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select a month sept 06 oct 06 nov 06 dec 06 jan 07 feb 07 mar 07 apr 07 may 07 jun 07 march 2007 march classes Irene Hultman March 5 - 16 MON WED FRI 10am - 12pm Movement Research at Eden's Expressway Strictly Technique: Expanded This class starts with an anatomical warm-up based on the body's skeletal structure emphasizing flow, direction and perception. Continuing with repertory material from Fire Bird and Blue's Yellow Shadow, this class concentrates both on the technical aspects and execution of movements, as well as how the details effect the final expression. Jimena Paz March 6 - 29 TUES THURS 10am-12pm No class March 20 & 22 Danspace Project This class will start on the floor with a gentle thirty minute Feldenkrais Method Awareness Through Movement Lesson (CM) and will explore aspects of the lesson throughout the class such as: transmission of movement/force through the skeleton; a more developed kinesthetic sense as a means of learning and broadening one's options of self use; functional aspects of coordinated action; more even distribution of effort; and increased overall awareness in action/dancing. ongoing classes Juliette Mapp March 3, March 24, April 21, May 19, June 2, June 16 SAT   4:30 – 7:30 pm $20 per class Movement Research at Eden's Expressway This three-hour class will work in depth on developing awareness so that we may move with more specificity, focus, multiplicity and possibility. Particular attention is paid to the initiations of movement as a means of directing, sequencing, locomoting and surprising our bodies through space. Improvisational explorations and etudes based on simple, functional approaches to movement will be incorporated. Attention to detail will be explored through set material as the individual comes into his/her own way of seeing, translating and experiencing movement. Through phase material, extending the boundaries of perceived technique will be explored through a balance of physicality, intention, expression, interpretation and necessary questioning. Systems and Developments of Dance Improvisation: an ongoing investigation taught by Daria Fain, K.J. Holmes or Jennifer Monson. January 6 – June 30 SAT 11am – 1pm March 3 - Jennifer Monson March 10 - Daria Fain March 17 - Daria Fain March 24 - K.J. Holmes March 31 - K.J. Holmes Movement Research at Eden's Expressway In these classes, students will explore somatic approaches to fine-tuning the body as an instrument and source for dance improvisations based on the eclectic and extensive experience of the three teachers. Investigations will vary each week depending on the teacher and may include: awareness and perceptual play; time and spatial elements of instant composition; experiential anatomy through Body-Mind Centering® and the Alexander Technique™; and skills and practices of Contact Improvisation, martial arts forms and Chi Kung. All three teachers share interests in empowering the individual in relationship to self, others and the environment and in discovering new challenges and risks within movement and performance. Barbara Mahler January 2 – July 19 TUE THU 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 its highest level of efficiency and function. Daria Fain March 5 - May 30 MON WED 10am – 12pm Body Language, 241 Bedford Avenue #7 (bet N 3rd & 4th), Brooklyn The Affect of Perception on Performance: An ongoing experiment in creating means to apprehend language as performers This forum is addressed to participants in the performing arts who are interested in experiential and theoretical research in perception. It proposes a mind/body practice based on movement and internal “activation” of energy using Chinese energetics as a basic principal to develop sensory perception. By heightening sensory perception, the experience of one’s activity becomes multidimensional. The sessions will offer open improvisational situations and structures that integrate the senses, organs, body systems, emotions and directions in space. This work will immerse the student in an intra/extra-corporeal journey. Contact Improvisation Shakti Smith teaches for the month of March. February 7 – July 25 WED 6:45 – 9:10pm Cathy Weis 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 adults of all levels of movement experience, are informed variously by the individual teaching artists. workshops Ishmael Houston-Jones March 15, 22, 29   TH   6 – 9pm Dance Theater Workshop, 2nd floor   $75 Express Yourself: Bringing Your Dance to a Panel In today’s arts environment it is often true that more people who have influence over funding and presenting will see your work via video than will see it live. More people will read about your work than will see it live. Still, video documentation is almost always the last detail considered when making work. And many otherwise articulate artists are confounded when asked to explain their work in writing. This workshop is for both choreographers at the early stages of seeking funding for their work and for those who have been at it for a while but would like to hone their skills. Over three weeks we will form a panel and review one another’s videos and artists’ statements. An assignment will be given one week before the workshop begins.