Monday Night Class at Pieter Performance Space with DaEun Jung curated by Milka Djordjevich

Groovy Dancers is a movement research/practice that explores simple-to-complex step patterns in both solitary and collective manners by examining the body mechanics and personal tendency of patterning steps. This workshop introduces applicable principles of ancient Korean dance such as subtle weight shift led by foot articulation and breathing technique that helps to utilize the gravity and circular energy flow.

The evening begins with a breath-led warm-up focused on relaxation as a preparation for bodies to generate effortless moves in establishment of organic patterns. Different genres of familiar or risky music facilitate the group investigation of defining rhythmic pulses and enhancing body patterns. Groovy Dancers ultimately seeks to render participants’ dancing grooves, which can be traditional or new, individual or universal, ephemeral or repetitive, through one’s steps and body responses. With a belief that the established grooves on a curtain step pattern can be idiosyncratic based on individuals’ different physical structures as well as movement/cultural practice backgrounds and also can be homogenous according to the efficiency of the body mechanics and physics shared by all human species, Groovy Dancers attempts to foster collective kinesthetic exhilaration between all-bodymind participants.