After 14 years at Franklin and Marshall College, and a year off to regroup and reconfigure what we wanted MICI to be, the workshop is back! Our home for 2020 is the gorgeous historic Mechanics Hall in downtown Portland, Maine.

The intensive balances in-depth individual exploration with rigorous practice in spontaneous ensemble dance-making.

Fresh perceptions and new choices are set in motion daily through provoking, open-ended questions, co-facilitated by The Architects.

Each kinesthetic/conceptual proposition acts as an entrance point for the mover and composer, a window into authenticity, connection, depth, and range. Of particular interest here is the emerging: compositional languages and modes of perceiving and engaging that are in-progress, unfolding, as-yet-unseen. Over the course of the week, the artistic integrity of one’s voice is sharpened in conversation with the whole and a dialogue emerges as individual aesthetics meet, interact, and expand.