Granary Arts invites you to join us us Saturday, April 15, 2023 at 7pm for the one-night performance of Groovement presented by Snow College Dance Improvisation under the instruction of Dmitri Peskov.
Groovement is an interactive performance that blends movement with still-life as performers showcase Walking The Dark by John Sproul and Waterman: Coloring The Stranger by Jiyoun Lee-Lodge. Dancers and musicians guide the audience through the exhibitions as they explore space and time, immersing the viewer and expanding the limits of performance.
ABOUT THE PERFORMERS
Snow College’s Dance Improvisation course explores the practice of movement through exercises in improvisational structures that are designed to heighten awareness, broaden individual movement vocabulary, and develop skills in instant movement making. The dynamic movement work is supplemented with academic research on the study of improvisation and creativity.
Dmitri Peskov was born in Moscow, Russia where he studied martial arts at a number of underground clubs and ballet at Tatiana Timofeeva Dance Center. After moving to the United States, he founded and produced Spectrum Dances Festival with the help from a Special Projects Grant from the Illinois Arts Council. He then co-founded and co-directed DanceLoop Chicago Company for which he received high critical acclaim for his choreographed works. As an independent artist and dancer, he has worked with Chicago Ballet, Chicago Festival Ballet, Salt Creek Ballet, Joel Hall & Dancers, Wellspring Dance Company, Shirley Mordine & Co Dance Theatre, Tet a Tet Theatre, Borealis Theatre, Lyric Opera of Chicago, and has collaborated with a number of professional choreographers.
Peskov holds an MFA in Choreography from Jacksonville University and an MA in Foreign Languages and Literatures from Northern Illinois University (where he also worked as a Graduate Assistant for the Philosophy Department). He has studied Meisner Technique at the Gaitley Poole Acting Conservatory and Lecoq and Suzuki technique at The Chicago School for Theatre Creators. He is a certified pilates, yoga and tai chi instructor and a poet whose works have been published in England, Australia, United States and Russia. Peskov is a recipient of the Illinois Arts Council Fellowship in Choreography Award and the Link Up Residency Award and is currently the Artistic Director of Snow College's Dance Ensemble.
This event is free and open to the public.