december 04

january 2005

winter MELT 2005
January 3 - 28, 2005
4 weeks of intensive workshops with internationally acclaimed faculty in Technique, Improvisation, Composition and Releasing. Faculty includes: Chrysa Parksinson, Sara Pearson & Patrik Widrig, Neil Greenberg, Tere O'Connor, Irene Dowd, Vicky Shick, K.J. Holmes, Miguel Gutierrez, Gwen Welliver, Yvonne Meier, and Jennifer Monson.

ongoing classes

Contact Improvisation
Charlie Mosey
6:45-9:30pm Wednesdays
Simone Forti Studio
PLEASE NOTE: Charlie will be out Wednesday, January 26th. Jordan Fuchs will teach.
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
Sat 11am – 1pm
No class Nov 27, Dec 25, Jan 1
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
Tuesdays and Thursdays 10am – 12pm
Jan 4 – 27 at Danspace Project at St. Mark's Church
PLEASE NOTE: Barbara will be out Thursday, January 13th. Jeremy Nelson will teach.
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.