In a final co-creation with our teacher, Mary Overlie, Ephemera is a dance theater performance that explores entropy and the emergence of difference in our universe. Amidst a forest of sequined cook’s aprons and caps, vacuums, microwaves, and clowns, Ephemera makes visible the invisible.
Deborah and Sophia share a new dance duet based on a drawing and prompts given to them by Mary Overlie
As part of some of the first activities of the Mary Overlie Legacy Project, co-stewards, Deborah Black and Sophia Treanor offer a week of training in summer 2021.
Six Viewpoints WEEK (online via ZOOM)
with Sophia Treanor and Deborah Black
June 21st - 25th
Mon-Thu 1:30 - 2:45pm
Fri - 1:30-4pm
Sliding Scale $150-$300
Email to register!
open to all, beginners and advanced
Jean Hamilton Floor Barre 3-week intro course
with Deborah Black and Sophia Treanor
on Zoom
Tuesdays/Thursdays 3 - 4:30pm EDT
June 15th - July 1st
$100-$275 sliding scale
limited to 8 students
Register now!
Practice the Six Viewpoints
Dedicate time to a creative project
Support and be supported
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Mondays 1 - 2:45pm EDT
June 7th - Aug 2nd (No class June 21st)
~or~
Tuesdays 5 - 6:45pm EDT
June 8th - July 27th
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$165 - $415 sliding scale
Apply by May 25th 11:59pm EDT!
limited to 6-8 students
SPACE
11 Oct with Deborah
Zoom-session 14.30-16.00 CET
18 Oct with Deborah “in” Rotterdam
studio-session, Cuartito Azul 14.30-16.30 CET
25 Oct in Rotterdam
outdoor-location Blaak (near library) 14.30-16.30 urban sketching * CET
Connection during a time of physical* distancing**
*physical - our moving bodies
**distancing - the space between us
During this workshop, we will notice how Space and Movement, two of the Six Viewpoints, are already shared between us. First we will connect to our senses and gravity through movement. Then we will work on perceiving just how much 1.5 - 2m is in our own spaces. Finally, we will see if we can observe one another through our computer screens, perhaps pass movements between us, and gather the ways in each changing moment of feeling connected while keeping our distance.
During the 18 October session at Quartito Azul, we will revisit all of these ideas along with the added challenge/joy of being in the same room together.
Sundays
October 18th - November 8th
11am - 12pm EDT
Thursdays
October 29th - November 19th
2pm - 3pm EDT
$60-$80 sliding scale
please email Deborah to enroll!
Mondays (full)
October 5th - 26th
1pm - 2pm
With Deborah Black & Sophia Treanor
NOW ONLINE!!
More information is here.
Join me every Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday for drop-in on-line Six Viewpoints classes
Six Viewpoints with Deborah Black
Tuesdays at 10:15am EST (through June 9)
Wednesdays at 8pm EST (through May 27)
Fridays at 12pm EST (through May 29)
AND Instagram @_deborah_black_
In these 50 minute classes we will start by tuning into our bodies in the present tense, listening to our nervous systems. Then we will move into a Six Viewpoints improvisation working to uncover our perception of space, time, movement, and shape. The class is designed to be grounding, creatively inspiring, and intellectually stimulating.
Jessica Cerullo is developing EXIT INTERVIEW, a song cycle, at the Dragon’s Egg.
Rooted in an exploration of Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen’s Body Mind Centering principles and the “satisfaction cycle,” the residency comprises a series of 1-3 day sessions over the course of 2019-2020 and will culminate in a sharing for the Dragon’s Egg community.
Guests artists during the residency include Wendell Beavers, Deborah Black, Ethelyn Friend, Gary Grundei and Connie Rotunda.
registration is closed for this event
Study the 6 Viewpoints in-depth with Deborah from the comfort of your own home!
Deborah will join Isabel Sanchez in Madrid for a week of research and development of their performance work and its relationship to the Six Viewpoints.
Join us - registration is open!
Poet Alyson Hallett and dance artist Deborah Black dialogue between movement and poetry, asking, what if writing reveals what we don't know we know?
Can it be a way of co-authoring with the parts of ourselves that only speak through a pencil?
Can writing take us into the depths of our bodies, thus creating pathways to re-embodiment, knowing, and therefore re-empowerment?
A starting place for the workshop is learning to listen again. Deborah will introduce the Six Viewpoints practice of presence inspired by choreographer, Mary Overlie. Participants will open up their bodies to a myriad of connections with space, emotion, movement, time, the earth, and one other. Within that, can we hear, see, smell, feel, all that we are connected to and experience it fully?
What comes of this listening? Alyson will introduce writing exercises and the invitation to share what is written, to make known what is going on inside the body and mind as it moves. We will work towards an understanding of our bodies as an act of re-empowerment as we bring together our thoughts, feelings and actions to the page and into the room to inspire others.
Deborah will participate in a 2.5 week residency in the East German countryside to work on her book and continue creating a new performance piece.
Deborah will perform in an evening of dance choreographed by Mary Overlie.
September 23, 2019
St. Mark’s Church on the Bowery. NYC
danspaceproject.org
Deborah has been invited to Philadelphia to begin work on a new performance piece.
On September 19th she will read an excerpt of her book, Fork, and share a work-in-progress. Please email her for more information.
