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Physical Theatre Perspectives is a rigorous play space for curious makers and performers, seeking to deepen their integrated moving and acting approaches to theatre making. Human and fantastical movement/aural devising in this class will allow artists to approach historical, avant-garde, experimental, body-oriented theatre, socially engaged theatre, and conceptual performance practices from a place of group devising. Special attention to scale for immersive theatre and identity will be addressed to ensure we play our best fiction thanks to its relationship to our reality.

 

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Stefanie Batten Bland (SBB) global maker, 2024 NYSCA artist, 2023 Dance Magazine Cover Artist, 2022 BAM Next Wave Commissioned artist, straddles the artistic scenes of NYC and France. Born to a jazz composer father and a writer mother, she was raised in SoHo when it was led by artists. Batten Bland’s work profoundly explores contemporary and historical cultural symbolism, the body as a political statement, our cultural identifiers, and their influence in our global human relationships. 

SBB creates proscenium, cinematic and  immersive worlds that answer the quest for belonging. As the Artistic Director for Company SBB, Creative Casting & Movement Director for Life & Trust,Performance-Identity liaison for Sleep No More, and the Artistic Director of the first immersive theatre summer intensive CONCRETE, she is constantly pushing the boundaries of mixed reality art. 

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SBB danced for Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, Lar Lubovitch, Tanztheater Wüppertal Pina Bausch, Hungarian choreographer Pal Frenák, Jérome Savary at the Paris Opéra Comique, Georges Mombôye of the Côte d’Ivoire, and PunchDrunk. 

SBB’s work has been recently presented at Danse Lille (France), Spoleto Festival (Italy), Lincoln Center, and Bates Dance Festival... SBB has recently received Creative Capital, Harkness Foundation, Dance Advancement Fund, and NEFA grants—she is an assistant professor at Montclair State University.