EveryBody Dances with Nach

EveryBody Dances @ Yale Schwarzman Center brings local and visiting dance artists to our Dance Studio to teach masterclasses in jazz, hip hop, salsa, modern, contemporary, precision dance and more! All community members are welcome.

This week French choreographer Nach offers a Krump dance workshop, drawing on her hybrid training in Krump, butoh, and other contemporary styles. Participants can expect to learn the fundamentals of Krump—postures, movement qualities, and facial expressivity—as a way to tell new stories through their bodies. This open workshop explores the relationship between group and solo movement, ways of summoning and moving between expressive characters, techniques for linking the imagination and dance expression, and the use of breathing and voice to structure Krump movement. Everyone is welcome to join!

French choreographer Nach entered the world of dance through Krump, which she discovered in 2008. Since then, she has performed as a dancer and choreographer with artists such as choreographer Gisèle Vienne and composers Koki Nakano and Ruth Rosenthal (as part of Winter Family Collective). She launched her solo career in 2017 with Cellule, followed by Beloved Shadows in 2019. The latter came out of a period of dance research in Japan which allowed Nach to dive into the worlds of Noh, Bunraku, and most importantly Butoh dance. Since then, she has continued to grow her multidisciplinary practice, moving between dance, video, visual art, and language. This has resulted, most recently, in her dance lecture Nulle part est un endroit (2021), which explores her own journey through Krump and butoh, her group work Elles Disent (2022), and a video installation for the Dance Biennale of Lyon, Scène pour récit nu (2023). See more on Nach and her work here: nachvan.com

To watch Nach perform an adapted version of Nulle part est un endroit, join us on Saturday Nov. 2 at 53 Wall Street for the final event of Butoh Scores, followed by a reception at the Macmillan Center. Free and open to all! No registration required, but seats are limited. 

READ Why Don't We Dance More, in The New York Times.

READ 'You Think, So You Can Dance?' Science Is on It., in The New York Times.