Yielding and Radiating with Jesse Factor
KST Presents
Co-Presented with PearlArts
Wednesday, November 6, 2024
10:00am – 11:30am
KST’s Alloy Studios | 5530 Penn Ave
Pay What Moves You: $10 – $25
Working with concepts of contraction/release, spiral of the body, and shift of weight, Jesse Factor will lead participants through Martha Graham’s iconic movement vocabulary in ways that prioritize the use of breath, opposition, and concepts of ease and efficiency. Yielding and radiating, participants will cultivate collaboration, physical exploration, and creativity. All levels are welcome.
Photo Credit: Gretchen Hurd
AND DON’T MISS…
Jesse Factor
The Marthaodyssey
Friday & Saturday, November 8* – 9, 2024
7:30pm-8:30pm
*Afterparty with Jellyfish
^Post-performance discussion
Kelly Strayhorn Theater | 5941 Penn Ave.
Pay What Moves You: $20 – $35
Citizens Community Dinner
with Jesse Factor
Monday, November 4, 2024
6:00pm
KST’s Alloy Studios | 5530 Penn Ave.
Pay What Moves You: $0 – $25
- ABOUT THE ARTIST
Jesse Factor trained at the Martha Graham School and danced with Graham II, and the Martha Graham Dance Company. Born in Sharon PA, Jesse grew up in Quito Ecuador and Bangkok, Thailand before earning a BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Factor’s work has been presented at the Boston Contemporary Dance Festival, Harvest Chicago Contemporary Dance Festival, OUTsider Festival (Austin), Milton Art Bank, RADfest (Kalamazoo), St. Mark’s Church in the Bowery (NYC), Fresh Fruit Festival (NYC), Queer Spectra (Salt Lake City) and House of Yes, (NYC). Factor holds an MFA from the University of Iowa and completed additional studies at the American Dance Festival and 92 St Y’s Dance Education Lab (DEL). Jesse currently serves in the Modern Dance unit at Point Park University’s Conservatory of Performing Arts.