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april 2005
ongoing classes
Contact Improvisation
K.J. Holmes
Wednesdays 6:45-9:30pm
Simone Forti Studio
Contact Improvisation is a partnering dance form. Skills such as rolling, releasing, giving and supporting weight, expanding range of spatial concentration, lifting, catching and falling help one move with and through gravity, share weight in motion and use momentum and flow in physical contact. These weekly classes, open to people of all levels of movement experience, are informed variously by the individual teaching artists.
K.J. Holmes
February 5 – April 30 SAT 11am - 1pm
Movement Research at Eden's Expressway
The Athletics of Intimacy, Improvisations
Classes combine skills and practices of Contact Improvisation, applications of Body-Mind Centering® and tutoring of somatic improvisational approaches in solo, duet (strong emphasis on partnering) and ensemble dancing. I am interested in the very physical, the very sensorial and the very imaginative, and in discovering new challenges and risks within our movement.
Barbara Mahler
February 1 – May 12 T TH 10am – 12pm
Movement Research at Eden's Expressway
The purpose of this class is to re-educate the dancer’s body, interweaving theory and practice on a physical and organic level. From this comes the potential for students to discover a range of intelligence in their dancing, as well as to help them discover and develop their own choreographic vision. Initially inspired by the work of pioneer kinesiologist Dorothy Vislcoky, and then continuing for upwards of 20 years with Susan Klein, Barbara Mahler has learned to see, feel and teach each person/body individually to help their body function at both its highest level of efficiency and function.
Juliette Mapp
March 1 – June 28 T F 6 – 8pm
Movement Research at Eden's Expressway
This class will work in depth on developing awareness of alignment patterns to better understand each dancer’s unique movement potential and style. Class will be an opportunity to allow the body and mind to release and become aware of our pre-existing physical limitations in order to find greater movement range. Our warm-up will grow from internal structural and breath images to establish a consciousness in both the minute and grand details of dance. Class will conclude with a combination built to further increase awareness and freedom inside each student’s own dancing.
Ann Carlson
Tuesdays 6 – 8pm $20/ session
Drop In and Make It
TEMPORARILY SUSPENDED; NEW LOCATION TBA
Ann Carlson is conducting a weekly drop in situation to show new work. People making work in any genre – performance/choreography/conceptual/site works – are invited to participate at any place in their process. It is designed as an informal, yet rigorous opportunity to show work before an small group, receive feedback (if you'd like) and get ideas for getting the work to the "next step" - completed, performed, funded.
Daria Fain
Mondays 10am – 12pm
Chi Gong into movement
Satellite Location: Body Language, 241 Bedford Avenue - L Train to Bedford Ave. - walk down Bedford 4 blocks - between 4th and 3rd.
This is a technical class using Chi Gong principles to undertake the basics of a potent and healthy approach to movement grounded in exercises that draws in internal forces.
Daria Fain
Wednesdays 10am – 12pm
Spontaneous Chi Gong/improvisation
Satellite Location: Body Language, 241 Bedford Avenue - L Train to Bedford Ave. - walk down Bedford 4 blocks - between 4th and 3rd.
Using Taoist principles that connect organs, senses, and emotions, Daria leads an exploration into the complex layers of our being. The activated internal forces are at play.
april classes
Ori Flomin
March 21 – April 1 M W F 10am – 12pm
Movement Research at Eden's Expressway
The class encourages moving into spatial extremes outside of imagined boundaries. The warm-up, using elements from Yoga, Ballet and Release technique, focuses on discovering and strengthening connections within the body’s structure and maximizing the effects of gravity to move into space. Tension between secure and grounded placement and a sense of being out of control will be introduced in phrase-work as well as Learning to use breath to maintain a center from which one can explode.
Levi Gonzalez
April 4 – 15 M W F 10am – 12pm
Movement Research at Eden's Expressway
Using anatomical principles of skeletal alignment and freedom of movement in the joints, as well as more esoteric and experimental ideas about weight, momentum and energetic connection into space, we will explore movement that is fast, luxurious, quirky and complex. A more articulate physical state is achieved by neutralizing habitual muscular patterns and emphasizing the nuts and bolts of what is possible in movement. From this base we will explore our own personal decision-making process in interpreting, executing and ultimately transforming the movement material.
Jodi Melnick
April 12– 28 T TH 10am – 12pm
Danspace Project
Working from the inside out, class begins with a continuous, thorough warm-up. Focus is on the organs, skeleton and muscles, bringing awareness to a three-dimensional body and preparing it to move efficiently and to its fullest expression. This is followed by learning, interpreting and adding on to a dance phrase, composed of both expected and unexpected coordinations, attention to gesture, details and use of the entire space and floor.
Miguel Gutierrez
April 18 – 29 M W F 10am – 12pm
Movement Research at Eden's Expressway
I think of class as a practice to integrate the mind/body connection for contemporary dance work. Improvisation and simple exercises are drawn from a variety of influences: Body/Mind Centering®, the Alexander TechniqueTM, developmental work, improvisation and bodywork. The goal is to open up the energetic pathways in the body, develop physical intelligence and access the movement potential of your whole body. Class usually ends with a phrase that is fun and hard.
workshops
Daria Faïn
March 20, 27, April 3 Su $45/session, or $125 for all 3 sessions
March 20 10am – 2pm
March 27 7am - 12pm
April 3 7am - 12pm
Satellite Location: 241 Bedford Ave. bet N 3rd & 4th
HUMAN BEHAVIOR EXPLORERSThis workshop will be in 3 parts over 3 Sundays. Its structure will create a forum to discuss questions on performance in dance, including those about improvisation, composition and the different ways to think about choreography. The work will start from where we are as movers, and work with improvisation. Tools will be given to increase our sense of observation inward, of the body, and outward, of the environment. The workshop will take place inside the studio and outside. We will determine together our schedule for the second two Sundays at the first session leaving the time open so that we might work late at night or early in the morning. We will consider each Sunday as a potential 24-hour workshop; this doesn’t mean we will be together all that time but that these 24 hours will be a time to engage a full body/thinking process. To register, call Movement Research. For more information, contact Daria Fain at 718.450.1356 or humanbehaviorexplorers@earthlink.net
Ruth Zaporah
April 13 – 17 W – Sun 2 – 5pm $200Movement Research at Edens Expressway
Action Theater
Action Theater is a training process in physical theater improvisation. This workshop will address the relationship between language and movement, content and form, presence and imagination, embodiment and narrative, performance and practice, relaxation and power. The training is appropriate for those in dance and theater searching for a skillful vehicle toward the unexpected.
Susan Rethorst
April 11 – 29 M W F 10am – 2pm, TH 3 – 7pm
$350/2 week workshop
$500/3 week workshop
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10% discount by registering and paying in full by March 25
Choreographic Intensive
This choreographic intensive explores dance that does/effects/says what cannot be done/effect-ed/said in another form, and what this implies in the day-to-day work of the choreographer. How can we use the communicative power of movement to its fullest? How can we approach sequencing not as order, but as alchemy? Explore working with unknowing, perceiving and taking cues from what you are making while you are making it. Investigate ways to work with patience, humor, spontaneity and rigor, and address how to keep engaged. Students can register for 2 or 3 weeks or add the 3rd week upon completion of the 2-week workshop. To register, call Movement Research. Stay tuned for full workshop and added mentoring description.