Krannert Retreat: The Making Room Project
Skove and Miller talk with rest of “A History” team
This past August, Bebe Miller, Susan Rethorst, and Lily Skove spent a week at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts in Illinois. Their week of collaboration and investigation explored the beginnings of The Making Room Project.
The Making Room Project continues an investigation into innovative ways of sharing the creative process with audiences. It brings together a diverse group of master artists to generate a joined experience of the creative process, to be shared virtually with audiences via a subscription service. Over 12 months, the participating artists will engage with each other during three virtual and three in-person convenings, paralleling their individual creative processes. These conversations and interactions between the artists, made viewable to an audience, will culminate in performances of newly crafted works in March 2017.
Lily Skove is a filmmaker and choreographer, creating for the screen, installation, and live performance. As a projection designer and video artist, she recently worked with The Bebe Miller Company on their latest piece, “A History.” Her Dance films have been screened at Dance Theater Workshop’s Digital Series in NYC, The San Diego/Tijuana DanceonFilm Festival, and Dance Camera Istanbul. Her choreography has been presented at The Chocolate Factory Theater in New York City, the Dailes Theatre in Riga, Latvia, and The Paxton Center at Oberlin College among other venues. Based in Los Angeles, she and her partner, TJ Hellmuth, make documentaries, commercials and films with their company, Open Land. Projects include documentation films for The William Forsythe Company’s Motion Bank Project, and a film of Ann Hamilton’s event of a thread, at the Park Avenue Armory in NYC. Lily has taught media & performance at the The Ohio State University, Oberlin College and the Institute for Choreography in Latvia. She holds a Diploma in Dance Studies from the Laban Centre in London, a BA from Wesleyan University, and an MFA in dance and technology from The Ohio State University.
Since 1975, Susan Rethorst has steadily created dances out of New York City. Since 1995, she has divided her time between New York and Amsterdam, teaching choreography throughout Europe and Scandinavia and continuing to make work in both Europe and America.
Rethorst’s work has been presented by The Museum of Modern Art; The Kitchen Center, Dance Theater Workshop, Danspace Project at St. Marks, The Downtown Whitney Museum, among others, as well as at various dance theaters, universities, and festivals throughout the U.S and internationally.
An internationally renowned teacher of choreography, Rethorst has been instrumental in devising BA and post-graduate programs in Copenhagen, Cork, Salzburg and Amsterdam. In 2001 she initiated, along with three others, a Master’s program for the Amsterdam School of the Arts. In 2005 she started a summer program devoted to the study of choreography in Pennsylvania titled Studio Upson in Pennsylvania (SUPA), now moved to the Center for Performance Research in Brooklyn. In addition, she has led workshops and seminars on choreography in Helsinki, Barcelona, Jerusalem, among others; guest taught at Bennington, Ohio State University, Bard, NYU, Barnard, among others; and workshops on a choreographic approach to media in London and Amsterdam. A documentary of her teaching methods and philosophy is currently in production at La Caldera in Barcelona.
Rethorst has lectured on dance and choreography at Dartington College in England, Arizona State University, New York University The Laban School in London, the Theater School of Helsinki and the Amsterdam School of the Arts, among others. She has published articles on her choreographic thinking in Movement Research Journal and Choreographic Encounters and her book ‘A Choreographic Mind: Autobodygraphical Writings’ (Best books of 2012 New Yorker Magazine) was published in March of 2012 by The Theater Academy of Helsinki.
Rethorst is currently based in Philadelphia, PA.
