Weekly Professional Class with Kendall Rileigh

Heightened Storytelling: The Marriage of Text and Movement

In this class Kendall Rileigh will lead an exploration of the interplay between spoken text and movement in storytelling: how each informs and enriches the other. We will look for moments of transcendence, when the marriage of text and movement reveals new meaning.

Participants are invited to bring a couple lines from a favourite poem or monologue in any language; suggested text options will also be available. This class is open to ALL bodies, abilities, and levels of experience. Those with intermediate or advanced aerial training may incorporate the apparatuses provided (aerial rope, silks, and hammock), but no aerial or dance experience is necessary for this class.

There will be a Showing with Kendall on Friday 15 August at 6pm, FREE but book here to attend >>>>>>

Kendall Rileigh is a New York City-based aerial performer, choreographer, and actor who is most excited by the fusion of storytelling and aerial acrobatics. A former competitive gymnast, she graduated summa cum laude from Duke University, continued acting and movement work with the Moscow Art Theatre, and trained aerial and acrobatics at Circus Warehouse. She was a LabWorks artist at the New Victory Theater in NYC, and in 2011 she co-founded Only Child Aerial Theatre, which produced ASYLUM (Circus Now), Story Hour, UPROAR, and other productions of heightened, acrobatic storytelling.

Her acting work includes the Broadway tour of one-woman show Golda’s Balcony (performed as understudy), other national tours and off-Broadway productions, and the TV show 30 Rock. Her aerial director and aerial choreography / performance credits include Yonder Window’s The Dream Project (Mexico and NYC); Hetty Feather (Delaware Theatre Company); ASYLUM (Skirball Center NYC); BAUBO (Neo-Political Cowgirls); Story Hour (The Muse); Trenches; and Mystery Ballet Theater 3000 (Constellation Moving Company).
www.kendallrileigh.com