DRIFT: A DRAWING AND MOVEMENT WORKSHOP
WITH ANYA SMOLNIKOVA + LILIANNA KANE + JULIO NEIJENS
SEPT 30 - OCT 4
DRIFT: a drawing and movement workshop
Teaching artists:
Anya Smolnikova
Lilianna Kane
Julio Neijens
DRIFT: is a multi-day workshop in mark-making and presence practices. Bridging the worlds between seeing, drawing and somatics, teaching artists and collaborators Anya Smolnikova, Lilianna Kane and Julio Neijens will lead participants through a series of exercises, proposals, scores and classes which will include drawing techniques [including working with a figure model], daily movement classes, Contact Improvisation and working in nature. The sessions are designed to integrate the senses, open gateways to empathetic relating and train skills.
all levels welcome • beginners encouraged
homecooked meals | fresh garden vegetables | sauna | river dips | woods
Please see supplies list HERE
SCHEDULE OVERVIEW [may change a little as we dream into this]
WED 9/30: arrivals+check-in 4-6 | dinner 6-7:30 | opening circle+landing meditation 8:15-9:30
THURS 10/1: morning practice 7-8 | breakfast 8-9 | morning session 10-1 | lunch 1:30-2:30 | afternoon session 3:30-5:30 | dinner 6:30-7:30 | 8:15 - 9:30 Group Shake
FRI 10/2: morning practice 7-8 | breakfast 8-9 | morning session 10-1 | lunch 1:30-2:30 | afternoon session 3:30-5:30 | dinner 6:30-7:30 | 8:15 CI Jam
SAT 5/3: morning practice 7-8 | breakfast 8-9 | morning session 10-1 | lunch 1:30-2:30 | afternoon session 3:30-5:30 | dinner 6:30-7:30 | 8:Figure Drawing
SUN 5/4: morning practice 7-8 | breakfast 8-10 | final session 10:30-11:50 | lunch 1-2 | closing circle 2:30-3:30 | final clean 3:30-4:30 | all depart by 5pm
drift:
as in let it happen
as in daydream
as in follow the flow of the river of your individual mind into the
unified-field-ocean of ideas and visions
REGISTER HERE
SCHOLARSHIP | WORK TRADE | PAYMENT PLAN
We offer 3 full scholarships for Black, Indigenous and People of Color [BIPOC] folks in each session. As well as 3 Work Trade spots in each session. If interested please select 'BIPOC Scholarship' ticket OR 'Work Trade' ticket when registering via the link below. For more information about the work trade exchange, please see Work Exchange.
CLICK HERE to register with a Payment Plan.
REFUND & CANCELLATION POLICY:
Partial refunds are available up to 10 days prior to the event.
*Please note that our registration software requires a 3% processing fee which will be deducted from your refund. Please note, no refunds will be issued within 10 days of the event. If you need to cancel, email us as soon as possible at communications@thefieldcenter.com so that we may offer the spot to wait-listed participants.
NOTE to BIPOC Scholars and Work Trade:
Please notify us within 10 days of the event if you cannot attend, so that we may offer the spot to wait-listed participants.
*Last minute cancellations with no prior notice may result in ineligibility in the future worktrade of scholarship positions.
If you have questions, please reach out to us anytime at communications@thefieldcenter.com
ABOUT THE FACILITATORS
Anya Smolnikova (b. Minsk, Belarus) is an artist and educator living and working in Vermont. Her art practice spans painting, drawing, performance, installation, dance and community actions. Smolnikova has exhibited internationally in Armenia at HAYP; in Los Angeles at LAST Projects; in Chicago at Mana Contemporary, Heaven Gallery, Links Halls, No Nation, and 6018 North; in Massachusetts at the Boston Boston Center for the Arts, Piano Craft Guild, MUSA Collective, Dorchester Art Projects and Four Eleven Gallery in Provincetown. Collaborations include projects with Anastasia Tinari, FAR x WIDE, Seeding Sovereignty among others. Teaching includes Northwestern University; Northwestern Prison Education Program; Chicago Art Partnerships in Education; Museum of Fine Arts Boston; Brookline, Cambridge and Boston Centers for Adult Education; The Field Center and The Putney School in Vermont among others. Smolnikova has been a resident artist at the Vermont Studio Center, Boston Center for the Arts, Groundworks Space in Hudson Valley, and holds an MFA from Northwestern University in Chicago. She lives at The Field Center in Vermont, where she is a founding member, Director of Operations, Curator and Faculty.
Photo by Anna Maynard
Lilianna Kane is an artist and chef, primarily invested in the dance practice of Contact Improvisation. She is committed to improvisation as a physical practice of asking questions, paying attention, patience and peace. She values the interplay of rigor, rest, discipline and play. She teaches and shares her practices nationally and internationally, as well as producing and organizing international CI gatherings and intensives. She is currently the head chef and a CI curator at The Field Center (center for performance, dance and multimedia art) in Bellows Falls, VT) where she has the privilege of regularly practicing, teaching, and researching Contact Improvisation. She is deeply indebted and inspired by all of her teachers, dance partners, and dance ancestors, who continually influence her practice
Photo by Anna Maynard
