Profitraining with Kate Slezak
About the Training
Contemporary dance technique, improvisation, and performance practice
Moving through a series of combinations and choreographies from contemporary dance styles that emphasize release, spiral, and somatic focus, we will warm up our bodies by moving in and out of the floor, dropping into and sensing our weight, and traveling through space. Aiming to activate mobility and sensation, build a connection to the floor, and hone our attention to rhythm, this week’s class is oriented toward rewarding the body with energy, ease, and creative impulse.
Improvisational structures and exercises for performative practice will be integrated throughout the week as we explore the dancing body beyond technique. These exercises are designed to create space for improvisational performance, where we will practice sharpening, trusting, and acting on our compositional instincts to create in real-time, both as individuals and as a group.
About Kate
Kate Slezak's (USA/DE) artistic practice explores how embodied frameworks and practices of presence inform artistic process, performance, and product. In addition to facilitating spaces of collective connection through workshops and courses, a key focus of Slezak's work is on site-specific performance and the intersection of the body and technology within processes of industry and digitalization. She has been based in Europe since 2018, after graduating with a BFA in Dance and Choreography from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and has lived in Leipzig, Germany, since 2020, where she works as a freelance interdisciplinary artist, performer, and dance teacher for both local and international actors.