Winter WONDERLAND Intensive

2025 Winter WONDERLAND Intensive

MONDAY-SATURDAY
January 13-18, 2025

Class & Rehearsals 
Monday-Friday 9-5pm 
@ NYU Tisch | 111 2nd Ave.

Performance 
Saturday 10-6pm 
@ Chelsea Factory | 547 W 26th St.

Following on the heels of GALLIM’s critically acclaimed performances of at the Joyce Theater, this is your chance to learn and perform WONDERLAND in one intensive week of training and rehearsing as a company!

TRAIN: Start your day with a company class, GALLIM Methods, with Andrea Miller and GALLIM artists.

REHEARSE: Expand your artistry! Research and rehearse an excerpted WONDERLAND, flexing your physical muscles and stretching your emotional range.

PERFORM: Invite your communities to a public performance at Chelsea Factory on Saturday, while gaining valuable performance experience and professional video footage.

CONVERSE: “Cookies and Conversation” Ask questions and receive insights into the balancing act between artistic vision and operational realities, in an intimate conversation with Artistic Director, Andrea Miller and Executive Director, Erin Fogarty.

EXCHANGE: Meet new artists and build your artistic family with GALLIM!

SAMPLE SCHEDULE

9:00-10:15 - GALLIM Methods

10:30-1:00 - WONDERLAND Rehearsal

1:00-2:00 - LUNCH

2:00-5:00 - WONDERLAND Rehearsal

GALLIM Methods is a movement technique training which practices Andrea Miller’s movement philosophy and creative methodology through a guided conversation between the body's network of systems and the imagination. Through a combination of guided improvisation and focused exercises, the class brings nuanced attention to regions of the body, its availability for movement, range, coordination, texture, and creative expression in relationship to the rest of the body and its experience within space, time, music, and art.

WONDERLAND Wolves or sheep? In WONDERLAND, everyone resists and stirs up their fate in a playground of shapeshifting ironies and humors, song and dance. The work was initially inspired by Chinese-born artist Cai Guo-Qiang’s installation Head On, which depicts 99 wolves charging into a glass wall. Four archetypal characters evolve in a universe influenced by the imagery of the American atomic age. Behind the smiles of an Esther Williams dream world, WONDERLAND reveals psychological and physical episodes of a herd acting as a unit through the uncoordinated behavior of self-serving individuals. Although pack mentality is a natural and ongoing strategy in the animal kingdom, among humans it can indicate a vicious, desensitized brutality and disregard for humanity – a concept that is at the core of WONDERLAND.