teaching + facilitation
Harge has worked as an arts educator for 20 years teaching in community and academic settings. She offers classes and workshops to artists at every stage of their creative journey with a deep commitment to listening, testimony, and exchange across fields and experiences. See recent offerings below. If you are interested in bringing Harge to work with your community, please contact hargedancestories@gmail.com.
Finding Flight in the Flesh
A dance technique-based class investigating preparations for take off. Modern dance vocabularies and various movement tasks serve as containers to play with momentum; flying and submerging; shushing and screaming; legibility and illegibility. The class works inside a Black fugitivity framework to articulate movements of the flesh and breath and deepen physical agility with clarity and an improvisational readiness.
On the underside of flesh:
an offering to Black fascia
This workshop listens to the fascia as an ancestral inheritance and technology.
Considering the physical and psychic impacts on Black flesh over time, what has landed and lingered on Black fascia? What of our blood memories is inscribed on this connective tissue that suspends our organs in their cavities? What somatic, spiritual, and energetic interventions can we offer our fascia as practices of repair and reclamation? This workshop is an invitation to stay in the expansive, elastic, tender, and slippery layering the fascia provides. We practice moving from this inner wrapping to practice being more articulate when shaping space, time, and energy through the body.
This workshop was recently offered to Black artists through Movement Research’s MELT program.
Black Feminist Spatialities After the End of the World
What’s sitting in my blood memories? How does my flesh meet the land? How do I listen to what the land is offering? What are the myths I’ve been carrying in my body? What are the myths I’ve believed about the land? How can I use choreography and compositional strategies to correct them? To imagine otherwise? How can I use choreography and compositional strategies as vessels for repair?
A composition course processing the relationships between our bodies and the land. Grounded in Black feminist thought, citational practice, mythmaking, mythcorrecting, call-and-response, and installation creation, we position choreography as a site of research, intervention, ritual, and protest.
This workshop was recently offered as a 10-week course at UCLA.