programs

classes and workshops

may 2006

may classes

Juliette Mapp
May 1 – 26 M W F 10am – 12pm
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.

Jennifer Monson
May 9 – June 1 T TH 10am – 12pm
On May 16 and May 18, K.J. Holmes will be substitute teaching this class.
Danspace Project
Morning Dancing
In this class we will warm up our individual approaches to improvisation as a performance form through various processes influenced by Skinner Releasing Technique™ and Authentic Movement. We will isolate improvisational activities such as making transitions, creating locations, sustaining energetic states, and other compositional strategies to bring a deeper understanding to our own personal and intrinsic improvisational logic. We will create scores that access our deeper layers of consciousness and challenge our assumptions about how we dance, uncovering both raw and sophisticated compositional patterns. I am curious about how meanings get affixed to particular moments in performance both willfully and not and in our agency to reclaim and reenergize meanings and mistakes in the act of performance. We will dance for each other a lot.

Vicky Shick
May 29 – June 16 M W F 10am – 12pm
Movement Research at Eden’s Expressway
Class on Monday, May 29 (Memorial Day) has been cancelled.
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.

ongoing classes

Contact Improvisation
Jen Abrams teaches in May.
Wednesdays 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 people of all levels of movement experience, are informed variously by the individual teaching artists.

K.J. Holmes
January 7 - June 24
(New- This class no longer ends in April, it is extended through June!)
On May 27, Margit Galanter will substitute teach this class.
Saturdays 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.

RoseAnne Spradlin
January 29 - June 29
Thursdays 1 – 3pm
Movement Research at Eden’s Expressway
Body-Mind Centering®: Integration and Expression
In this class students will be guided through integrative explorations and creative improvisation rooted in principles from Body-Mind Centering®. This work can be used to address problems in dance technique, psycho-physical integration or as a source for creative tools in the choreographic process.

Barbara Mahler
February 21 - March 16 & April 18 - June 22
Please note: there is a break from March 21 - April 13
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 its highest level of efficiency and function.

Juliette Mapp
February 7 - June 30
Tuesdays and Fridays 6 – 8pm
Movement Research at Eden’s Expressway
See May Class description above.

Daria Fain
”My classes draw on the practice of Chi Kung. They are focused on giving you tools to connect with different physical, energetical systems that allow one to access energy and imagination.

Chi Kung is a 5000-year-old Chinese practice to heal oneself. It means: "cultivating life force". Based on Chinese energetic it uses the same principals as acupuncture. Chi Kung teaches you to store and cultivate energy so it can flow in energy routes that are the meridians. Practiced on a regular basis, Chi Kung provides long term tools to balance and comprehend the interface of the body, the mind and the spirit.”

” Any one can attend all classes and with a regular practice can develop their own individual understanding and relationship to cultivating energy.”

Mondays 10am – 12pm until May 16th
Body Language
Chi Kung into Movement
This is a technical class using Chi Kung principles to undertake the basics of a potent and healthy approach to movement grounded in exercises that cultivate internal forces.

Tuesdays 6:30pm – 8pm until June 13th
Body Language
Rotative topics in Chi Kung
Topic from February 7 to March 8: Tai Chi - Chi Kung
This thirteen-movement form focuses on the inner structure of Tai Chi, the way the Chi flows in the body and the way energy is transmitted through the bone structure from the ground. This form is simple and easy to master, yet it contains all the essential movement of Tai Chi.

Wednesdays 10am to 12pm until June 14th
Body Language
Spontaneous Chi Kung/Improvisation
Using Taoist principles that connect organs, senses and emotions, Daria Faïn leads an exploration into the complex layers of our being. The activated internal forces are at play.