Movement Memory
This workshop will explore how personal physical histories are stored and communicated. Focus will be given to creating ritualized practices that encourage participants to observe and reflect upon their somatic sensations in relation to specific environments and situations. This workshop is geared towards movers looking to gain deeper movement clarity and a fuller performance presence. We will use active imagination to guide our remembrance of specific environments, and use this information to enhance our performance. Workshop Objectives: Ã｢âぎÂ｢Develop your ability to record and retrieve sensory and kinetic information from your environment Ã｢âぎÂ｢Learn how the mind and body process and store sensory and kinetic information? Ã｢âぎÂ｢Practice movement rituals that will heighten you ability to recall sensory information

SOLD OUT
Presented in partnership with Danspace Project. Early Bird Special: $125 before March 1, $150 after March 1. THIS WORKSHOP IS CURRENTLY SOLD OUT. The waitlist for this workshop is closed at this time. Halprin, now 89, will present a special participatory one-day workshop. Framing the workshop is the question: Does dance make a difference? Does it make a difference in our lives, relationships, community --in the world we live in?" In this laboratory participants will address this question through various approaches to analyzing movement, scoring and performing, culminating in the worldwide Planetary Dance to be performed ..... Please note arrival and check in begins at 9:30am. Please arrive at 9:30 or shortly thereafter, and not before.

Practicing Performance
THIS WORKSHOP IS SOLD OUT. Ã｢âぎÅ“What if where I am is what I need,Ã｢âぎÂ� is not an examination of what I need but an examination of the question Ã｢âぎÅ“What if where I am is what I need?Ã｢âぎÂ� What if less is more is not less? What if dance is how I practice my relationship with my whole body in relationship to the space where I am dancing in relationship to each passing moment in relationship to my audience? What if the depth of the question is on its surface?

Page/Stage Your Silence Through Embodiment WORKSHOP NOW FULL
We move to de-contain. We move to re-member and forget. Our bodies are containment of noises and silences of our memories that are constantly affecting how we live our lives now. This workshop explores our unshared, untold stories through embodiment. It is a practice to give voices to our muted memories. Using both writing and moving as forms of embodiment, we will break and un-break our silence through bodily thinking with the question "How can we use words as we use movement?" Our bodies speak louder than words, but as we search for words and inscriptions to "match" what our bodies have spoken, it can become performative writing. We will use writing as a treasure hunter of dance and silence. This class will start with a silent warm-up leading into improvisation and composition. We will explore several layers and dimensions of silence in and outside of our bodies. There will be showing of our materials utilizing what we created-both individually and collectively. The showing as a practice of sharing/caring will have both aspects of page and stage (meaning a printed booklet/journal and a performance at the end of the workshop). Pre-registration recommended.

Cancelled--sorry!!!
This Master Class explores various movement forms - abstract, modern, full-bodied, grounded and rhythm-based movement and postmodern structure. We will utilize elements and movement languages from cultures of the Southern U.S., the Caribbean and Southern, Western and Central Africa. Attention is focused on the weight and direction of the pelvis, the use of the full foot and the use of the full range of the demi-pliÃ�Âｩ.

AUDIT ONLY AT THIS TIME
Anna Halprin returns to offer a second one-day participatory life/art workshop on the occasion of the New York premier of Ã｢âぎÅ“Breath Made VisibleÃ｢âぎÂ�, a documentary film about AnnaÃ｢âぎâ┐s career. This workshop will explore the question: How does dance inform our real life relationships with our own bodies in interaction with others and in community? We will address this question through developing movement awareness and exploring physical movement, feelings, and imagery. Participation is open to all. To join the waitlist email info@movementresearch.org with your name, email address, and phone number. To audit pay online or mail your check to Movement Research at the mailing address below. Auditors will observe approximately 2/3 of the workshop, and will be able to participate in the Planetary Dance.

The Presence of Space
In this intimate two-day workshop we will start with touch to facilitate awareness of internal and external space and as a means of warming up our sensed communication capacities. From there we will work in duet forms that activate the dynamic presence of space. This will lead to solo practices built from the process of touching, dancing together and listening with each other. We will work with sensory and conceptual space, activating physical imagination through energetic modes of moving and communicating with each other. We will go from there.

Deconstructing Ballet for Contemporary Dancers
This workshop focuses on the deconstruction of movement into technical basics that dancers from varied backgrounds can understand. Everyone learns. We work from the bottom up, from foundaÃ�Âｬtion to anatomically sound, honest movement. We work on the specifics of how one learns. It is the investigation of working from the inside out, from placing the bones where the muscles are allowed to function effortlessly and efficiently, thus discouragÃ�Âｬing muscular overuse. We remove artificial affecÃ�Âｬtions, leaving just the core technique, the pure physiÃ�Âｬcal architecture of the body. The ultimate goal of this study is to appreciate function as beauty. Everything discussed gets reconstructed back into movement and can easily be applied to other forms of dance.

Presence and Performance
Over the last two decades, choreographer RoseAnne Spradlin has been synthesizing studies in BodyÃ�ÂｬMind CenteringÃ�Âｮ and Chinese Medicine to arrive at strategies for internal cultivation and training for contemporary dance/performance artists. These two classes offered as part of the 2010 MR Festival will explore how the performerÃ｢âぎâ┐s body/mind state contributes to the creation of tone and meaning in performance. Beginning with explorations of the cellular-level of movement, the classes will use guidÃ�Âｬed somatizations and personal and group improvisaÃ�Âｬtions to explore key concepts in embodiment. No previous knowledge of BMCÃ�Âｮ or CM is necessary, however, an open mind is essential!