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may 2005
ongoing classes
Contact Improvisation
Jen Abrams
Wednesdays 6:45-9:30pm
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.
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.
Juliette Mapp
March 1 – June 28 T F 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.
Ann Carlson
Mondays 6 – 8:30pm $20/ session
Drop In and Make It
no class Memorial Day, Monday 5/30
Movement Research at Eden's Expressway
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.
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.
may classes
Juliette Mapp
May 2 – 27 M W F 10am – 12pm
Movement Research at Eden's Expressway
see Ongoing class description aboveJeanine Durning
May 3 – 12 T TH 10am – 12pm
Danspace Project
Class is designed to prepare ourselves through awareness and to increase the functional knowledge of our bodies so that we may move with more efficiency, specificity and focus. Particular attention is paid to the initiations of movement as a means of directing, sequencing, locomoting and surprising our bodies through space. Improvisational explorations 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 phrase material, extending the boundaries of technique will be explored through a balance of physicality, intention, expression and interpretation.Michelle Boulé
May 17 – 26 T TH 10am – 12pm
Movement Research at Edens Expressway
How can we continually open the body and mind for experience and expression and make choices from there? We will explore this question as a group through improvisation and set movement, while observing our habitual patterns and desires. The teaching is influenced by the Alexander TechniqueTM, Body-Mind Centering®, improvisation, developmental studies and healing practices.
Curt Haworth
May 19 – 26 T TH 10am – 12pm
Danspace Project
A daily technique class that will begin focusing on our anatomical alignment, lubricating our joints and warming and stretching our muscles. Moving from our centers through our extremities and back, we will emphasize a fluid spine and grounded weight. With the use of specific initiations, alignment and release, we will direct our movement with sequencing and momentum. We will employ improvisation and weight sharing to further and personalize our kinetic explorations. The class will build dynamically from subtle exercises into large athletic phrases that move in and out of the floor, on our hands and through space with easy exciting sequential momentum.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.