{image1}Jennifer S. Holmes, a professor, writer and performer currently living outside of Los Angeles, will return to Milwaukee to teach a week-long, multi-media performance collaboration called "Assumptions: Making an ASS out of You and Me."
The intensive workshop will run from Saturday, May 22 to Friday, May 28 at Darling Hall, 601 S. 6th St., and will feature classes that combine and juxtapose dance, performance, sound, image and text. The session will conclude with an installation and public performance on Friday, May 28.
"I would say that this class is for both performers and non-performers alike," says Holmes, who directed over 30 works in Chicago, Milwaukee and the Los Angeles area. "People should be aware of the fact that a large focus of this work will be collaborative in nature, culminating in a performance."
The workshops preceding the performance will incorporate movement, improvisation, sound and writing, and participants will explore social, cultural, gendered, sexual and personal assumptions.
Classes will be taught during the day on the weekends, and in the evenings during the week.
"People can expect to come away with new creative tools and perhaps a sense of where their own creative spirit wants to go next," says Holmes, who holds her PhD in performance studies from Northwestern University, her MA in theater from Northwestern University and her BA in painting and printmaking, minoring in dance, from S.U.N.Y. Purchase.
"Jennifer Holmes conducted a series of performance art workshops at Woodland Pattern a few years ago. I participated and found her a potent coach and leader," says Pegi Taylor. "I will be taking the workshop for sure."
The cost for the workshop will be $150 per person if there are 10-12 people, and $200 if there are less than 10 people. Call (414) 347-7544 for more information.
Molly Snyder started writing and publishing her work at the age 10, when her community newspaper printed her poem, "The Unicorn.” Since then, she's expanded beyond the subject of mythical creatures and written in many different mediums but, nearest and dearest to her heart, thousands of articles for OnMilwaukee.
Molly is a regular contributor to FOX6 News and numerous radio stations as well as the co-host of "Dandelions: A Podcast For Women.” She's received five Milwaukee Press Club Awards, served as the Pfister Narrator and is the Wisconsin State Fair’s Celebrity Cream Puff Eating Champion of 2019.
