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december 2004

ongoing classes
Contact Improvisation
Jen Abrams
6:45-9:30pm  W
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
Sat 11am – 1pm
No class Nov 27, Dec 25, Jan 1
K.J. will be out December 8th, Abby Crain will teach.
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
September 14 – January 27 T TH 10am – 12pm
No class on Nov 25
Sept 14 - Dec 30 at Movement Research at Eden's Expressway
Jan 4 – 27 at Danspace Project at St. Mark's Church
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.

december classes
Juliette Mapp
November 15 - December 17 M W F 10am - 12pm
No class on Nov 26
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.

Miguel Gutierrez
December 13 - 17 M-F 1-3pm
Movement Research at Eden's Expressway
In this class, we will go through a series of investigations exploring improvisation as a practice and as performance. We will focus on the practice of presence, sophisticated choice-making, individualized kinetics and solo and group forms. Improvisation and simple exercises are drawn from a variety of influences: Body-Mind Centering®, the Alexander TechniqueTM, developmental work, improvisation and bodywork.

workshops
DD Dorvillier
December 6 – 10   M – F   4 – 6pm
$100
Skinner Releasing Technique (SRT)
Skinner Releasing Technique integrates mind and body in the creative act of dancing. This workshop is a series of guided solo and partner investigations and exercises, using poetic imagery to create a rich experience of personal movement. Alignment, balance, autonomy of body parts and economy of movement are developed as we practice releasing tension patterns, preconceptions and fixed states of being. This workshop comprises the first week in the SRT Foundational training.