Classes and workshops are located at various studios. Please look at the location listed, and click here to see maps of all locations, to find your studio.
No Dates Scheduled
No Dates Scheduled
Past Classes
September 1 - January 31
Wednesday
6:45 pm-9:30 pm
August 31 - December 31
Wednesday
6:45 pm-9:30 pm
August 1 - January 31
Wednesday
6:45 pm-9:30 pm
August 1 - January 31
Wednesday
6:45 pm-9:30 pm
Contact Improvisation
Contact improvisation is a partnering dance form. Skills such as rolling, releasing, giving and suppporting weight, expanding range of spatial concentration, lifting, catching, and falling help one move with and through gravity, share weight in motion and use momentum and flow in physical contact for joyful dancing. These weekly classes, open to people of all levels of movement experience, are informed variously by the individual teaching artist.
Contact improvisation is a partnering dance form. Skills such as rolling, releasing, giving and suppporting weight, expanding range of spatial concentration, lifting, catching, and falling help one move with and through gravity, share weight in motion and use momentum and flow in physical contact for joyful dancing. These weekly classes, open to people of all levels of movement experience, are informed variously by the individual teaching artist.
Vicky Shick
September 3 - September 26
Tuesday, Thursday
10:00 am-12:00 pm
Danspace Project
September 3 - September 26
Tuesday, Thursday
10:00 am-12:00 pm
Danspace Project
This class seeks to prepare an articulate, alert and neutral body, ready for precise dancing with intricate coordinations that we will work on together. There is a simple, straight-forward continuous warm-up that relies on the use of release, alignment, momentum, weight and strength. Clarity, simplicity of movement, attention to detail and concentration will be our goal.
K.J. Holmes
September 7 - December 28
Saturday
11:00 am-1:00 pm
Movement Research at Eden's Expressway
September 7 - December 28
Saturday
11:00 am-1:00 pm
Movement Research at Eden's Expressway
The Athletics of Intimacy, Improvisations
Classes combine skills and practices of Contact Improvisation, applications of Body-Mind Centering® and tutoring of somatic improvisational approaches in solo, duet (strong emphasis on partnering) and ensemble dancing. I am interested in the very physical, the very sensorial and the very imaginative, and in discovering new challenges and risks within our movement vocabulary. Series recommended, single classes available as well. All levels of experience welcome.
Classes combine skills and practices of Contact Improvisation, applications of Body-Mind Centering® and tutoring of somatic improvisational approaches in solo, duet (strong emphasis on partnering) and ensemble dancing. I am interested in the very physical, the very sensorial and the very imaginative, and in discovering new challenges and risks within our movement vocabulary. Series recommended, single classes available as well. All levels of experience welcome.
Miguel Gutierrez
September 16 - October 4
Monday, Wednesday, Friday
10:00 am-12:00 pm
Movement Research at Eden's Expressway
September 16 - October 4
Monday, Wednesday, Friday
10:00 am-12:00 pm
Movement Research at Eden's Expressway
It is possible to connect the experiential/energetic nature of moveing with the graphic nature of perception. With this in mind, class is an ever-evolving practice in preparing the body/mind and spirit for contemporary dance work. Improvisation, simple standing exercises and kinetically challenging phrasework come together to encourage dancers/dancing to be intelligent, grounded, sophisticated, risk-taking, present and ferocious. Personal attention is emphasized. Current influences are Body-Mind Centering and the Alexander Technique.
Juliette Mapp
October 1 - November 5
Tuesday, Thursday
10:00 am-12:00 pm
Danspace Project
October 1 - November 5
Tuesday, Thursday
10:00 am-12:00 pm
Danspace Project
Technique
This class will work in depth on developing awareness of alignment patterns to better understand each dancer's unique movement potential and style. Class will be an opportunty to allow the body and mind to release and become aware of pre-existing limitations in order to find greater movement range. Our warm-up will grow from internal structural and breath images to establish a consciousness in borth the minute and grand details of dance. Class will conclude with a combination built to further increase awareness and freedom inside each student's own dancing.
