Technique
This class begins with a warm-up that draws from various sources including Kelin Technique and Alexander Technique. It focuses on alignment, the use of the deep postural muscles for support, and the connection to and use of the floor-all in the service of freeing us to move with ease, specificity, and strength. Class phrases focus on traveling in the space, moving easily in and out of the floor and taking chances off-balance.

Repertory
The repertory class will be a high energy affair, mixing lofty and lyrical with near collisions and last minute saves. Elkin's choreography draws on a wide range of refereces including hip hop, capoiera, kung fu, contact improvisation, and contemporary forms set against a back drop of opera and house music. Please bring knee pads (for floorwork).

Delicious Movement Workshop
Eiko & Koma's movement vocabulary, which employs images, body articulation, floor work and transformation, is provided as the common ground. However, the aim of the workshop is not to teach this vocabulary. Rather, the participants, through their personal digestion of the material and of the improvisation and nonchalant partnership which supports it, are encouraged to acquire personal taste and flexible discipline to suit their own moving body.

Technique
This warm-up and movement class will develop from simple skeletal mobility sequences to full-out, spatial movement forms. Emphasis will be placed on finding weight and fluidity in the arms and torso, while generating a complimentary pliancy in the legs. The class will culminate in phrase work and traveling sequences.

Advanced Improvisation
We will explore improvisation as a path to finding a more sentient technique and a more vibrant performing presence; a sharper capacity to identify the "conversation" one is having with another or with oneself; structures, narratives, and scores that investigate the new and revitalize familiar; ways to break down habitual patterns of thinking, feeling, and moving, replacing them with an increased ability to play with weight shift, breath, momentum, rhythm, space, time, design, sensation, and memory; choreoraphic skills that melt resistance and stimulate ideas and diciplne; a unique performance style that arises form a sentient body, a curious mind, and an open heart.

Composition
Through a series of improvisations and choreographic sketches, we will explore making dances as the process of creating a series of physical relations, both between performers and within time and space. We'll begin by cultivating internal bodily states through the use of images and partner work, manifesting these states in movement. From there, we'll reverse this process, starting with various sources including memory, text and our cultural environment, to structure physical situations which in turn effect our bodily states. With information moving in both directions, we'll set out to mix and (mis)match our materials, using limitation as an integral part of composition, in our search for dance that exhibits a personal movement language, an evocative aesthetic sensibility, intelligence and guts.

Technique
This class begins with a warm-up that draws from various sources including Kelin Technique and Alexander Technique. It focuses on alignment, the use of the deep postural muscles for support, and the connection to and use of the floor-all in the service of freeing us to move with ease, specificity, and strength. Class phrases focus on traveling in the space, moving easily in and out of the floor and taking chances off-balance.

Repertory
Donna Uchizono, whose work is known for its "wit, spicy movement and rich invention," will teach work from two company pieces of Donna Uchizono Company's repertory. Recently acquired by the D-9 Dance Collective, the Wayne Brothers is an intense energetic work with movement passages infused with speed, split-second directional changes and peppery movement. With its breathtaking opening, State of Heads creates a world of odd, yet endearing characters with movement that has a subtle wit anchored in the recognition of our human imperfections.

Composition
Do you like to create but have difficulty getting started? Have you started countless pieces but have trouble finishing them? In daily assignments beginning from highly structured improvisations, this class will explore how to begin, how to continue, how the mind helps, how the mind hinders, how to feel/know the "yes" when the body, mind, and heart are alive and in agreement, how to keep working when the "yes" doesn't come, how the here effects what you do, how what you hear affects what you see. Through solo, duet, and group forms, we will explore different ways of unearthing and structuring the voices waiting to be heard through movement, ideas, sensation, deep feeling, and memory. Open to the fearful and fearless of all ages and persuations. Movement, music, words, and environments of all kinds will be explored.