Practicing Location:
Outdoor River Practice with ARTservancy artist Mauriah Donegan Kraker
Sunday, June 27th, 2021 | 10am- 12pm
$10; limited spaces, advance registration required
*half of proceeds go to supporting River Revitalization Foundation
Location: Kern Park at the baseball diamond
3614 N Humboldt Blvd, Milwaukee, WI 53212
*street parking on the north + west sides of the park
We meet in Kern Park, at the baseball diamond, then head down the Milwaukee River to practice being together with each other, our bodies, the place we are in. We’ll spend time with the river’s edges/boundaries in order to check in and improvise with our new and shifting solo and collective edges, interests, curiosities, and boundaries. Workshop is best suited for movement/performance/theatre practitioners interested in outdoor, somatic and improvisational practices.
Dress for the weather and for the ground underfoot.
Mask is a must! Social distancing is part of the practice.
No one turned away for lack of funds (seriously, just get in touch – I want you to be here!)
Supplies: outdoor blanket/fabric to lay down on, sunscreen, bug spray, water/snack
Mauriah Donegan Kraker is a midwesterner, a collaborative performance maker, a walker, movement artist, teacher. She is an advocate for slow travel: walking around the block and through the city as a means of attending to choreographic unfolding of time cycles in the body + land. She has led folks on site walks through the Italian Alps, sound walks in southern France, and outings to highway underpasses and prairies in the Midwest- the walks culminating in participatory events and dance performance. Find her teaching at Lawrence University and walking near the Milwaukee River/Potawatomi, Ojibwe, Ho-Chunk, Menominee land where she is serving as ARTservancy Artist in Residence of the Milwaukee River Greenway. @mauriahk
These practice draws on the outdoor improvised movement exercises I’ve been working with for the past few years. I am grateful to the following places + folks in these places, that taught me: the Illinois prairie, a small fishing village in Central America, forest preserves in Michigan, a medieval town in the mountains of France.