Movement Class
This movement class will develop from simple skeletal mobility sequences to full-out movement forms. Emphasis will be placed on your joints, examining how their range of motion relates to alignment, support, weight, pathway and qualitative detail in the course of movement. We will consider the inherent lines in the body's anatomy as the basis for movement material in a full range, from neutral to provocative.

Instant Performance
What if everything we need to make a compelling performance is already in or around us? What if we practice harnessing a consciousness of immediacy, explicit mystery, relevance, irreverence and import? What if instead of worrying about money, time and space, we use compression and imagination to tap into somatic tuning, compositional accident and improvisational decision making to create experiences that are definitive and unstable? Can we identify and sophisticate a relationship between depth and speed? Let's spend a week reinvigorating our ability to discover through process. Let's practice making Instant Performance.

Systems/Scores: practice/process
In this workshop we will investigate how we make scores out of the systems that we live in, observe and are attracted to. A score is an open structure that creates improvisational choices for a particular context. We will create systems for movement that can be layered into performance scores. This will be our practice. How does the practice influence our approach to performance? How do we observe and shape this process? How can our practice of making scores help us to observe the possibilities in movement and choreographic systems? We will work on presence, states of moving and scales of sensation and time. We will perform our scores daily.

technique |tekˈnēk|
technique |tekˈnēk| noun a way of carrying out a particular task, esp. the execution or performance of an artistic work or a scientific procedure. Ò€’ skill or ability in a particular field : he has excellent technique | [in sing. ] Ò€’ a skillful or efficient way of doing or achieving something This class will approach "technique" by redefining notions of strength and virtuosity, valuing subtlety and utilizing mindfulness and self-observation as physical practices. We'll awaken the brain and the body, learn by expansion rather than concentration, rigorously attend to the present and learn precise, task-oriented, simple and complex movement phrases.

Volutes
Participants will learn Volutes, choreographed by Peggy Baker and Irene Dowd as a high momentum warm-up, which especially mobilizes our pelvis as well as our eyes, spine, hips and shoulders. Practicing Volutes enhances flexibility for the "tight" dancer and dynamic control for the "loose-jointed" dancer.

Doing It
What is your first impulse? Can you trust it? What happens when the judge falls asleep? Can sight be a handicap? Can you know too much? This is a workshop about Composition.

Improvisational Ò€œScoresÒ€
In this workshop, we will investigate my improvisational technique, which I call Ò€œScores.Ò€ Ò€œScoresÒ€ are essentially words, containing images, that we learn and then utilize to possess our bodies from head to toe. Ò€œScoresÒ€ can be physical, emotional, psychological or spiritual. Some Ò€œScoresÒ€ will possess different body parts. Some Ò€œScores,Ò€ which I call Ò€œno-no scores,Ò€ explore socially-unaccepted content. We will allow these Ò€œno-no scoresÒ€ to travel through the subconscious revealing to us our true opinions about them. We will utilize Releasing Technique in the warm-ups revealing to us the capability to fill our Ò€œemptyÒ€ bodies with images. Authentic movement, as a warm-up, will guide us through powerful qualities.

Movement Practice
The class will begin with an anatomy focused warm-up, drawn from both traditional and recent techniques, aiming to align and re-pattern the energy flow in the body in order to find support from the floor and our connection into space. We will begin with simple movements, improvisation scores, exercises and sequences gradually building in complexity. We will learn movement material, some from Jasperse's work and some created for these explorations. Our goal will be to integrate energetic patterning explored in the first portion of class and to play with different manners of experiencing and embodying the choreographic material.

Workshop in Performance
What are we talking about when we focus on Ò€œperformance?Ò€ Consciousness? Being, doing, enacting, responding, connecting? Intention, direction, desire, risk? This workshop is designed to expand your awareness, knowledge, skills, experience and strategies for performance. Geared for dance practitioners, the work draws on different modes of live performance, across disciplines. The workshop is structured around a sequence of questions, explorations, performances, reflective actions and discussion. Please bring in 1-3 minutes of your material for starters.