Please join us this week as we engage with Molly Rose-Williams and her the collaborators for Social Movement, which premieres on Saturday, November 17, 2018 at Shawl-Anderson Dance Center in Berkeley. Purchase your tickets here.
Today we hear from collaborator Chelsea Boyd Brown.
Chelsea Boyd Brown is a dancer, choreographer, teacher, and arts administrator. She moved across the country from Maryland to the Bay Area in 2017 and has been working with Molly Rose-Williams ever since! Chelsea has presented work at the John F. Kennedy Center, Dance Place DC, SAFEhouse for the Performing Arts, LEVYdance, and Shawl-Anderson Dance Center. When she isn't dancing, Chelsea can be found hiking, crafting, or working on boats.
What have you enjoyed about the process?
I have enjoyed honing an improvisational language over time with the other dancers in this process. Together, under Molly's intentional and conscious direction and guidance, we have created a way to collaborate and tune into one other. I enjoy the challenge of forming sensitivity to the other artists' intentions, clarifying my own, all while being open and responsive.
What is your favorite improv score and why?
My favorite improv score thus far is "movement/sound story." In this score, we stand in a circle and one person does a movement with a sound, then the next person repeats that movement and sound, and adds their own - like a “one word story” but with sound and movement instead. The pattern continues and the story accumulates around the circle. Each time we do this score, there is a new and HILARIOUS story created and vanished.
What is "Social Movement?" How would you articulate the connection between what we've been doing and the idea of social movements?
Social Movement is following, leading, instigating, dragging behind, tip-toeing, stomping, political, personal, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and human pyramids.
Dumplings or tamales?
Dumpz.
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What is "Social Movement?" by Molly Rose-Williams
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