The body is always listening, recording and computing. This movement-based class will take place over three three sessions at the School for Poetic Computation. We will focus on the body's innate ability to absorb information consciously through cognitive practice, and unconsciously through physical action and proprioception. We will look closely at how we learn with our bodies and what gets in the way. We will consider how creative bodily impulses are expressed and suppressed.

Image: David Rafael Botana, Cori Kresge, and Stacy Martorana. Photo: Cunningham Repertory Understudy Group at the Merce Cunningham Studio
Lead by movement teacher, performer, and writer Cori Kresge, this class will cultivate practices that attempt to override the ego constructs that obstruct the innate methods by which the body records and processes information. This allows for more physical efficiency, spontaneity, enjoyment, and creativity. Cori Kresge will collaborate with dancer Cori Olinghouse, SFPC cofounder Taeyoon Choi and Teaching Assistant Maya Man to lead explorations in movement (codes) and body (systems). Through movement activities and presentations, students will examine and express their ideas about the Body, Movement and the Unconscious Resource working collaboratively and individually toward the course objectives.

Image: Cori Kresge in Like You, by Liz Magic Laser, 2014, Le Mouvement - Performing the City, Biel/Bienne, Switzerland. Photo: Meyer & Kangangi

Image: Cori Kresge workshop at Code Ecologies. Photo: Joe Swide 
Schedule
Feb 10. 10 - 1 PM Feb 17. 10 - 1 PM Feb 24. 10 - 1 PM 
Course objectives include:

Experiencing memory and energy held in the body’s hard and soft tissues, ie: bone, muscle, skin, etc.

Overriding the mental inhibitions that hinder creativity and expression.

Challenging the notions of how you can or should move in your own body and in space.

Connecting and activating our perceptions of the internal and external, the imagined and the real.

Tapping the unconscious resources of the body’s innate intelligence.

Reimagining our physical relationship to technology, objects, and living beings.

Note from the instructor: 
This class will be highly physical, pursuing a maximum sense of awareness in movement, while respecting and considering each person's range of ability. Open to everyone. Disabled person is  welcome to participate. Physical contact will be part of certain experiences with attention towards safety, respect, and care.
Each class will start with a simple warm up to activate body, senses, and space. Participants will be lead through varrious forms of movement research, improvisation, and repetition of phrases from dance repertory, drawing on some of Kresge's experiences as a performer in works by Merce Cunningham, Liz Magic Laser, and Rashaun Mitchell + Silas Riener. Participants will develop, teach, and share their own movement sequences with each other in a laboratory setting. The 3rd and final class will culminate with brief presentations that express the participant's own physical discoveries and may connect to other creative spheres or fields of research.

About the instructor:

Cori Kresge is a NYC based dancer, collaborator, writer, and teacher. Kresge graduated from SUNY Purchase with a BFA in dance and the Dean's Award. She was a member of the Sri Chinmoy Meditation Center and International Vocal Ensemble. Kresge has been a member of the Merce Cunningham Repertory Understudy Group, functioning as a living archive for Cunningham works from the 60's, 70's, and 80's. In 2016 Kresge staged Cunningham's Field Dances, an improvisational score, on students of CNDC, Angers, France. She has also been a member of José Navas/Compagnie Flak, and Stephen Petronio Company. Kresge currently collaborates and performs with various artists including Rashaun Mitchell+Silas Riener, Liz Magic Laser, Rebecca Lazier, Xavier Cha, Esmé Boyce, Ellen Cornfield, Sarah Skaggs, Bill Young, Wendy Osserman, Sally Silvers, The School for Poetic Computation, and film makers Alla Kovgan, Zuzka Kurtz, and Charles Atlas. She has taught technique and improvisation at NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Bard College, Dickinson College, Barnard College, Princeton University, the Dalton School, and other institutions. Kresge also teaches the Little Creators preschool program at Church Street School for Music and Art in NYC. She is currently studying Zero Balancing, a therapeutic bodywork.
Co-teacher for Feb 17 class 

Cori Olinghouse is an interdisciplinary artist, archivist, and curator. Her work has been commissioned by Danspace Project, New York Live Arts, BRIC Arts Media, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Movement Research, and Brooklyn Museum of Art. She is the founder and director of The Portal Project, a living archives initiative dedicated to the transmission of performance through archival and curatorial frameworks. She holds an MA in Performance Curation from the Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance at Wesleyan University and serves as visiting faculty at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College.
Teaching assistant 

Maya Man is a Brooklyn based technologist. Currently, she works as a fiver at the Google Creative Lab, making experiments that combine her love for art and code. Maya graduated from Pomona College with a double major in Computer Science and Media Studies with a focus in digital production. She spends most of her time creating exploratory new media work, dancing in studios and public spaces, and maintaining her love/hate relationship with the internet (mostly love though).
Movement, Memory, and the Unconscious Resource. Workshop by Cori Kresge at SFPC is organized by Taeyoon Choi (SFPC). If anyone has a need for ASL, CART or other accessibility support, please contact taeyoon@sfpc.io We will do our best to support your participation.