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Newport School of Artistic Movement and Pacific Dance Ensemble alumni Phoebe Berglund is returning to Newport to head a dance composition workshop at the school’s studio in Newport on Wednesday, Dec. 21.

In the workshop, she will guide participants through steps in the choreographic process. After various exercises in improvisational forms to develop movement ideas, students will create their own graphic and written dance scores to perform with the group.  

No formal dance training is required.

Berglund, neé Morris, is a New York City based dancer and choreographer who creates works for theaters, museums, galleries and outdoor sites. Her choreography is characterized by the use of repetitive formal structures, athletic physicality accented by classical ballet and contemporary gestures. Her early formal training is in ballet and modern dance which she studied at the Newport School of Artistic Movement and later at the Martha Graham School in NYC. In 2013, she earned an MFA at Hunter College in Combined Media and is the recipient of the Leutz/Reidel Fellowship at the Universität der Künst Berlin. Recently her work has been presented at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, the Getty Museum Los Angeles and the Sadler’s Wells Theater in London. She has been an artist-in-residence at Swatch Group in Shanghai, Boghossian Foundation in Brussels, Shandaken at Storm King Art Center and MoMA PS1. She has been a visiting artist at the University of Arts Helsinki, Finland, Virginia Commonwealth University and MoMA.

Berglund has an upcoming project at the Jewish Museum and her artworks are in the MoMA Library Collection. 

The Dec. 21 workshop will run from 1 to 4 pm, at the Newport School of Artistic Movement, located at 454 SW 7th Street. For more information, go to pacificdanceensemble.com. To register, email pdedance@msn.com or call 541-961-2316.