Workshops for Adults

Objectify yourself!

instructor: Kara Beadle

Sunday, March 1st 2:30-4:30

Bainbridge Dance Center

$30

In this beginner/open level creative process workshop we will draw movement inspiration from everyday objects, create and animate characters within our bodies and design the world in which our characters live. Using structured improvisation and character building tools from role-playing games, Kara guides you to consider how you relate to, desire, and embody the literal and implied aspects of an object. Bring an object you love with you, find an object, or borrow one when you arrive and become its deepest desires and secrets.

TO REGISTER: Go the BDC Webstore and scroll down to Adult Workshops. Reach out to mail@bainbridgedancecenter.com with any questions.

This summer Kara Beadle will teach the Beginner Cohort at Velocity Dance Center’s Seattle Festival of Dance + Improvisation. This is a great opportunity to try out Kara's choreographic process! The Beginner Cohort is for adults who want to dive into the world of dance in Seattle. This cohort meets in the evening three days a week. Participants in this cohort will start by taking beginner technique classes in the styles of Contemporary and House. The focus of this cohort is to create a supportive environment for people new to dance to take risks, get in their bodies, and find a shared practice within the community. This year the Beginner Cohort will make a new dance in collaboration with Kara Beadle. This workshop is an introduction to Kara’s choreographic process to give you a taste of what working with them this summer will be like! Read more here: https://summer.velocitydancecenter.org/beginner-performance-cohort/

Kara Beadle (they/them) is a movement artist, dance educator, and massage therapist based in Seattle, WA. As a non-binary, neuro-queer dance maker, Kara values queering dance through humor, improvisation, and object/human relationships to explore their interest in the interplay between neurodivergence, gender-nonconformance, the pressure to fit into society, and performative art. Kara is a lead collaborator of Heap, a Seattle-based performance troupe created with musician and handyman extraordinaire Andy Zacek and several rotating artists. Their experimental theatrics celebrate abundance, while critiquing overconsumption. Inside the fantasy worlds they build, Heap designs absurd scenarios between objects and bodies to subvert objectification and flaunt our lust for inanimate things.