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melt summer 2007 schedule
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week two: july 16–20
Vicky Shick
Technique 10am – 12pm $110
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.Barbara Mahler
Klein/Mahler Technique 1 – 3pm $110
Re-Education and Respect for the Body
The purpose of the work done in class is to re-educate one’s body, with an interweaving of theory and practice on a physical and organic level. Movement efficiency and postural re-education begin with detailed work on the key structural supports of the body, the pelvis and the Sacro-illiac joint. Our movement work will define and make a reality of “bringing the pelvis on top of the legs.” The result is clarity, sureness of movement and a new level of understanding the innate intelligence of the body. The class is open to all levels, dancers and non-dancers alike.Neil Greenberg
Composition 3:30 – 6pm $125
The workshop will rely on discourse, both choreographic and verbal, as a means of critical reflection of our own taken-for-granted assumptions about dance and choreography, as well as the assumptions of the traditions in which we each participate. Participants will develop palettes of materials—movement, ideas, questions—via directed improvisation, then experiment to find different strategies for organizing the materials. Points-of-departure for investigation include: how the audience builds a theory while watching a dance, what constitutes dance-events in each artist’s work, how events are framed, issues of consonance and dissonance, and participation or non-participation in existing traditions.