**NEW DATE AND LOCATION**

Dance/Video Artist Eric Dunlap (Berlin/NYC) and Choreographer Kim Gilbilisco (NYC) offer a two day workshop exploring dance a live video interaction, using the Nikolais/Louis Techinque for dance and live mix video tools.

January 21-22, 2012
12pm – 4pm each day
A showing of the work created will follow on Sunday at 5pm.

Fee: € 60
email workshops@forwardmotiontheater.org for registration

DANCEWORKS
Dominicusstrasse 3, 2nd Hinter Hof, 4th Floor Studio
10823 Berlin

The workshop is both physical and technical. We will use elements of the Nikolais/Louis Technique for Dance to train the body and introduce improvisation. Kim and I were both members of the company and teach the technique at the university and professional level.

As we move into interaction, we will focus on working with the media to improvise and create a dialogue between the performer and media. I am planning two or three different types, feedback, abstraction, and time sampling for us to work with. The interactively are camera based and we will use hardware (video mixer, effects box) and software (modul8).

About the Artists:

Kim Gibilisco is a performer, choreographer and educator based in New York City. A former principal with the Nikolais/Louis Dance Company, she launched her own company, Kim Gibilisco Dances in 2008 and has presented at several venues in NYC including the Merce Cunningham Studio, the Downtown Arts Festival, DUMBO Arts Festival, Joyce Soho, and the ReVision series produced by Forward Motion Theater. She is currently a lecturer at the Mason Gross School of the Arts – Rutgers University, where she teaches in the Nikolais/Louis Tradition. She is also a faculty member of the Nikolais/Louis Summer Dance Intensive, Paul Taylor Dance Intensives, and maintains a Pilates practice in NYC.

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Eric Dunlap is a dance and video artist based in Berlin and New York. A twenty four year veteran of performance, he spent his formative years touring nationally and internationally as a principle dancer with Alwin Nikolais / Murray Louis Dance. He has also worked with the Metropolitan Opera Ballet, Peter Pucci Plus Dancers, Pilobolus, and many other in NYC. Eric is co-founder of Forward Motion Theater, with a mission is to explore movement and technology. Eric has crated many multidisciplinary choreoworks, produced in NYC, designed interactive video installations for the Museum of Modern Art, curated live video and performing artists through FMT’s EyeWash , and performed as a VJ at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center and many other places. Eric is dedicated to advancing the Nikolais tradition in his work, no matter the medium or message.

www.forwardmotiontheater.org