BGP Fall Sessions with Amy Chavasse, November 15, 12-2:30pm

BGP Presents Fall Sunday Sessions: Amy Chavasse

Join us in the studio for a 2.5-hour workshop with dance artist Amy Chavasse.

Sunday, October | 12:00–2:30 PM
Bushwick, Brooklyn
Off the L at Morgan Ave
Sliding scale: $15–30

Workshop Description

Two part workshop: 1) stacking up a story word by word 2) what came before
Falling into entangled notions of time and sequence, this Sunday Session will be devoted to accumulating improvised movement narratives through collective storytelling and traveling from the end to the beginning. Participants bring their movement and their language in improvised performance share-a-thons.

Now in its 4th year, Sunday Sessions is a workshop series inviting participants to learn embodied practices from dance artists working across improvisation, choreography, and intersections of neurodivergence and queer creative research.

Each artist leads a 2.5-hour session, sharing tools and approaches from their own creative practice through a physical, in-person experience. Sessions invite movers to explore individual movement invention, experimentation, and ensemble practices, opening up possibilities for connecting with others and building each moment together.

The studio is located in an older Bushwick arts building and is not a traditional dance space. Wear comfortable clothing you can move in.

Presented and produced by Beth Graczyk Productions (BGP) as part of our Fall Sunday Sessions. 

Artist Biography

Amy Chavasse, (she/ any) choreographer, performer, educator, improviser, Artistic Director of ChavasseDance&Performance is insatiable, curious, and an irreverent mix of plausible combustion and chill.  Current projects include Afterlife Plunder, a drag / dance / music / storytelling performance project with performances at BAAD! In NYC, and Arts in Tank International Dance Festival in Seoul, South Korea; Everything is America, sorry what America, a collaboration with students at the University of Michigan; Collapso, with Buenos Aires based choreographer, Luciana Acuña, and Brooklyn based dance artist, Nola Sporn Smith, and Little Charlotte, the Round Ray, a collaboration with Malcolm Tulip with performances in Northampton, MA. Her work has been presented at 2019UrbanSeason Shanghai Festival, The New Dance Festival (Daejon, South Korea) and the Goyang International Dance Festival (Seoul), Uppsala, Sweden, Cuba, Kaunus and Vilnius, Lithuania, Vienna Cali, Colombia; Vancouver BC; Buenos Aires, the American Dance Festival/ Henan (China), The Beijing Dance Festival, and in many U.S. venues. She climbed Mount Kinabalu, the highest mountain in Malaysia at 4095 meters, in July 2026. It was life-changing. Peter Schmitz was her mentor and fellow traveler in improvisational adventures. She’s collaborated with a lusty roster of amazing artists over the years including Beth Graczyk, Austin Selden, Sarah Konner, Jessica Jolly, Donnell Oakley, Jay Peng Zhang, Nola Sporn Smith, Thaddeus Bennet and Malcolm Tulip. She is drawn to imagining what came before.