ongoing classes
Contact Improvisation
K.J. Holmes
6:45-9:30pm W
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.
K.J. Holmes
11am-1pm Sat (no class November 29)
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.
november classes
Levi Gonzalez
November 3-26 M,W,F 10am-12pm
Movement Research at Eden's Expressway
Using anatomical principles of weight, momentum and energetic connection into space, we will explore movement that is fast, luxurious, quirky and complex. A more articulate physical state is achieved by neutralizing habitual muscular patterns and emphasizing the nuts and bolts of what is possible in movement. Dancers are encouraged to explore their own decision making process in interpreting, executing and ultimately transforming the movement material.
Lisa Race
November 4-25 T,Th 10am-12pm
Danspace Project
131 East 10th St. at 2nd Ave. at St. Mark's Church
Classes will draw upon an athletic background to develop ease with moving in and out of the floor in the most efficient, effortless ways possible, and to develop a comfort with utilizing the hands as a weight-bearing source. With these skills we will investigate various ways to effortlessly suspend and up-end the body in space, while remaining thoroughly grounded to the floor. Dance phrases will emphasize the use and thrill of momentum and gravity as a means to full-bodied, risky dancing, and at times challenge the body to defy those qualities.
Barbara Mahler
November 4-25 T,Th 10am-12pm
Movement Research at Eden's Expressway
Klein/ Mahler Technique
Klein Technique TM, first developed in 1975 by Susan Klein, continues to grow and expand with the teaching of Susan Klein and Barbara Mahler. It is a dance/movement technique that works from the premise that the requirements of movement in daily life and dance are basically the same. The purpose of the work/class is to re-educate one's body, with an interweaving of theory and practice on a physical and organic level. The result- clarity and sureness of movement, and a new level of understanding the intelligence of the body. The class is open to all levels, dancers and non-dancers alike.
Juliette Mapp
November 11 - December 12 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.