DIMENSIONALIZED | FAYE DRISCOLL
AUGUST 5 - 10
Dimensionalized
Building an ensemble over the course of six days, Driscoll will lead the group through warm-ups, prompts, play and scores, responding to what emerges between us. We will experiment with performance as a shapeshifting energetic practice. Loosening our perceptual, physical, expressive and vocal rigidity, we will commit, feel to excess and practice rigorous play. We will delve into sensation and imagination practices, work with touch as a portal, explore the subtle body, try to become nobody and everybody and most importantly - be and make something together. How is sensation a portal to whole worlds? How does the act of imagining itself create a choreography that is constantly altering our bodies and worlds? Can we sensitize to the emergent dynamic of forces moving within and between us? How do we cultivate the ability to tune our presence, shapeshift, and shimmer?
SCHOLARSHIP | WORK TRADE | PAYMENT PLAN
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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 POLICY: Full refunds available up to 10 days prior to the event. Please inform us if you cannot attend an event up to 10 days prior [including Scholars and Work Traders]! Refunds within the 10 days prior to the event may be available on a case-by case basis, please reach out to communications@thefieldcenter.com
ABOUT THE FACILITATOR
Photo by Bea Borgers
Faye Driscoll (b. 1975, California, lives and works between Los Angeles and New York) is an award winning art and performance maker who uses an alchemy of bodies and voices, objects and live sound to conjure worlds that are, like ourselves, alive and forever changeable. She creates immersive worlds of sensorial complexity and perceptual disorientation aimed to rile up the passive, numb, screened-out body. These interventions come in the shape of intimacies: a performer holding your hand, death metal song made through recording your stomping feet, a place to rest and a private guided choreography in your ear, sand beneath your toes while taking in a land-based ritual work on the shoreline.
She was the 2021-2022 Randjelovic/Stryker Resident Commissioned Artist at New York Live Arts, and is the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship, a Bessie award, and the Jacob’s Pillow Artist Award among many others. Her work has been presented at Wexner Center for the Arts, ICA Boston, MCA Chicago, and BAM, and internationally at Tanz im August, Kunstenfestivaldesarts (2021, 2024), La Biennale di Venezia, Festival d’Automne à Paris (2015, 2023), Melbourne Festival, Belfast International Arts Festival, Onassis Cultural Centre in Athens, Centro de Arte Experimental in Buenos Aires, Festival Dias da Dança in Porto, Théâtre Garonne (Toulouse), Le Lieu Unique (Nantes), and Festival TransAmeriques (Montreal). Faye received an Obie Award (2023) and the Grand Prix (2024) at the Prix de la Danse de Montréal for her latest performance-installation, Weathering.