Technique
This class encourages moving into spatial extremes outside of imagined boundaries. The warm-up, using elements from Yoga, Ballet, and Release Technique, focuses on discovering and strengthening connections within the body's structure and maximizing the effects of gravity and momentum to move into space. Through phrase-work, we will explore the tension between secure, grounded placement and a sense of being out of control, as well as learning to use breath to maintain a center from which to explode.

Klein/ Mahler Technique: 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.

Technique
Using the luxury of five continuous days of dacing together, we will take the time to investigate different states of awareness. Each class will be three-fold, beginnig 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 are designed to build our knowledge of individual and physical patterns that may block us from deepening the use our selves as artists. In the process of learning the 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.

Resonance
This is new choreography intended as a daily conditioning and warm-up for dancers/teachers. It is designed to induce vibration to our bones, lubricate our joints, exchange supple coordiantin of the eyes, hands, and feet in continuously carrying relationships with each other as well as with the inhabited space around us and the resonant ground.

Composition: Soft Parts/Hard Parts
Tearing a piece of paper has many parts, the paper, you, and the space between, the action of gripping the paper and pulling the sides apart, the sound as you grasp and tear it, as the halves fall to the table or crumple in your hand. There is the new configuration of your paper pieces, and your observation and recollection of it, its finality as a gesture and the possiblity of many repetitions of what will remain a unique gesture, despite endless repetitions.

Technique
Beginning slow and sensual, intimate and intertwined, Leichter's class builds gesture on gesture and idea on form. Using an array of styles and influences creating a cultivated culture clash, class will contextualize our varied interests and influences to create something exciting and fresh.

Dance and the Alexander Technique
This class will guide you to more fluidity, ease, balance, sense of direction, movement flow and awareness in your movement through exploring the principles of Alexander Technique. You will discover how you think about your movement now and how your thinking and seeing can adjust to enhance your movement, making it more connected and efficient. You will learn more about the immediate connection between your mind and body- how your thinking impacts your movement. Classes will include working in partners, individual awareness movement, full body dancing, and time to address the movement concerns of the course participants.

Composition/ Physical Relationships
Through a series of improvisations and choreographic sketches, we will explore making dances as the process of creating a series of physical relations. The experiements will include the cultivation of bodily states through the use of imagery and partner work and structuring physical problems, which in turn effect our bodily state. Limitation will be examined as an integral part of composition. Throught this we will seek to develop work which exhibits a personal and evocative language, contemporary cultural and social relevance, intelligence (in its various forms), and guts.