Presented as part of our Fall/Winter 2025 guest artist workshop series:
Improvising with our Ecosystems: a Laboratory and Introduction to Improvising with Movement, Sound, and Self-Audio Description with Shannon Brooks
About Shannon Brooks:
Shannon Brooks is a multi-sensory, multimedia artist working across movement, sound, sculpture, moving image, installation, and social-based practices.
Shannon’s work combines the heightened ritual of performance with the glorious imperfections of process. Their practice revels in the seams and edges of their work, lingers within transitions, and creates strange worlds. Shannon is a self-identified freak/weirdo and uses play and clowning to embrace the nonsensical. Their practice is iterative and spans time, it shifts form and medium to experiment to follow a thread of research or question, is it archival, it pierces into other dimensions.
As a Disabled and low-vision person, Shannon believes access is for everyone, is always transforming, and is a creative force that transforms time, space, and power structures.
About This Intensive Workshop Series:
Improvising with our Ecosystems is laboratory to experiment with different approaches to improvisation, ground into your body’s impulses, explore imaginative embodiments, and play with self-audio description improv with live music.
Workshop Dates and Details:
These four workshops are set up to build on one another but can be taken separately.
They will be offered virtually on Zoom.
Each workshop is two hours long:
Thursday classes will run from 6 PM to 8 PM (Eastern Time) and will introduce new improvisation concepts
Saturday classes will run from 4 PM to 6 PM (Eastern Time) and will provide opportunities to more deeply explore those concepts while listening to live music!
- Thursday, October 9th: Improvising with our Interior Ecosystems: improvising with our bodies, impulses, memories, and self audio description.
- Saturday, October 11th: Improvising with our Interior Ecosystems: review + practice laboratory with live music.
- Thursday, October 16th: Improvising with our Exterior Ecosystems: improvising with our environments, materials, and others.
- Saturday, October 18th: Improvising with our Exterior Ecosystems: review + practice laboratory with live music.
To register for this workshop series, send an email to info@darkroomballet.com with the subject line Improvising with our Ecosystems