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september 2004
ongoing classes
Contact Improvisation
Jordan Fuchs
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.
september classes
Kathryn Sanders
September 6 – 17 M W F 10am – 12pm
Movement Research at Eden's Expressway
Goals: to connect to the body's deepest tissues; to identify personal habitual movement patterns; to improve articulation and coordination skills; to refine concentration; to discover and realize the spirit of the dance. The warm-up is heavily influenced by specific anatomical principles and exercises from Klein Technique TM. This perspective will be applied to a few movement phrases borrowed from historical forms (i.e., classical, modern, improvisation, postmodern, etc.) and will ultimately lead the class into a study of a choreographic passage.Vicky Shick
September 7 – 30 T TH 10am – 12pm
Danspace Project at St. Mark's Church
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.Yvonne Meier
September 7 – 28 T 6 – 8pm
Movement Research at Eden's Expressway
Releasing
Through specially designed images, we will enable ourselves to let go of hidden tensions and realign with the natural forces of gravity and counter balance. Through the releasing process, we will learn how to move with more freedom and economy. Spontaneous movement explorations will allow us to creatively integrate these changes in our bodies. The experience of seeing into our bodies will give us a wonderful tool for improvisational dance.Jeanine Durning
September 27 – October 15 M W F 10am – 12pm
Movement Research at Eden's Expressway
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.
september workshops
Janis Brenner
September 25 – 26 Sat, Sun 2 – 6pm
$75 for both days
NEW REGISTRATION OPTION as of 9/23/04:
$40 for one-day, drop-in registration
Movement Research at Eden's Expressway
Moving, Sounding and Acting
This workshop intensive explores the integration of movement and voice by delving into the mind/body connection, sensations and experiences through structured improvisation. Each class incorporates a physical warm-up as well as a vocal warm-up with the group learning songs to be sung together in "rounds." This creates a great sense of community and unified purpose, from which we can move into explorations together and individually.