Practice Makes Imperfect
Morning dance class series for the month of March, valuing process, play, and an ongoing practice towards imperfection.
Through a primarily somatic lens, we will move through actions, efforts, and improvisational tasks; cultivating embodied awareness around that which is already present, in order to potentiate that which we don't already know. Practice Makes Imperfect invites us to show up in our bodies, as they are; and with a rigor, curiosity, and delight towards dance practice as expansive, ongoing, uniquely unfamiliar, and perfectly imperfect.
Tuesdays, March 3, 10, 17
Friday, March 27
Monday, March 30
All classes are from 10am - 12pm
Sliding Scale $15-$20/class
Or $65 for the whole series
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Joe Goode Annex
401 Alabama Street, SF
Register by sending payment to Venmo, with a note stating the date/s you will attend. Drop-ins are welcome.
Jennifer Perfilio (she/her) is a multi-disciplinary performer, movement artist, choreographer, and teaching artist working and living on the unceded lands of the Ramaytush Ohlone, aka San Francisco. She is the founder and Artistic Director of Jennifer Perfilio Movement Works (JPMW), a not for profit dance organization that creates ongoing, public performance activations in urban landscapes, with particular concerns around collective intimacy, sustainability, and the intersection of art and everydayness. As a performer, Jennifer has worked with choreographers in NYC (Lenapehoking territory) and the Bay Area, including Alexandra Beller, Mary Carbonara, HT Chen, Jess Curtis/Gravity, Mark Dendy, Aura Fischbeck, Katie Faulkner, Amy Foley, Christy Funsch, Irene Hsi, Stephan Koplowitz, and Charles Moulton, among others. For ten years she worked with Kim Epifano and Epiphany Dance Theater in various roles, such as Performer, Assistant Artistic Director, and Rehearsal Director, as well as a liaison and teacher for “Kids on Track,” a program of SF Trolley Dances, which introduced site-specific dance performance to school students in the Bay Area. Her teaching practice is primarily based in somatic and score-based practices, with curiosities also around anatomically-based movement inquiry, and site responsiveness; and is inspired by aforementioned choreographers, as well as teachers she has studied with over the years including Jim Coleman, Therese Freeman, Wally Cardona, Sherwood Chen, Miriam Wolordoski, Rosemary Hannon, Sara Shelton Mann, and Kathleen Hermsedorff, among others. Jennifer holds a BA degree in Dance, with a minor in Spanish Language from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.