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melt summer 2007 schedule select a week melt/week 1 melt/week 2 melt/week 3 melt/week 4 melt/week 5 Click here for online payment and registration week one:  july 9–13 Jeremy Nelson    Technique   10am – 12pm  $110 The classes are influenced by Nelson’s 20 years of continuing study with Barbara Mahler and Susan Klein, and by more recent studies in Alexander Technique™, Contact Improvisation and Body-Mind Centering®. We will begin with a warm-up that focuses mostly on our skeletal structure to access the deep supporting muscles of the body, allowing mobility and suppleness in the superficial muscles and emphasizes the connection to and use of the floor. The class builds from simple exercises to phrases of movement that involve moving boldly, covering lots of space and finding a specificity and ease in our dancing.    DD Dorvillier Improvisation    1 – 3pm  $110 Dancing In these classes we will have an opportunity to explore and extend our sensitivity to our own energy and movement potential through the use of creative, internally motivated or self-directed approaches, such as Skinner Releasing™ and Authentic Movement, as well as other movement/energy practices. An underlying motivation is to examine personal liberty in relation to dance practice.  Tere O’Connor  Composition   3:30 – 6pm  $125 Making Dances Tere O’Connor‘s choreographic workshops grew organically out of his own auto-didactic research into the form. Rejecting a “good/bad” paradigm, his desire is for artists to create problem-solving systems based on the structure of their own thought process and to rigorously pursue the “science” of their poetics. Through the daily creation of little dance works, the artist focuses his/her attention on developing an analytical eye for the fundamental metaphors in the work. We will look to create dances whose legibility is born of internal systems - detached from the denotative interpretation of “symbols”.