Chrysa Parkinson at La Caldera
SPORÁ PRÓGRAMME with CHRYSA PARKINSON from March 4 to 8, from 10am to 2pm at La Caldera
Front, Facing and Dis/orientation
Chrysa Parkinson is a dancer living in Brussels and Berkeley, California. She lived in New York for many years and performed with Tere O’Connor Dance, Irene Hultman, Mia Lawrence, Jennifer Monson and Mark Dendy, among others. She began traveling to Belgium in 2000 to work on improvisational performance with Zoo/Thomas Hauert and David Zambrano. Since then she has also performed with: Veli Lehtovaara, Remy Heritier, Boris Charmatz, Andros Zins-Browne, Rosas/Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Jonathan Burrows, Mette Ingvartsen, Philip Gehmacher , Eszter Salomon , John Jasperse, Deborah Hay, Alix Euynadi , Meg Stuart and Joaquim Koester. She has taught in the US, Europe and Australia, and yearly at P.A.R.T.S. since 1998. Chrysa’s writing and films have been published and distributed internationally. Her most recent project, The Dancer as Agent Collection, is available at Oralsite.be. Chrysa is a Professor of Dance and Director of the New Performative Practices MFA program at DOCH in Stockholm.
Chrysa Parkinson will present her performing work Disorienting Front, Saturday, March 9, at 20.30 at La Caldera.