programs

classes and workshops

june 2005

ongoing classes

Contact Improvisation
Curt Haworth
Wednesdays 6:45-9:30pm no class Wednesday June 29
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.

Juliette Mapp
March 1 – June 28   T F   6 – 8pm
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.

Daria Fain
Mondays 10am – 12pm
Chi Gong into movement
Satellite Location: Body Language, 241 Bedford Avenue - L Train to Bedford Ave. - walk down Bedford 4 blocks - between 4th and 3rd.
This is a technical class using Chi Gong principles to undertake the basics of a potent and healthy approach to movement grounded in exercises that draws in internal forces.

Daria Fain
Wednesdays 10am – 12pm
Spontaneous Chi Gong/improvisation
Satellite Location: Body Language, 241 Bedford Avenue - L Train to Bedford Ave. - walk down Bedford 4 blocks - between 4th and 3rd.
Using Taoist principles that connect organs, senses, and emotions, Daria leads an exploration into the complex layers of our being. The activated internal forces are at play.

june classes

David Thomson
May 31 – June 16 T TH 10am - 12pm
Movement Research at Edens Expressway
This class will deal with the song and language of dancing (shaping voice and listening), extending the personal interpretation, with emphasis on the qualities within the phrase. The warm-up will incorporate breath, with simple exercises to enhance the senses and activate the body, developing structures that translate and manipulate the phrase to create individual and group landscapes of movement.

Neil Greenberg
May 31 – June 30 T TH 10am – 12pm
Danspace Project
A warm-up drawing largely from my study of somatic approaches, such as Klein Technique, is followed by an application of these concepts to both familiar and unfamiliar movements, including sequences from my choreography. A focus of my use of somatic approaches is to help the dancer find a connection to the floor from which he or she can stretch and move out into space. Attention is given to sharpening the dancer's awareness of time and energy and to educating the body to move with specificity.

Vicky Shick
June 1 – July 1 M W F 10am – 12pm
Movement Research at Edens Expressway
This class seeks to prepare an articulate, alert and neutral body, ready for precise dancing with intricate coordinations that we will work on together. There is a simple, straightforward, continuous warm-up that relies on the use of release, alignment, momentum, weight and strength. Clarity, simplicity of movement, attention to detail and concentration will be our goal.