february 2005

ongoing classes

Contact Improvisation
Jordan Fuchs
Wednesdays  6:45-9:30pm 
Simone Forti Studio
PLEASE NOTE: Jordan will be out Wednesday, February 2nd. Charlie Mosey 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.

Barbara Mahler
February 1 – May 12   T TH   10am – 12pm
Movement Research at Eden's Expressway
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.

K.J. Holmes
February 5 – April 30   SAT   11am - 1pm
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.

februrary classes

Wally Cardona
January 31 – February 18   M W F   10am – 12pm
Movement Research at Eden's Expressway
Technique and Performance
A dance class that focuses on technique and performance skills, inevitably touching upon how the dancer/performer sees, perceives, creates, performs and communicates needs, thoughts and impulses. Classes begin with technique practice (with an emphasis on connecting to one’s entire body on a most practical level, offering the potential to dance from a place underneath “personality”) and moves on to performance practice (using structures, both verbal and physical, as sources of entry). Classes are inspired by Cardona’s ongoing studies with Barbara Mahler and Susan Klein, performance work with Deborah Hay, practice of improvisation and history with traditional/classical dance forms.

Doug Elkins
February 8 – March 1   T TH   10am – 12pm
Danspace Project
Emphasis in this class will be put on bringing seemingly incongruous materials together. Technique and warm-up exercises will be drawn from a variety of movement styles ranging from ballet and post-modern to street/club styles and martial arts. Phrases in the Elkins idiom will be introduced, emphasizing dynamic physicality and self-expression.

Kathryn Sanders
February 21 – March 4  M W F   10am – 12pm
Movement Research at Eden's Expressway
Use your innate understanding of body mechanics to improve the execution of physical perception. This process will apply to movement that is self-generated as well as learned by directed instruction. Class will include a warm up, improvisation, and learning a choreographed study.

workshops

Ann Carlson
February 1 – March 1  T   6 – 8pm   $20/ session
Drop In and Make It
Satellite Location: PS 122, 150 First Ave. at 9th Street, Room #201, Buzzer #7
ALERT: This class cancelled for Tues, Feb. 22nd.
Ann Carlson is conducting a weekly drop in situation to show new work. People making work in any genre – performance/choreography/conceptual/site works – are invited to participate at any place in their process. It is designed as an informal, yet rigorous opportunity to show work before an small group, receive feedback (if you'd like) and get ideas for getting the work to the "next step" - completed, performed, funded.

Polly Motley
February 1, 3   T TH   10am – 12pm   $12/ session
Dancing the Numbers
Danspace Project
These sessions will work with the score from Motley’s solo, Dancing the Numbers. The score is based on the following questions: What individual intentions support our dancing so that improvising a score is simple and clear? How and when does movement begin and end? How does one movement become another? How do we take the time to follow impulses and not generate them unnaturally? What do we do when one series of movements or investigations ends and another has not yet begun? What is stillness?