february
2004
ongoing classes
Contact Improvisation
Jordan Fuchs
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 (Feb 7 - April 24)
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.
february classes
Juliette Mapp
February 3-26 T,Th 10am-12pm
February 3-24 T 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.
Chrysa Parkinson
February 9-27 M,W,F 10am-12pm
Movement
Research at Eden's Expressway
This class focuses on the possible relationships
between technique and interpretation. The development
of stylistic and expressive range is encouraged
by a simple, function-oriented approach to movement,
and by guiding participants to expose their imaginations
physically. Improvisational exercises are used as
an approach for exploring technical and expressive
possibilities.
Gwen Welliver
February 17, 19, 24, 26 T,Th 10am-12pm
Danspace Project
This warm-up and movement class will develop from
simple skeletal mobility sequences to full-out,
spatial movement forms. Emphasis will be placed
on the joints, examining how their range of motion
relates to alignment, support, weight and choices
within your full out dancing. The class will culminate
in phrase work and traveling sequences.
february workshops
Mark Lorimer
February 9-13 M-F 10am-12pm
$ 110
Panetta Movement Center, 214 W. 29th St, #1001
This workshop will explore some of the structural
systems used in the work of Rosas/Anne-Teresa De
Keersmaeker. The work will focus on manipulating
phrase material with time. The systems oblige the
dancer to work creatively through a mathematical
structure with the ultimate goal of transcending
the restrictions of the rules to develop the dance.
The material itself is in many ways unimportant
to the study (since the ideas could be applied to
a variety of movement material) but the short starting
phrases will come from "Rain" and "Amor Constante
Mas Alla Dela Muerte" with possible opportunities
for participants to include their own 'basic phrase'
material.
Deborah
Hay
February 16-20, 23-27 M-F 10am-12pm
$ 200, 2-week workshop
Panetta Movement Center, 214 W. 29th St, #1001
Experimentalism: By asking really big questions, ones that make answers
seem dilettantish, we set in motion our bodies as laboratories. Here
is where learning without thinking becomes possible. A set of conditions,
which could be called the experiment, with materials such as time,
space, and real and/or imagined feedback, collectively and individually
guides each dancer. We will use the choreographic structure that engaged
the dancers in The Match, a quartet that will be performed at Danspace
Project, Feb. 5 - 8, 2004, as the form for our experiments.
This workshop was funded, in part, by the National Endowment for
the Arts as part of our 25th Anniversary Celebration Season.
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