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august 2009

SUMMER MELT 2009 schedule, information, and registration available here


ongoing classes

Karl Leroy Anderson
July 7 – August 14  T F  6-8:15pm
Movement Research at Eden’s Expressway
Skinner Releasing Technique ™
The Skinner Releasing Technique™ is a movement-based process of discovery. The SRT pedagogy is highly structured and rigorous and yet the classes unravel within a sense of ease and mystery. Hands-on tactile partner studies, structured improvisations, and guided imagery allow the student to find clarity within the physical self. In addition to becoming better dancers, we happen upon empathy which in turn can lead to compassion. Find out more at www.skinnerreleasing.com. After each SRT class, there will be an improvisation structure that will last for approximately forty five minutes. Think, feel, play.    

Barbara Mahler
March 3 – August 13  T TH  10am-12pm
Movement Research at Eden’s Expressway
Re-education of the body: Klein Technique as Taught by Barbara Mahler
This ongoing class is based in a technique developing since 1972. It provides the underpinnings to support all styles of dance technique, improvisation, movement. The purpose of the work done in class is to re-educate one's body with an interweaving of theory and practice on a physical and organic level. The result is clarity and sureness of movement, and a new level of understanding the innate intelligence of the body. A body of work, it is also a way for dancers to be treated, respected and to be seen as individuals. The main thrust of the work is for dancers to find their own essence, their own identity and integrity and take that into movement.  We work at the level of the bone. In order to move most efficiently it is necessary to let go of the muscles that fix the body into a set and locked configuration, holding us back from moving. When the bones are aligned we become connected, powerful and strong.  The body becomes efficient and alive. The class is open to all levels, dancers and non-dancers alike. www.barbaramahler.com