ongoing classes Contact Improvisation Jen Abrams
6:45-9:30pm W (no class December 24) 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
11am - 1pm Sat 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.
Juliette Mapp
November 11 - December 19 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.
december classes Michelle Boule
December 1-31 M,W,F 10am-12pm
(no class December 24 and 26) Movement
Research at Eden's Expressway
We are moving - physically, energetically and mentally. Our dancing is a
way to tap into and further the motion that is already there, asking questions
about how we move, how we perceive our moving, what stops us and what gets
us going. This class borrows from the Alexander Technique™, Bartenieff
Fundamentals, Body-Mind Centering® and improvisation, and aims to acknowledge
and give space to each individual's unique exploration.
David Dorfman
December 2-23 T,Th 10am-12pm Danspace
Project
131 East 10th St. at 2nd Ave. at St.
Mark's Church
David Dorfman will lead a thorough, technical warm-up class that will range
in styles from release-based work connecting with the floor to an eclectic
standing modern class. Concepts such as a weighted and grounded approach
to movement, harnessing the body's momentum and force, varying approaches
to partnering, and composition choices through improvisation may be included.
Large amounts of fun will be had by all!