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september 2006

september classes

Vicky Shick
September 5 – 28 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.

Levi Gonzalez
September 6 – 29 M W F 10am – 12pm
Movement Research at Eden’s Expressway
INHABITING FORMS: Tools for Performers
This class will be an investigation in locating presence within choreographic and/or performative forms. Class will begin with imagery and gentle preparation culled from various bodywork modalities to find softness, ease and alertness in the body. From there we will investigate choreographic structures, improvisations and performance constructs with special attention on finding various ways to engage with the material with honesty, precision and absorption. Discussion, activity and thoughtfulness will be encouraged.

september workshop

Deborah Hay
September 18 - September 22 M - F 12:30pm - 4:30pm
Experimentalism
Panetta Movement Center, 214 W 29th St, 10th Floor
$200
Both body and dance are always provisional, which does not mean that body and dance are abstractions. There is a concreteness that is always the essential teacher whose effects can be startlingly physical. In the workshop Hay will propose a particular set of performance practices. Once the dancer becomes familiar with how to work the practices, a second layer, the choreography, will be added to the workshop experiments.

ongoing classes

Contact Improvisation
Shakti Andrea Smith teaches for the month of September.
September 6 – January 31 W 6:45 – 9:10pm
(no class Nov 22 and no class Dec 27)
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.

Barbara Mahler
September 5 – December 21 T TH 10am – 12pm
Movement Research at Eden’s Expressway
(no class Nov 23)
January 2 – 30 T TH 10am – 12pm
Danspace Project
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.

Merceditas Mañago Alexander
September 5 – December 22 T F 6 – 8pm
Movement Research at Eden’s Expressway
We will be constantly investigating weight shifting, energy intent and pathways, initiations and the sequence of events that happen, eye focus, and pelvic and leg support in relation to the torso and arms. I hope awareness from these places will help us better understand how these affect the performance quality of our movements.

RoseAnne Spradlin
September 7 – October 26 TH 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, psychophysical integration or as a source for creative tools in the choreographic process.

K.J. Holmes
September 16 – December 16 SAT 11am – 1pm
(no class Nov 25)
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.

Juliette Mapp
September 16, October 14, November 18 SAT 4:30 - 7:30pm
$20 per class (drop-in only; pre-registration not available)
Movement Research at Eden's Expressway
This three-hour class will work in depth on developing awareness so that we may move with more specificity, focus, multiplicity and possibility. Particular attention is paid to the initiations of movement as a means of directing, sequencing, locomoting and surprising our bodies through space. Improvisational explorations and etudes 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 phase material, extending the boundaries of perceived technique will be explored through a balance of physicality, intention, expression, interpretation and necessary questioning.