ICONS INSPIRE
Featured Choreographer of the Month
French choreographer, performer, and director of Terrain, Boris Charmatz, approaches dance as collaborative possibilities that redraw formal constructs. For him, the stage is a notepad where he drafts organic concepts and then observes and captures the tensions, reactions, and engagements of those involved. Recently appointed as the new Artistic Director of Pina Bausch Tanztheater Wuppertal, he shared with ICONS his creative interests and plans for the future.
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Professional Development for Emerging Choreographers
Director Vlad Angelov talks about ICON SMART creative algorithm
Welcome to our learning program! Here is information about the ICONS Choreographic Institute at ATLAS in partnership with the Atlas Performing Arts Center here in Washington, DC, USA --- a long-needed platform that offers a 9-month long artistic residency with structured academic learning, an experimental creative laboratory, and an advanced professional development program for emerging choreographers. More details are available here.
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WHO INSPIRES YOU AND WHY?
Your Answer?...CLICK HERE - Truly B. - I am inspired by my children and their ability to create without caring about how it is received. They create movement from the heart; their joy in dance is utterly contagious!
- Yako O. - Seeing myself in mirror. I look at the person and think about how to move her. What movement will look interesting on her...
- Bonnie S. - Ni Ketut Arini, commonly known as Ibu Arini from Denpasar Bali inspires me. Ibu Arini is a Balinese dance master teacher. She works tirelessly teaching the children in her school, gives daily to the gods, and is the one of the kindest people I know.
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