eleventh hour
is
11 hours of dance classes, workshops, and score-building exercises followed by a public performance at Windmill Arts.
The focus of eleventh hour is establishing a financially accessible day for dance artists to receive training from exceptional teachers, explore their physical and artistic edges, and create spontaneously, instinctively, and collaboratively to compose and perform in a work.
Saturday, March 8th from 9am-8pm* at Windmill Arts
Participation is 100% free. To register for eleventh hour please fill out the form below. Participation is open to the first 30 individuals that submit.
eleventh hour Schedule
9-9:30am Intros
9:30-11am Contemporary Modern Technique with Kristin O’Neal
11am-12:30pm Montage Methodology with Sawyer Estes
12:30-1:30pm Break
1:30-2:30pm Partnering with Jacque Pritz & Madison Lee
2:30-3:30pm Mindful Body with Amelia Reiser
3:30-4:30pm EXCAVATE Practices with Jacqui Hinkson
4:30-5pm Creation Session I
5-5:30pm Break
5:30-7:15pm Creation Session II
7:15-8pm Construction/Final Show Prep
8pm Performance
Teachers to be announced soon.
eleventh hour Teaching Artists
Kristin O’Neal - Contemporary Modern Technique
Residing in Atlanta, GA, Kristin performs a bit, teaches a lot and choreographs when the spirit moves her. Kristin’s contemporary modern technique classes include a deep investigation into how one’s body operates while considering the muscular effort needed to fulfill a movement. She enjoys sharing this mode of efficiency with students at Emory University as well as with the Atlanta Dance and Contact Improvisation communities.
On occasion, Kristin will create a solo dance based loosely on the life of one of her great aunts or grandmothers, always with a recycled costume and typically donning one of their personal handkerchiefs, brooch, or clip earrings.
Finally, Kristin O’Neal has earned a couple of dance degrees that can often feel insignificant; however, they fueled her with a life-long practice of dancing and engagement with a community of humans who continue to inspire her to research and evolve.
Photo Credit: Christina J. Massad
Sawyer Estes - Montage Methodology
Sawyer Estes is a theatre director, playwright, and producer currently based in Atlanta. He co-founded the ensemble-based Vernal & Sere Theatre in 2016. Since then, Estes has served as the lead artistic vision for the company which has established itself as the foundational experimental theatre in the city with its ten productions in a span of eight years. His work has gained a large and significant audience in a city which is historically more accustomed to traditional forms of theatre.
Estes is unique in that he both writes and directs many of his original productions and adaptations. He is a conceptual director prone to abstraction, stylized movement, and imagery; however, he is also a playwright with a firm foundation in dramatic structure and dramaturgy. His work is distinguished by a particular blend of high style and grounded, naturalistic performance.
He most recently adapted and directed Anne Carson’s seminal masterpiece, The Glass Essay, physicalizing and grounding her lyric essay without omitting a word of Carson’s text. Before this, he directed the world premiere of his original play Hurricane Season. This production was called “thought-provoking and worthy” by Arts ATL and praised for “stretching audience boundaries”.
Photo Credit: Kenneth Trujillo
Jacque Pritz - Partnering
Jacquelyn (Jacque) Pritz is a dance artist and freelance production coordinator. She launched Catching Mangoes Dance with the goal to share and uplift hyphenated American and multicultural stories through movement. Jacque’s choreography is autoethnographic, often examining her personal identity and life experiences as a Filipino-American woman, embodying her research on themes surrounding culture and identity, and connecting with people through the spirit of kapwa.
Photo Credit: Christina J. Massad
Madison Lee - Partnering
Madison Lee is a dancer and choreographer based in Atlanta, GA. Born in Michigan but raised in Dallas, Texas, they have been dancing their entire life. In Dallas, Madison trained intensively in hip hop and several other styles at Next Step Dance Performing Arts Center. There they performed with the Dallas Cowboys and Royal Caribbean Cruises.
Madison moved to Atlanta in 2020 to study Dance and Marketing at Emory University. They began training in contemporary and modern techniques and presented multiple works for the Emory Dance Program. They also performed professionally in the Atlanta dance area while still a student. When they graduated this past May, they were awarded Highest Honors for their dance thesis, fellowship in the John H. Gordon Stipe Society, and The Pioneer Award. In Atlanta, they have worked with choreographers such as Jacquelyn Pritz, Jacqui Hinkson, Leo Briggs, Julio Medina, George Staib, Annalee Traylor, Xan Burley, and Alex Springer. Currently, Madison is a company member with Catching Mangoes, led by Jacque Pritz, Staib Dance, led by George Staib, and Excavate Body, led by Jacqui Hinkson.
Photo Credit: Dustin Chambers
Amelia Reiser (she/they) - Mindful Body
Born on the Osage Plains of central Oklahoma and currently based in Atlanta and NYC, Amelia is a movement artist, performer, and facilitator. Their creative pursuits often explore paradoxes such as grief and joy + pleasure and devastation, researching human desires for beauty, poetics, validation, and connection. Through improvisation and composed rituals, she seeks to examine how trauma can shape our lives, and how movement helps spark transformation and healing. Nurturing creative impulse, Amelia’s work explores everyday human interactions to question our making of the world through language and body memory.
Jacqui Hinkson - EXCAVATE Practices
Jacqui Hinkson is the Founder and Artistic Director of EXCAVATE BODY. She is a dancer, multidisciplinary artist, and choreographer currently based in ATL.
She is honored to be amongst the web of talented movers and creators in the city and looks forward to developing new ways to come together, move, create, and make work!
Photo Credit: Carly Wynans
Parker Bradford - eleventh hour Sound Designer