We offer you our shared and individual approaches to making work. This dance intensive provides space and time to discover/uncover/rediscover the bare essentials of what you need to make work that matters to you, make work no matter what.

We practice and we practice and we practice.

We will spend time in FloorSpace Movement Studio located in Boulder, CO, as well as out and about in nearby Eldora.

10am - 1pm Somatic Practices into Creative Process

2-5pm Making Scores

Sunday in Eldora

10am-3pm (lunch 12-1) Moving our Practices: Making dances on and with each other while on the move (dress for hiking and weather)

Zap and Julie have been in an ongoing artistic dialogue for nearly 20 years, beginning with the zen monkey project in Charlottesville, VA, continuing in Athens and Atlanta, GA, at Performática in Cholula, Mexico, and as members of Chicken Bank Collective. We love working together because of how our minds expand as we collaborate, how we make things happen together that we could simply not make on our own. We challenge and support each other to make work no matter what. And we invite you to join us!

Website: julierothschildmovement.com/practice-of-making?

Zap McConnell began investigating dance/movement performance at North Carolina School of the Arts (NCSA) in 1988. Upon leaving NCSA, she began traveling, splitting her time between performance, visual arts and direct environmental activism in Northern California, NYC, Idaho, Mexico, Costa Rica and Colorado. Zap has been involved with the Zen Monkey Project (ZMP) since 1995 performing, teaching, stage managing, producing and directing evening-length pieces. She facilitated the New Dance Space and co-facilitated Studio 11 at the McGuffey Art Center, organized performance festivals and ZMP’s summer dance intensives. Zap is also a visual artist who regularly creates and prints cartoon books, paints, makes murals, sculpture and who builds performance installation sets that also include lights and costumes. Zap has been a main organizer for many large scale community endeavors, spanning from a huge local artist created carnival (A Charlottesville Wunderkammer), to an in-depth political community weekend investigating the past and present of Native Americans (Columbus Day; Myth and the American Dream), to the adoption, with the stream ecology class, of a highly impaired stream for over ten years. Zap was a full time core teacher at the Living Education Center for Ecology and the Arts, an alternative high school in Charlottesville, Virginia, for almost a decade.

Since 2008, Zap has split her time between U.S.A. and Mexico; and between performances, art shows and teaching. In Mexico Zap started her connection by a commission from Performatica (an International Dance Festival) to make a site specific performance on the campus of UDLAP, working with students of Dance and Visual Arts in order to explore the history of the land. She has returned countless times as a guest artist, teaching and making more work with UDLAP students, at Performatica for 6 years and working with local artists in Cholula/Puebla. In the U.S.A. Zap has had over a dozen art shows (N.C./V.A.), created @hand productions, been part of many Dance Festivals, planned/produced/participated in countless Artistic Residencies, and performed/built sets/ran tech/toured/consulted for Theater/Art/Dance groups. Zap co-created the Chicken Bank Collective (CBC), an interdisciplinary and international arts collective, the fall of 2014, then relocated to North Carolina to create her art studio: CABIN. Zap (with-in CBC) has been invited to be part of On-site/In-site Dance Festival 2 years in a row (Spring 2016/2017). She is currently screening her first feature length Dance for Film: Secondary Succession she directed and co-created with CBC.

Email: zzzzaapp@hotmail.com
Website: zapmcconnell.com

Independent Dance Artist and Movement Educator, Choreographer and Director, Alexander Technique Teacher, Nordic Ski Instructor and Mother of Boys. I live in Boulder, Colorado and share my love of movement through dance making, performance, film and teaching throughout the world, in person and online.

Dance has been a determined and consistent thread in my life. There were a few tutus and sequins early on in our Northern California years. Then a new found love of launching into the air in Cindy Carmazzi's ballet classes in Urbana, Ohio. A well-timed intersection with Modern Dance in Hudson, Ohio with Emilie Bromley during the teen years. Improvisation and Composition at Colorado College with Peggy Berg. Teaching summer campers dance on tennis courts. Returning to my high school to teach and make a wild and slightly messy dance about the desert. An attempt at getting an MFA at Ohio State. One year later moving to Lawrence, KS where I met the astounding Candi Baker, who not only hired me but gave me so much room to experiment with making, performing, collaborating and teaching - my Lawrence Arts Center years easily gave me the skills and hutzpah to walk into any situation and see the potential for dance to happen. Onto Charlottesville, VA where I met a crew of soulmates in the Zen Monkey Project/New Dance Space, plus Live Arts and Miki Liszt. One son was born, then another. Somewhere in there was a year at the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange where I met and worked with incredible artists, in particular - Celeste Miller with whom I still share dances. In Athens, GA there was teaching, lots of teaching and a whole lot of work - Warehouse Collective, UGA, Emory, FloorspaceAthens, Canopy Studio, The Handful Series, Zen Monkey Project Intensives. For three of those nine years, I travelled back and forth to train as an Alexander Technique Teacher at CBAS in Greensboro, NC. The myriad of mentors I had in that time, with Robin Gilmore and Marsha Paludan at the helm, shared their breadth of knowledge with such creativity and generosity. And then Boulder, where I now have a creative home in FloorSpaceStudio, a space that I get to share with some of Boulder's finest movement artists and educators. Helping me make it all make sense are my creative collaborators in Chicken Bank Collective, the incredible artists I meet each year at Performática, a through line of dancers I've met along the way, my teaching partner Zap McConnell and the dancers contributing to MAPS, making and performing solos anew, an online group solo and choreography exchange project. Currently, I am teaching Studies in Alexander Technique at the College of Music at CU Boulder, Stepping Outside the Studio - an AT Workshop in Boulder with Shawn Copeland, as well as AT group and private lessons at FloorSpace Studio.

Email: julie@julierothschildmovement.com
Website: julierothschildmovement.com