Movement Workshop with Juliana F. May at Base

Please join us on Thursday, March 26, from 10 AM to 12 PM for NYC-based Choreographer Juliana F. May’s Movement Workshop, Choreographic Idiom!

Developed over the past 10 years, Choreographic Idiom is an improvisation-based class where you can work on dancing, performing, and choreographic process all within the same framework. In class, we upend typical structural strongholds by moving away from a mode of doing and a mode of processing. Can we do an improvisation or a series of exercises that are not about development or the "culminating idea"? Exercises, dancing/performing, and conversation are permitted to co-exist without having to constantly make sense of each other. Can this shift away from the notion of "culminating ideas" lead us deeper into radicalizing our choreographic and performative habits? This is an opportunity to come work on your work in a supportive and experimental setting. This is essentially an open score improvisation class.
Choreographic Idiom Movement Workshop:
March 26 10 AM to 12 PM
You can learn more about Juliana .

About the Base Residency:
The Base Residency is a unique, artist-curated program offering unrestricted space, the opportunity to publicly share work, technical, marketing, and administrative support, travel and lodging for out-of-town artists, and a fee of $1,000 per residency week. The ‘25-’26 Residency Season was curated by Parisa Ghaderi, Joseph Hernandez, and Keyes Wiley. This year, the Base Residency offers six artists—three from the Seattle area and three from beyond—two weeks of immersive creative time at Base between January and July 2026. Since 2016, more than 30 artists have completed Base Residencies as the program continues to evolve and grow within a national context. Meet Base Residency Alumni here.

“The Base Artist Residency was crucial to the development of RoCoCoCoCo and indeed, my continued evolution as a creative artist. Having time and space to live in the questions of my work, to listen to my body, and to be in conversation with my dancing collaborators teaches me. Base offered me enough time to let the ideas establish themselves. This generosity feels like trust - like the institution/Base trusts the artists, and this allows the artists to trust the art/themselves.”

Heather Kravas (WA)2024-2025 Base Resident Artist

Flourish:
In 2024, Base launched —a three-year fundraising effort to support residencies, organizational capacity, and new community-facing programs. Now, as Base celebrates its 10th anniversary, we’re entering Year Two of Flourish—building on momentum as we acknowledge the realities artists face today. If you’re unable to attend this event, but would like to support Base, please consider donating to our campaign.

Accessibility at Base:
The Factory has a ramped entrance at the north end of the building (through the orange door). The building has limited exterior lighting, making it sometimes difficult to navigate and locate when it's dark.

Once inside, Base is accessible by ramp through our front doors. Please note that Base is not a scent-free space. The Factory has two gender neutral multi-stall restrooms and two single-stall restrooms that are wheelchair accessible. Because we share a building with other studios, there is often industrial noise and heavy machinery in operation, such as forklifts.

Any additional accessibility needs/requests for the show? Reach out to [email protected]

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