Live Landscapes: Floorwork, Voicework, and Improvisational Play with Laja Field + Jessie Lee Thorne
August 10-14, 2026 at City Dance
$580
Step into a full-body immersion where floorwork, dance-theater and spontaneous composition collide. Through non-linear storytelling, travel between the real and surreal to unlock new portals of movement and expression. Building foundations from visceral, momentum-driven floorwork; awaken joint mobility, gain strength and efficiency in motion while harnessing explosive power with cloud-like landings. Develop agility, confidence, and try on new movement imprints. Broadening the body’s expressive tools, explore monologue, dialogue, lip-syncing, and animated physicality. Activate theatricality and the voice to excavate other avenues of character development.
Combine each day’s skills to create a map for instant composition. Practice layering complexity inside a structured improv. Find meaning through character in response to real-time events unfolding with the ever-developing collective. Go beyond “steps” to unleash spirit, instinct, and the limitless possibilities of intent-driven performance.
This workshop is part of THE HATCHERY by ttgsf.
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ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Laja Field is an international dance-theater creator, educator and performer known for her hyperphysical, non-linear storytelling through movement. Her work spans across the U.S, Canada, Central America and Europe. Originally from Salt Lake City, she earned her BFA from the University of Utah. In her final year, Laja began working with johannes wieland and went on to spend three full seasons at Staatstheater Kassel in Germany. Laja’s teaching career jump-started at New York City’s Gibney 280 and Peridance Center. While in the city, Laja co-founded LAJAMARTIN physical dance theater with Martin Durov and was also a founding member and rehearsal director of Vim Vigor Dance Company. Independently, Laja has toured to 18 countries worldwide, some highlights include being selected as resident choreographer at Springboard Danse, performing at PRISMA festival in Panama, serving as adjunct professor at NYU | Tisch, creating work for Danse à la Carte’s, TransFormation in Montreal, and teaching yearly at the b12 festival in Berlin. Laja is the North American Admissions Ambassador for the MA Dance: Performance at The Place | London Contemporary Dance School; a guest with greywax dance company directed by Victor Rottier and continues her independent projects creating and teaching across the globe.
Website: www.lajafield.org
Instagram: @lajafield
Photos of Laja Field by Sentienforms and Zui Gomez
Jessie Lee Thorne (she/they) is a choreographer, filmmaker, and performer whose work moves fluidly between live performance, dance film, and commercial media. Her practice explores the relationship between movement, dialogue, and imagery as a means of connection across artistic disciplines and societal boundaries. Jessie has collaborated with music artists including RY X, Banks, Bishop Briggs, and David Archuleta, as well as institutions such as Nowness, Universal Pictures, The Getty Museum, and TED. As a performer, Jessie has toured internationally for over a decade with artists and companies including Micaela Taylor’s TL Collective, Walter Matteini, Margot Gelber, and Dolly Sfeir. Jessie’s award-winning film Topia (2022) produced by Boston Moving Arts, screened internationally and later premiered as a live dance-theater evening work for Dance at the Odyssey Festival in LA. Jessie holds an MA in Screendance from the London Contemporary Dance School and recently was commissioned to make new work for Backhausdance and The Boston Conservatory. Currently living in London, Jessie continues creating and directing movement-led narrative work. This May she will be premiering a new duet in NYC.
Website: www.jessieleethorne.com
Instagram: @jessieleethorne