new CI workshops in Chicago and Wisconsin 🌈

[Eryn Rosenthal]

Hi Detroit and Ann Arbor contacters! 

Some of you know me from my artist residency at U-M, when I taught contact and composition, or when I did my MFA there; some of you know me from my teaching at the Freiburg Festival or NYC. This local Detroit girl is thrilled to be returning to the midwest ✨ with two very special CI workshops, investigating connections in movement in contact, improvisation, and political movements. These workshops come from my ongoing research on anti-Apartheid and democratic activism, and my collaborations with artists and activists in South Africa, Chile, Spain and the US.

Both workshops are geared for all levels, and have local housing options if you’re up for springtime travel. The first workshop is in Chicago from May 8-10 (Early bird discount until April 20!), and the second is near Madison, Wisconsin from June 5-7 (early bird discount until May 1). More info below. If funds are an issue, please get in touch with the organizers. I’d love to dance with you this spring!

Bring your friends, spread the word, and I hope to dance with you again very soon :)

Big love, NCAA Championships, and hope,

Eryn 💙💛💜

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Eryn Rosenthal
Investigative choreographer | director | social practice artist
Visiting Professor, Yale University
www.erynrosenthal.com
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Date: April 13, 2026 at 4:16:55 PM EDT
Subject: Coming this spring: two new workshops in Chicago and Wisconsin 🌈
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 Spring has sprung! 🌸 Come dance with me in two fun new workshops ☀️🤸🏻‍♀️

View this email in your browser Happy Spring, beautiful people 🌷✨ And warm greetings fresh back from Spain! Where I've been starting a new creation process and premiering Nosotrxs como verbo (We as a verb), a new workshop. More about both in future dispatch. But first, I can’t wait to share with you two exciting and related new workshops I’ll be leading stateside this spring, coming out of my research on connections in movement: in contact, improvisation, and in political movements. Both workshops are geared for all levels, and have local housing options if you’re up for springtime travel. The content will be complementary, if you want to take them both.  Bring your friends, and come join us for fun springtime dancing in Chicago and Wisconsin! 🌈 I can’t wait to dance with you soon. More info below. Besazo Eryn 💜 . Co-here: The body in relational practice (a.k.a. Nosotrxs como verbo) Cristóbal Racordon, Eryn Rosenthal, David Legue, Josefa Torres Cifuentes, Diego Clark Rojas, and Paula Aguirre in Sedimento: Ensayos de cuerpo y memoria (Sediment: Studies in Movement and Memory). Photo by Jannel Lobos.  .  💥 CO-HERE: the body in relational practice (a.k.a. Nosotrxs como verbo)  Movement-based workshop with choreographer and social practice artist Eryn Rosenthal 📆 May 8-10 at Mind Body Connections, Chicago 🐦‍⬛ Early bird discount through April 20 📝 Registration required . 🧬 If all political movements are movements of people, the movement of bodies model how a democracy can move, as sociologist and dance scholar Randy Martin observes. In this movement-based workshop, we’ll explore the body as laboratory for capacious and dynamic practice, relational to the core: examining dialogue, choice-making, participation and power dynamics, foundational elements of democracy. Employing techniques of contact improvisation and real-time composition, we’ll examine questions of scale, texture, breath and breadth at intersections between the political and compositional.  All bodies, abilities and backgrounds are actively welcome.  . Read more Questions? Ask Kellyn: kellyne...@gmail.com   REGISTER FOR CO-HERE Freedom from, Freedom to, Freedom with: Practices of Freedom in Contact and Improvisation David Legue, Paula Aguirre, Cristóbal Racordon, Diego Clark Rojas, Josefa Torres Cifuentes and Eryn Rosenthal in Sedimento: Ensayos de cuerpo y memoria (Sediment: Studies in Movement and Memory). Photo by Felipe Diaz Galarce.  .   Freedom From, Freedom To, Freedom With: Practices of Freedom in Contact and Improvisation Contact and improvisation workshop with Eryn Rosenthal 📆 June 5-7 at the Rumpus Room 15 Brodhead St. Mazomanie, WI 🦅 Early bird discount through May 1 📝 Register for Practices of Freedom in Contact and Improvisation . In June, please join me for a continuation of the Chicago material in Wisconsin. Practices of Freedom is a movement-based, contact and improvisation workshop focusing on the relationship between freedom/ restraint/ structure, in our dancing, poetics and politics.  Note: The Chicago workshop is not a pre-requisite for Practices of Freedom. All bodies, abilities and backgrounds are actively welcome in both workshops.  Get in touch with the organizers for both if price is a barrier. . Digging into questions and practices of freedom, in this movement-based workshop we’ll examine angles of agency within limitation: physical, interpersonal, poetic and political. Adapting strategies from permaculture, Glitch feminism, Black consciousness, architecture and the visual arts, we’ll play with spatial navigation, shapes, time and momentum embedded into our study of change, at varying degrees of proximity and weight-sharing. Together / in solo solodancingdoesn’texist, we’ll fold outwards and in toward assemblages and structures, both architectural and interpersonal. Through task-based movement improvisation steeped in prepositional energetics (from, to, with; in, out, alongside), as well as embodied writing, drawing and poetic analysis, we’ll call and respond in close collaboration with our interior / exterior landscapes.  . Read a fuller description of the workshop    Questions? Ask Mars: wildrump...@gmail.com . REGISTER FOR PRACTICES OF FREEDOM . More info on upcoming workshops and creation in Europe and the US coming soon. In the meantime, drop me a line and let me know what’s happening with you! Big hugs of reality, hope and inspiration, Eryn 🌬️🕊️💜✨   . -- Eryn Rosenthal Investigative choreographer | social practice artist Visiting Professor, Yale University www.erynrosenthal.com The Doors Project Support the creation of B-side/ Doña Quijota  and Dance and Democracy HERE Copyright © 2026 Eryn Rosenthal, All rights reserved. You're receiving this email because either you signed up to receive more info on my work, we connected somewhere, or you supported The Doors Project on Kickstarter, and I wanted to keep you posted on my projects. Our mailing address is: Eryn Rosenthal Let's get coffee Brooklyn, New York 11216 Add us to your address book Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.