THE POETICS OF DANCE AND PLACE Guided Audio for Movement Practice by K.J. Holmes

Download this guided audio piece and take time to listen to the symphony of sounds of self and environment, to move within a somatic experience that offers resonance, reflection, atmosphere, gravitas and sublimity. To inhabit an interior of geography of body and world, and the symbiosis that exists as a shared field with other beings.  Playing scale and tone, a form of preservation and conservation, learning through the influence of light, space and the living natural world to gain understanding of where we are through lived experience.

Presented in partnership with Dance Ireland and Galway Dance Project 

Biography: K.J. Holmes

K.J. Holmes, a Brooklyn NY based danceartist/actor/singer/writer, travels nationally and internationally teaching/performing/creating.

K.J. has been exploring improvisation as process and performance since 1981. She has collaborated extensively with poet Julie Carr; dancers Simone Forti, Karen Nelson, Lisa Nelson and Image Lab, Steve Paxton; trumpeter Roy Campbell, Jr,; has performed in the work of Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People, Xavier Le Roy, Lance Gries, Mark Dendy, Melinda Ring, Karinne Keithley Syers, among many others; performs in artist/filmmaker Matthew Barney’s new film Redoubt ; collaborates with drummer Jeremy Carlstedt in L.I.P. (Love Is Power, MLKjr.); teaches at NYU/ETW, Princeton University, Sarah Lawrence College and Movement Research; completed the certification program of School for Body Mind Centering(r); is a graduate of William Esper Studio (Meisner acting with master teacher Terry Knickerbocker) and Satya Yoga (with yogi Sondra Loring) and is currently becoming an Ayurvedic practitioner (Ayurveda’s World). K.J. is devising a new dance installation titled 900 Bees Are Humming , a multi-disciplinary work exploring death, life and transformation, shown as a work in progress in the U.S. as well as at TicTac (Brussels),  Studio Fraga (Buenos Aires) and Art Bar (Halifax). Her work has been presented by many venues including The Chocolate Factory, PS122, Danspace Project, Mana Contemporary Chicago, The Belfry, Chashama, Dixon Place, K.J. has been assisting dance artist Simone Forti in reperforming her Dance Constructions at MoMA, as well as conducting Happenings : Art as Physical Experience, leading small groups into embodied knowledge of different artists at MoMA. Currently, K.J. is a student of Paramatma Siri Sadhana of the Invincible Hall, teaches remotely and is immersed in environmental, yoga, spiritual and anti-racist studies.

Photo credit: K.J. Holmes