Drawing the Dancing Body (Workshop)
If you loved “Everyone Draws Everyone,” this will take you to the next level.
Starve the Critic! Feed the Explorer! Bypass the analytical mind, discover reflexive intelligence, and draw from the spine.
In this innovative figure drawing class, we’ll harness the opportunity to move our bodies, draw, and be drawn. A moving model requires us to recruit what are called fast-twitch muscles, working beneath thought in the realm of “gesture.” By dancing with plurality, no single drawing will define us. We will make many, many drawings. Everybody will have the opportunity to be both artist and dancer. By moving between roles, we learn to feel what we see within our own physical structure. I promise you, the results will be staggering.
The workshop will open with a short class in movement, anatomy, and a few techniques with pen and ink. When the music starts, the first dancer will enter the space and begin to move. Over the course of the
class, artists and dancers will move effortlessly into and out of the space, until the roles merge. Then we’ll have snacks and celebrate each other’s work.
Aaron Birk brings 35 years of training, performance and teaching in Visual Art and Dance. A published graphic novelist, Contact Improv Dancer and teacher-in-training with “The Axis Syllabus” (movement research), Aaron synthesizes observation with proprioception, bringing a vibrantly awake, embodied radiance to his practice.