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october 2004

ongoing classes
Contact Improvisation
John Glenn
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
September 11 – January 8 Sat 11am – 1pm
No class Nov 27, Dec 25, Jan 1
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.

Barbara Mahler
September 14 – January 27 T TH 10am – 12pm
No class on Nov 25
Sept 14 - Dec 30 at Movement Research at Eden's Expressway
Jan 4 – 27 at Danspace Project at St. Mark's Church
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.


october classes
Jeanine Durning
September 27 – October 15 M W F 10am – 12pm
Movement Research at Eden's Expressway
see September 04 class description

Juliette Mapp
October 5 – November 23 T F 6 – 8pm
Movement Research at Eden's Expressway
Juliette will be out Oct 12, 15 and Nov 9, 12. Michelle Boulé will teach. Please see Michelle’s description below.
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.

Michelle Boulé
October 5 – 14 T TH 10am – 12pm
Danspace Project at St. Mark's Church
We are moving - physically, energetically and mentally. Our dancing is a way to tap into and further the motion that is already there, asking questions about how we move, how we perceive our moving, what stops us and what gets us going. We will look at desires and patterns we have in use and expression and explore these questions as a group through improvisation and set movement exercises and phrases.

Wally Cardona
October 18 – November 12 M W F 10am – 12pm
Movement Research at Eden's Expressway
Exploration as Technique
Classes range from the minute to the gross, as intelligible and unintelligible structures - both verbal and physical - are provided as sources of entry for exploration. Classes utilize Cardona’s own movement vocabulary and his practice of improvisational forms, Klein TechniqueTM (with Barbara Mahler and Susan Klein), and history with traditional/classical dance forms.

Ori Flomin
October 19 – 28 T TH 10am – 12pm
Danspace Project at St. Mark's Church
The class encourages moving into spatial extremes outside of imagined boundaries. The warm-up, using elements from yoga, ballet and release technique, focuses on discovering and strengthening connections within the body’s structure and maximizing the effects of gravity to move into space. Tension between secure and grounded placement and a sense of being out of control will be introduced in phrase-work as well as learning to use the breath to maintain a center from which one can explode.

october workshops
Katie Duck cancelled
October 18 – 20 M – W 1 – 4pm
$85
Movement Research at Eden's Expressway
Improvisation Music and Dance
“The ear experiences and then reads. The eye reads and then experiences.” This workshop is geared toward performing artists who are interested in amplifying live time in the performance space, building bridges between technique and composition skills, and practicing interdisciplinary activity. It introduces dance and music artists to a dialogue that has evolved within Katie Duck’s practices. Using the eyes and ears as the main sensorial focus, these physical sessions will emphasize the use of memory preceptors. Improvisation sessions will revolve around applying the terms “Pause,” “Flow” and “Exit” to time-based structures, and having theoretical discussions to help articulate physical areas like “memory” and “presence” while under the influence of creative activity, live time and the public format. The aim is to provide a situation where dancers and musicians can grow in confidence and presence and communicate to an artistic ensemble and/or public audience.