December 17th 1-4 pm

with Heather Maloney

This workshop explores the physicality of falling with gravity through the frame of a contemporary dance technique class, and then continues into an improvisational lab space in the body.

ARTIST BIO:

Heather Maloney is a performer, choreographer and activist originally from Virginia. She is a Miami-based choreographer, dancer and artistic director of Inkub8 an alternative | studio | whitebox | performance | space Wynwood Miami. Her work has been presented at Bates Dance Festival, Florida Dance Festival, New World School of the Arts and in Fundanza Venezula, Performatica, Puebla Mexico, Fusebox, Austin TX. She has been awarded residencies at the Queens Museum of Art, New York (2003); at The Center For New Dance Development in Portland, Maine (2005); Recipient of the Manhattan Community Arts Fund/ New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (2004) NPN Residency through a Community Fund presenter Tigertail Productions (2004) NPN performance residency with Women and their Work Austin Texas (2008). She was awarded the 2008 Miami Dade Choreographer's Fellowship from the Miami Dade Cultural Affairs. Maloney was selected as an Emerging Choreographer for Bates Dance Festival 2008. In addition she was awarded a 2009 Individual Artist Fellowship for Dance from the State of Florida Division of Cultural Affairs. She has taught workshops at New World School of the Arts, Bates College as well as in Brazil, Mexico, and Venezuela.