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october 2003
ongoing classes
Contact Improvisation
Daniel Lepkoff
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
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.
october classes
Miguel Gutierrez
September 29 - October 31 M,W,F 10am-12pm
Movement Research at Eden's Expressway
It is possible to connect the experiential/energetic nature of moving with the graphic nature of perception. With this in mind, class is an ever-evolving practice in preparing the body/mind and spirit for contemporary dance work. Improvisation, simple standing exercises and kinetically challenging phrase work come together to encourage dancers/dancing to be intelligent, grounded, sophisticated, risk-taking, present and ferocious. Personal attention is emphasized. Current influences are Body-Mind Centering® and Alexander Technique™.
Vicky Shick
October 7-30 T,Th 10am-12pm
Danspace Project
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.
Daniel Lepkoff
October 7-30 T,Th 10am-12pm
Movement Research at Eden's Expressway
Weight, Center, Extension and Force
We use elements of developmental movement and contact improvisation to bring awareness to the movement of forces through the architecture of the body. From small to large, gentle to powerful, the work explores the duality of giving and receiving energy, moving and being moved, observation and action, the space inside the body and the space outside the body.
october master class
Reggie Wilson
October 25 Sat 12-3pm $20
at Dance Theater Workshop, 219 W. 19th Street
(between 7th and 8th Avenue)
Contemporary Movement and the African Diaspora
Held in association with DTW, this contemporary movement class utilizes source materials, elements and movement languages from cultures of the Southern US, Trinidad and Tobago (Caribbean) and Zimbabwe (Southern Africa). The foundation of the class is based on modern, full-bodied, grounded and rhythm-based movement. Attention is maintained on the weight and direction of the pelvis, the use of the full foot and the use of the full range of the demi-plie, accompanied by driving rhythms created through stamping, clapping, shouting and aspirated breathing that propels the dancer to states of ecstasy.