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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 three:  july 23–27 Juliette Mapp  Technique   10am – 12pm  $110 Using the luxury of five continuous days of dancing together, we will take the time to investigate different states of awareness. Each class will be three-fold, beginning with a guided improvisation to inspire the imagination to expand into the unique life of different parts of the body, followed by dancing within technical forms to support our range and work as dancers, and concluding with a phrase that integrates concepts of weight, lightness, initiation and intention. The technical forms and phrase will be specifically structured to build our knowledge of individual physical patterns that may be blocking us from deepening the use of our selves as artists. In the process of learning a phrase, we can observe how we retain “set” material. The merging of the unconscious life of movement through improvisation and conscious attention to the physical imagination is part of the energizing practice we will explore in each class.     Irene Dowd   Spirals   1 – 3pm  $110   Please note location for this workshop ONLY is at Dance Theater Workshop, 219 W. 19th St. Learn an eight-minute warm-up for dance, which mobilizes all the joints and exerts all major muscle groups from the most elongated to the most shortened lengths. While moving through arcing pathways, each segment of the body’s volume is constantly changing its relationship to each other segment, gravity and the performance space.   Yvonne Meier Releasing    1 – 3pm  $110       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. Jennifer Monson   Composition in Improvisation   3:30–6pm  $125  In this workshop we will research our individual approaches to composition and form. We will isolate various improvisational activities such as making transitions, creating locations, sustaining energetic states and other compositional strategies to bring a deeper understanding to our own personal and intrinsic improvisational logic. We will compose scores that access our deeper layers of consciousness and challenge our assumptions about how we dance – uncovering both raw and sophisticated compositional patterns. I am curious about how meanings get affixed to particular moments in performance both willfully and not in our agency to reclaim and reenergize meanings and mistakes in the act of performance. We will dance for each other a lot.