It's hard to write a brief blurb about yourself when it starts like this: I graduated with a degree in Performing Arts and Social Justice, with an emphasis in Dance. I ended up in Los Angeles where I'm attempting to start a business and make my way as an artist. One day, I woke up and went hey, I think I'm actually a starving artist. I primarily perform as a professional belly dancer, but also still have the occasional modern dance gig.
These are the things that Inspire me and the things (I like to think) I've learned, especially about being a dancer in LA. I also like to pass on information about classes, auditions and more in Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
from Making Faces Productions…
February 20, 2010 1 - 5 p.m. $75 Diavolo Dance Theatre Space 616 Moulton Ave. (in the Brewery Arts Complex)/Los Angeles, CA 90031 In this workshop we will focus on meeting truthfully and directly the unexpected. Contact improvisation will be our entrance into the physicality of our images and applications of somatic practices will fine tune us to the mechanics of our instruments - our bodies.We will practice Contact Improvisation to become more tuned to center and subtleties of touch, direction and intention, exploring musicality and phrasing, the learning of specific lifts and rolls and how we craft time and space. Skills will include techniques to better understand the mechanics of the body and the practice of developmental patterns, body puzzles, and forms that shape the body and space with odd timings, unusual perspectives and surprising weight exchanges. Weight, mass and breath become movement, become landscape, become story, become question, become idea. We will play with heightening our senses and perceptions, amplifying our awareness to expose more of our interior, making the invisible visible to play with time and space. K.J. Holmes is an independent dance artist based in Brooklyn, New York who has been exploring improvisation as process and performance since 1981. She teaches, choreographs and performs at festivals, universities and venues throughout the world, as a soloist and in her collaborations with artists such as Simone Forti, Image Lab (Lisa Nelson, Karen Nelson and Scott Smith) and in the work of Steve Paxton. Her influences include Contact Improvisation, Body-Mind Centering (r), Yoga (certified teacher 2007), Authentic Movement, Ideokinesis, Alexander and Feldenkrais techniques, Martial Dance, world vocal studies and contemporary dance and theater. A 1999 graduate of the School for Body-Mind Centering, K.J. is adjunct faculty at New York University Experimental Theatre Wing, is an ongoing teacher with Movement Research/has a private practice in Dynamic Alignment and Reintegration and will be teaching at Princeton University Spring 2011. She finished a two year Meisner acting training at the William Esper Studio in New York City in 2007 and continues to study Grotowski based acting with Raina Von Waldenburg. She is currently developing an evening length piece entitled This is where we are (or take arms against a sea of troubles) which will be performed at the Chocolate Factory in Long Island City N.Y. March 9 - 12, 2011.
