Under the Tree" series are experimental strategies for collective autonomy and the practice of commons. His artistic practice includes workshops and laboratory with Butoh Master Min Tanaka, the Contemporary Dance Festival in Budapest, Utrecht Art Academy, Summer School of Performing Arts in Sofia, and choreographer Aida Amirkhanyan. Since 2011 he has been collaborating with Paris-based Vahram Zaryan Theater Company, conceptualizing and practicing body, gesture, movement, and sound practices in the context of exile and identity. Their "Mater Replic" and "La Tête en bas" production was seen in several Paris and NYC theaters.
Dancer & Tony Award Wining Producer, Fran Kirmser
After a decade dancing professionally and a career ending injury, I began working on the other side of the stage producing and providing services in what became the first consulting company dedicated to emerging artists. Here artists can obtain help with fundraising and promotion of their art, production services and career development.
As a producer of Broadway and the performing arts stage, I am currently Producing Bob Fosse's DANCIN' running at The Music Box Theater. Other Broadway Credits include; The 2009 Tony Award winner for Best Musical Revival, HAIR, the 2013 Tony Award winner for Best Revival of a Play WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?, GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS starring Al Pacino, and the world premiere of August Wilson's RADIO GOLF, the last play and final chapter in an epic ten-play cycle by Wilson, one of our nation's greatest playwrights. 2016 through 2020, our team produced a political series called AMERICAN SCOREBOARD, which followed the Trump administration and presented actors of stage and screen performing verbatim Congressional hearings.
ETD Company Dancer, Taylor Ennen
Taylor Ennen is a dancer, performance artist, and improviser originally from Ohio. She earned a BFA summa cum laude with an Honors Medallion from Florida State University's School of Dance. Taylor has had additional training from the San Francisco Conservatory of Dance, the Academié American de Danse de Paris, and B12. Taylor is an ongoing collaborator with Danse Theatre Surreality, The Equus Projects, and Eryc Taylor Dance. She has performed in films by Sarah Elgart and Jee Eun Ahn. She has had the privilege of dancing in works by Robert Moses, Ohad Naharin, Alex Ketley, Merce Cunningham, Christian Burns, Larry Keigwin, Doug Varone, Gerri Houlihan, and Gwen Welliver, among others.
ETD Company Dancer, Sashalie Rios
Sashalie Rios was born and raised in Miami, FL, where she received her BFA in dance at New World School of the Arts College. While earning her degree, she trained in various movement styles at intensives with Paul Taylor American Modern Dance, San Francisco Conservatory, and Mark Morris Dance Group. She has since worked professionally with Daniel Flores and freelanced with Mari Meade Dance Collective in France.
“My favorite part of the workshop was
creating movement from our
drawings/memories. Including the
different art forms into the process of
choreographing is a great way to
further articulate and develop our
thoughts/visions.”