For the first time in almost seven years, Deborah will perform an adaptation of The Runner (2007), choreographed by Deborah Hay
August 28, 2019
OUTSIGHT, a performance series presented by LEIMAY in partnership with the New York Restoration Project.
Dorothy Strelsin Memorial Garden
Lower East Side, NYC
7PM
FREE
Featuring Peter Sciscioli (New York, USA) in conversation with Iskra Sukarova (Skopje, Macedonia), Ivana Ivcović (Zagreb, Croatia), Agnieszka Mendel (Wygnanowice, Poland), and other participants from the IIAC residency and Moving Arts Lab at Earthdance. Moderated by Marýa Wethers, Director of International Initiatives at Movement Research.
GPS Chats offers GPS artists and cultural producers an informal platform to discuss their work in the independent contemporary dance sector within their cultural contexts and the influence of international exchange on the development of their practices.
I will be participating!
Deborah invited back for the 3rd time to participate in the International Interdisciplinary Artists Consortium (IIAC) and to teach and perform at the Moving Arts Lab (MAL) in Western Massachusetts. August 18 - 25.
Becoming Known: An experiment in creating from text
Everyone brings a text - original, prose, poem, play - something asking to be worked with and/or known more intimately. We work slowly to connect with our bodies and voices. We open up to watch and listen to each other, receiving words and actions. We loosen our hands to write from our bodies, from our experience. We enter into the unknown to create. What do the words tell us? What do we need to communicate? Maybe a song, a painting, a dance, a piece of theatre, an essay, or something we can’t yet know.
The Six Viewpoints
Originated by dancer/choreographer, Mary Overlie, The Viewpoints deconstruct the materials used in performance: space, time, shape, emotion, story, and movement, opening up their infinite possibilities. This workshop will include a brief introduction to the theoretical framework of the Viewpoints as well as taking a closer look at the materials through improvisation and experimentation.
SPACE AS STORY
What story does a space or place tell? What story could it tell? How do space, the body and language work together to become a story, whether narrative or abstract?
In this four-hour workshop, we will challenge and expand our knowledge of the materials of space and story for performance-making. The afternoon will be based in the Six Viewpoints theory and practice.
Originated by dancer/choreographer, Mary Overlie, the Viewpoints deconstruct the materials used in performance: space, time, shape, emotion, story, and movement, opening up their infinite possibilities. The study of the Viewpoints introduces performance makers to a clear vocabulary of materials to spark research or new perspective on their own work.
The afternoon will include a brief introduction to the theoretical framework of the Viewpoints and exercises to localise the materials of space and story. Then we will put space and story in communication with one another through improvisation and experimentation to find greater and greater storytelling possibilities.
This workshop is for performers, directors and choreographers, but dramaturgs, designers and artists of all disciplines are also welcome.
No prior movement experience is necessary.
Sat, 25 May 2019
14:00 – 18:00 BST
Sun, 3 March 2019
13:00 – 16:00 GMT
Theatre Deli - Deli Studios
2 Finsbury Avenue
London
This three hour session, will include a brief introduction to the theoretical framework of the Viewpoints as well as taking a closer look at the materials through improvisation and experimentation.
This workshop is for performers, directors and choreographers, but dramaturgs and designers of all disciplines are also welcome.
No prior movement experience is necessary.
If you have any questions, please get in touch on viewpoints.uk@gmail.com
Sundays from 12pm - 2pm EST, January 20th - April 7th, 2019.
**Registration Closed - Next cohort will begin in Fall 2019 - please join the mailing list for updates
The Viewpoints is a technique of improvisation that grew out of the postmodern dance world. It was originated by dancer/choreographer, Mary Overlie who deconstructed the materials used in performance: space, time, shape, emotion, story, and movement, opening up their infinite possibilities. The student can expect to receive a clear vocabulary of materials to spark research or new perspective on their own work.
Course content
— Weekly 2-hour class
— Definition of Postmodernism in relationship to Classicism and Modernism
— Embodiment of the horizontal nature of Postmodernism through the study of Shape, Space, Time, Emotion, Movement, and Story through improvisations.
— Methods for incorporating the Viewpoints into an existing performance, creation, healing, or teaching practice
— Lectures and reading materials to support understanding of the theory and philosophy of postmodernism
— Homework assignments for deepening the relationship to the materials
— An on-line group forum for questions, discussion, and additional resources
— Special guest lectures on poetry and future studies
$400 (scholarships and discounts for students available)
$375 early bird until December 15, 2018
Open Viewpoints/movement classes
Lake Studios, Berlin
9 and 16 November
9:30-11h
5 Euros/class
The Inevitability of Influence: An embodied dialogue on power and control
Berlin
6 October 2018
13h - 17h
An experiment in toppling and examining hierarchies in embodied spaces using the Postmodern practice and theory of the Six Viewpoints as articulated by the choreographer and dancer, Mary Overlie. In our increasingly isolated existences, we will examine hyper-individualism in contrast to group-think to uncover assumptions and discover possible new approaches to being together. We will move, play, and write poetry during this four hour workshop at Lake Studios in Berlin.
Please email viewpoints.us@gmail.com if you'd like to register
15€ beforehand 20€ in-person
Deborah is an artist-in-residence at the SEEDS Festival — an interdisciplinary arts and ecology festival gathering artists, community activists, scientists, spiritual leaders, permaculture practitioners, and more for ten days at Earthdance.
