Artistic Workshop
Movement, Healing, Ritual, and Performance
Facilitated by Adam McKinney Co-Director of DNA Works ( New York, NY)
Movement, healing, ritual, and performance: a workshop that looks at the systematic oppressive structures in which we live and the effects of these structures on our bodies’ systems. Explore the use of movement and group ritual as an opportunity to collectively generate a new methodology in preparing for and creating performance. Please come prepared to move.
Adam McKinney is the Co-Director of DNAWORKS (www.dnaworks.org), an arts and service organization committed to healing through the arts and dialogue. In 2006, he was a U.S. Embassy Culture Connect Envoy to South Africa and taught the course, “Movement, Healing, Ritual, and Performance” at the University of Ghana-Legon and is the co-producer and editor of the film, “ We Are All One: The Jews of Sefwi Wiawso.” McKinney is a former member of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Bejart Ballet Lausanne, and Alonzo King’s LINES Ballet.
