Starting January 25th, 2019, Lilianna is organizing and hosting the Brooklyn Contact Improvisation Jam at Aikido Of Park Slope.
There will be a guided warm-up from 7:45-8:15, followed by open jamming from 8:15-10:45.
This jam is open to all people regardless of technical training, ability, identity, age, etc!
Aikido Of Park Slope is located at 630 Sackett Street in Park Slope, Brooklyn.
Check the facebook group, "Brooklyn Contact Jam”, for more information!
Photography: Victor Blanco
From March 3rd to March 18th, 2018, Lilianna will reside in San Andres, Cholula, Mexico, to deepen her improvisational practice and re-surface her solo, Silk. She will teach a somatic workshop to dance students at UDLAP in San Andres, Cholula, and perform Silk on March 12th at the Performatica Festival in Cholula.
For the month of October, 2017, Lilianna will live at BetOnest, an artist residency in the Germany country side. Here, she will deepen her personal practice, embark on new projects, and live a calm, slow-paced life.
Below are two dance films created during this residency with a new friend and collaborator, B.D. Owens.
Photography: Julliette Machado
Lilianna Kane and Charlotte Sickles get together in Bellingham, Washington, to make a new work.
Pleasure Study I investigates the body’s innate desire for pleasure, both sensory and emotional, through improvisational scores. The work relies on dance improvisation as a vehicle to tap into the body’s intuition and ability to make choices.
Pleasure Study I was scored, set, and directed in seven days during Bellingham Repertory Dance’s “Seven Day Dance Festival” in Bellingham, Washington, in September, 2017.
Performers/Collaborators: Elizabeth Belyea, Lilianna Kane, Derek Loerzel, Caitlin Nelson, Danielle Park, Charlotte Stickles
Painting Demo by Jove Wang (2018)
Lilianna is an experienced model for drawing, painting, and sculpture classes primarily in Columbus and New York City. Kane uses modeling as a meditative practice to inform her dance work. Modeling is embodied research on body subjectivity in relationship to power dynamics in both inter-personal levels and systemic, structural levels. This practice is also part of a life-long goal to de-stigmatize nudity, and celebrate bodies rather than censor them. To book Kane as a model for your art class, click here.
