AMPLIFIED
A Summer Workshop BY Alternative Motion Project
sponsored by Zenon Dance School
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JUNE 5th -8th | 10:00am-12:00pm
Contemporary Movement Practice Led by Joanna Lees, AMP Director Zenon Dance School 528 Hennepin Ave - FOURTH FLOOR Minneapolis, MN 55403 Get back into our bodies and the studio with AMPLIFIED: AMP's 4-day Contemporary Summer Workshop! Let's move, sweat, + explore mobility, length, momentum, 3-D expansion, while amplifying our physical possibilities in a curious, uplifting, + enlivening environment. Suitable for pre-professional/professional movers. Come as you are! REGISTRATION INFO**
Full Workshop, All 4 practices | $60 3 Practices (any days) | $48 2 Practices | $34 Drop in (Single Practice) | $18/practice Priority will be given to students who register. **No one will be turned away due to lack of funds. Please email [email protected] for low/no cost options that works for your needs. |
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About the AMPLIFIED Contemporary Movement Practice
Led by AMP Co-Director, Joanna Lees
Move BIG, sweat and play in an energizing atmosphere supported by pop hits. Participants will build awareness + explore expansive possibilities within their own individuality and identities. Through improvised + structured movement vocabulary, participants will be encouraged to research freedom, 3-D expansion, mobility, rigor, presence, + agency in choice-making + empowerment with each individual's own unique body.
Curiosity // Connection// Community // Choice // Change
Photo Credit: Todd Collins Photography
Led by AMP Co-Director, Joanna Lees
Move BIG, sweat and play in an energizing atmosphere supported by pop hits. Participants will build awareness + explore expansive possibilities within their own individuality and identities. Through improvised + structured movement vocabulary, participants will be encouraged to research freedom, 3-D expansion, mobility, rigor, presence, + agency in choice-making + empowerment with each individual's own unique body.
Curiosity // Connection// Community // Choice // Change
Photo Credit: Todd Collins Photography
Meet the Instructors
Joanna Lees (she/her)
Joanna Lees is a choreographer, performer, filmmaker, instructor + administrator based in Minneapolis, MN. Originally from the Washington, D.C. area, Joanna graduated cum laude with distinction in 2007 with a BFA in Dance and a minor in Business from The Ohio State University (Columbus, OH). At OSU, she was an Arts Scholar and the recipient of the Denman Undergraduate Research Forum Scholarship. Joanna studied with various artists including Bebe Miller, Susan Hadley, Karen Eliot Abigail Yager and Ming-Lung Yang. She performed Doug Varone’s Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring) in collaboration with BalletMet Columbus.
Since moving to the Twin Cities in 2008, Joanna has performed in works with and by several local dance artists including Penelope Freeh, Blake Nellis, Taja Will, Darrius Strong, Heather Klopchin, Jennifer Glaws, Erin Drummond, + Erinn Liebhard. Joanna also showcased her own choreography independently before co-founding the Minneapolis dance company, Alternative Motion Project alongside Kristin Howe in 2011. She has served as Co-Artistic Director and Executive Director since AMP’s inception, creating performing opportunities for Minneapolis artists, educational outreach programs for public school students and audience engagement initiatives.
Joanna’s work has been presented by the College of DuPage (Glen Ellyn, IL), The Moving Collective (Louisville, KY) and at the Midwest Regional Alternative Dance Festival (Kalamazoo, MI). Joanna enjoys the collaborative process including with COD professor/composer Lee Kesselman and Chicago visual artist René Romero Schuler. She also premiered her first multi-media dance work entitled #binge (2016) in Minneapolis.
In 2020, Joanna earned her Masters of Fine Arts degree in Dance at The University of Utah (Salt Lake City). Whilst there, she served as a Graduate Teaching Assistant in the School of Dance and received the L. Scott Marsh Mentorship Award & a University Teaching Assistantship. She performed works by Charles O. Anderson, Stephen Koester, Sara Pickett, Christine McMillan. She performed in work by Doug Varone in collaboration with Doug Varone and Dancers and was selected as a choreographer for Varone’s DEVICES mentorship program, showcasing her work, Spiral Into Control, in New York City in 2018. An excerpt of her MFA thesis, B E C O M I N G, was selected to represent University of Utah in performance for the American College Dance Association Northwest Regional Conference at Gonzaga University.
Joanna currently teaches weekly classes for AMP and Zenon Dance School. Joanna will be joining Winona State University in Fall 2022 as an Adjunct Faculty Member. Joanna will be transitioning into the role of sole Artistic + Executive Director of Alternative Motion Project in September 2022.
More about Joanna on her website.
Photo Credit: Bill Cameron
Joanna Lees is a choreographer, performer, filmmaker, instructor + administrator based in Minneapolis, MN. Originally from the Washington, D.C. area, Joanna graduated cum laude with distinction in 2007 with a BFA in Dance and a minor in Business from The Ohio State University (Columbus, OH). At OSU, she was an Arts Scholar and the recipient of the Denman Undergraduate Research Forum Scholarship. Joanna studied with various artists including Bebe Miller, Susan Hadley, Karen Eliot Abigail Yager and Ming-Lung Yang. She performed Doug Varone’s Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring) in collaboration with BalletMet Columbus.
Since moving to the Twin Cities in 2008, Joanna has performed in works with and by several local dance artists including Penelope Freeh, Blake Nellis, Taja Will, Darrius Strong, Heather Klopchin, Jennifer Glaws, Erin Drummond, + Erinn Liebhard. Joanna also showcased her own choreography independently before co-founding the Minneapolis dance company, Alternative Motion Project alongside Kristin Howe in 2011. She has served as Co-Artistic Director and Executive Director since AMP’s inception, creating performing opportunities for Minneapolis artists, educational outreach programs for public school students and audience engagement initiatives.
Joanna’s work has been presented by the College of DuPage (Glen Ellyn, IL), The Moving Collective (Louisville, KY) and at the Midwest Regional Alternative Dance Festival (Kalamazoo, MI). Joanna enjoys the collaborative process including with COD professor/composer Lee Kesselman and Chicago visual artist René Romero Schuler. She also premiered her first multi-media dance work entitled #binge (2016) in Minneapolis.
In 2020, Joanna earned her Masters of Fine Arts degree in Dance at The University of Utah (Salt Lake City). Whilst there, she served as a Graduate Teaching Assistant in the School of Dance and received the L. Scott Marsh Mentorship Award & a University Teaching Assistantship. She performed works by Charles O. Anderson, Stephen Koester, Sara Pickett, Christine McMillan. She performed in work by Doug Varone in collaboration with Doug Varone and Dancers and was selected as a choreographer for Varone’s DEVICES mentorship program, showcasing her work, Spiral Into Control, in New York City in 2018. An excerpt of her MFA thesis, B E C O M I N G, was selected to represent University of Utah in performance for the American College Dance Association Northwest Regional Conference at Gonzaga University.
Joanna currently teaches weekly classes for AMP and Zenon Dance School. Joanna will be joining Winona State University in Fall 2022 as an Adjunct Faculty Member. Joanna will be transitioning into the role of sole Artistic + Executive Director of Alternative Motion Project in September 2022.
More about Joanna on her website.
Photo Credit: Bill Cameron