Body Mapping Workshop with Anabella Lenzu
Workshop led by Anabella Lenzu - Body Mapping
Presented as part of NEXT! Workshop series at The Clemente. A Low-impact workshop series by Pioneers Go East Collective
Free workshop. All are welcome! RSVP
When: Saturday March 4th I 2:00p-3:30p
NEXT! Workshops at The Clemente. A free and low-impact series of workshops featuring guest teaching artists. Welcoming & accessible to everybody.
Body Mapping
It's not the artwork that matters; it's the message. During the workshop, participants will use drawings to share their stories. Drawing their body on large rolls of paper, this 90-minutes workshop explores how our bodies become receptacles and messengers of the multiple realities we are immersed in. Using drawings to share stories, the workshop challenges the participants to think about how they view their stories in relationship with themselves and their bodies.Body maps are a way of storytelling, much like totems that contain symbols with different meanings. Body maps allow us to connect with our memories and emotions to give voice and visibility to one's identity.
All guests will be required to be fully vaccinated (please bring proof of vaccination). All visitors will be required to wear a face-covering at all times while they are at The Clemente. In addition, all surfaces are being sanitized on a regular basis.
Anabella Lenzu Originally from Argentina, Anabella Lenzu is a dancer, choreographer, scholar & educator with over 30 years of experience working in Argentina, Chile, Italy, and the USA. Lenzu directs her own company, Anabella Lenzu/DanceDrama (ALDD), which since 2006 has presented 400 performances, created 15 choreographic works and performed at 100 venues, presenting thought provoking and historically conscious dance-theater in NYC.
As a choreographer, she has been commissioned all over the world for opera, TV programs, theatre productions, and by many dance companies. She has produced and directed several award-winning short dance films and screened her work in over 200 festivals both nationally and internationally.
Lenzu founded her own dance school L’Atelier Centro Creativo de Danza in 1994 in Argentina, and as an educator for more than 30 years, she has been teaching in more than 50 institutions, including universities, professional dance studios, companies, festivals, and symposiums in the USA, Canada, Ireland, Egypt, Australia, Panamá, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, London, and Italy.
In 2022, Anabella received the Innovative Dance Educator Award by NYSDEA (New York State Dance Education Association), acknowledging her work as a dance educator who develops innovative pedagogy in the dance field, with an established record of exemplary leadership and groundbreaking teachings that have a significant impact on dance.
Lenzu has written for various dance and arts magazines, and published her first book in 2013, entitled Unveiling Motion and Emotion. The book contains writings in Spanish and English on the importance of dance, community, choreography, and dance pedagogy.
Currently, Lenzu conducts classes at NYU Gallatin, School of Visual Arts, and Peridance Center.