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PRO: The Move: Experiments Inside the Groove
July 25, 2024 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
PRO: THE MOVE, EXPERIMENTS INSIDE THE GROOVE
Dive into contemporary approaches to movement through groove + musicality, technical exploration, and choreography. Class is informed by historic and current movement practices including Black social dance, improvisation, floor work, and modern technique. We will be guided by music from the Jazz and Hip Hop continuum and discuss music just as much as we practice movement. As an experiment in groove, we’ll find a chorus of movement together. Bring all of yourself, that means any foundational movement practices or dance styles/genres of movement, party dances, and social dances; bring all the ways your body moves.
NIA-AMINA MINOR
Nia-Amina Minor is a movement artist originally from Los Angeles. She approaches her physical practice as an imaginative space grounded in rhythm where improvisation, Black vernacular movement, and choreography meet. Her creative work focuses on the body and what it carries, using physical and archival research to explore memory and history.
As an independent artist, Nia-Amina has performed and presented original work at University of Washington, MOHAI, The Luminary St. Louis, Seattle Art Museum, WaNaWari, CD Forum, Seattle Black Film Festival, Reflections Festival, Seattle International Dance Festival (SIDF), and Pacific Northwest Ballet. From 2016-2021, Nia-Amina was Company Artist and Community Engagement Coordinator at Spectrum Dance Theater. She performed in acclaimed works created by Donald Byrd including Rap on Race, Shot, and Strange Fruit receiving a Seattle Dance Crush Award for her performance in Shot. Prior to relocating to Seattle, Nia-Amina was a co-founder and former curator of Los Angeles based collective, No)one Art House.
Nia-Amina has taught, guest lectured, and been a visiting artist at CalArts, University of Washington, Saddleback College, Cypress College, and UC Irvine. She holds a MFA from UC Irvine and a BA from Stanford University.
In 2021, Nia-Amina was recognized as Dance Magazine’s 25 Artists to Watch. Currently, she is a Velocity Dance Center Made in Seattle Artist in Residence. Dance Festival (SIDF), and Pacific Northwest Ballet. From 2016-2021, Nia-Amina was Company Artist and Community Engagement Coordinator at Spectrum Dance Theater. She performed in acclaimed works created by Donald Byrd including Rap on Race, Shot, and Strange Fruit receiving a Seattle Dance Crush Award for her performance in Shot. Prior to relocating to Seattle, Nia-Amina was a co-founder and former curator of Los Angeles based collective, No)one Art House.
Nia-Amina has taught, guest lectured, and been a visiting artist at CalArts, University of Washington, Saddleback College, Cypress College, and UC Irvine. She holds a MFA from UC Irvine and a BA from Stanford University.
In 2021, Nia-Amina was recognized as Dance Magazine’s 25 Artists to Watch. Currently, she is a Velocity Dance Center Made in Seattle Artist in Residence.