This class will work in depth on developing awareness of alignment patterns to better understand each dancer's unique movement potential and style. Class will be an opportunty to allow the body and mind to release and become aware of pre-existing limitations in order to find greater movement range. Our warm-up will grow from internal structural and breath images to establish a consciousness in borth the minute and grand details of dance. Class will conclude with a combination built to further increase awareness and freedom inside each student's own dancing.
Doug Elkins
October 7 - November 1
Monday, Wednesday, Friday
10:00 am-12:00 pm
Movement Research at Eden's Expressway
October 7 - November 1
Monday, Wednesday, Friday
10:00 am-12:00 pm
Movement Research at Eden's Expressway
Emphasis in this class will be put on bringing seemingly incongruous materials together. Technique and warm-up execises will be drawn from a variety of movement styles ranging from ballet and post-modern to street/club styles and martial arts. Phrases in the Elkins idiom will be introduced, emphasizing dynamic physicality and self expression.
Tere O'Connor
November 4 - November 22
Monday, Wednesday, Friday
10:00 am-12:00 pm
Movement Research at Eden's Expressway
November 4 - November 22
Monday, Wednesday, Friday
10:00 am-12:00 pm
Movement Research at Eden's Expressway
Technique
The goal of this class is to teach the dancer how to be an interpreter of movemement, constructing a store of tools used to approach performing. The class is centered on O'Connors dance language, which incorporates ballet, modern, ethnic, and historical forms, both real and invented. Concepts of body architecture, locomotion through space and body centering are explored. These are combined with a unique system for phrase structures derived from a physical stream of consciousness. This is characterized by an exaggerated density of steps and inorganic step sequencing transformed into logic. Musically, the class concentrates on extreme tempo change and dynamic finesse.
The goal of this class is to teach the dancer how to be an interpreter of movemement, constructing a store of tools used to approach performing. The class is centered on O'Connors dance language, which incorporates ballet, modern, ethnic, and historical forms, both real and invented. Concepts of body architecture, locomotion through space and body centering are explored. These are combined with a unique system for phrase structures derived from a physical stream of consciousness. This is characterized by an exaggerated density of steps and inorganic step sequencing transformed into logic. Musically, the class concentrates on extreme tempo change and dynamic finesse.
Lisa Race
November 7 - November 26
Tuesday, Thursday
10:00 am-12:00 pm
Danspace Project
November 7 - November 26
Tuesday, Thursday
10:00 am-12:00 pm
Danspace Project
Class will draw upon an athletic background to develop an ease with moving in and out of the floor in the most efficient effortless ways possible, and to develop a comfort with utilizing the hands as a weight bearing source. With these skills we will investigate various ways to effortlessly suspend and up-end the body in space, while remaining thouroughly grounded to the floor. Dance phrases will emphasize the use and thrill of momentum and gravity as a means to full-bodies, risky dancing, and at times challenge the body to defy those qualities.
Nicholas Leichter
December 16 - December 27
Monday, Wednesday, Friday
10:00 am-12:00 pm
Movement Research at Eden's Expressway
December 16 - December 27
Monday, Wednesday, Friday
10:00 am-12:00 pm
Movement Research at Eden's Expressway
Class begins with a soothing and sensual warm-up, realizing and utilizing the muscles and the joints to their fullest potential. Exercises become more complicated as the body becomes more prepared. Class will use Leichter's blend of gesture, hip-hop, funk and modern dance to achieve physical and spiritual ecstasy.
Jennifer Monson
January 14 - January 30
Tuesday, Thursday
10:00 am-12:00 pm
Danspace Project
January 14 - January 30
Tuesday, Thursday
10:00 am-12:00 pm
Danspace Project
Navigation from the Point of View of the Body
"Migration is specialized behavior especially evolved for the displacement of the individual in space" (entomologist Hugh Dingle)This could easily be a definition of dancing. Class will begin with a heightening of our own navigational stategies throgh the senses of sight, sound, and touch. This will include exercises that cultivate our ability to localize sounds, sensitize our responses to light and our perception of shape, touch, and direction. Once our perceptions are tuned and our desires are activated we will begin moving in response to our environment, navigating into and from our physical imaginations as we integrate dancing into a real and imagined landscape.
"Migration is specialized behavior especially evolved for the displacement of the individual in space" (entomologist Hugh Dingle)This could easily be a definition of dancing. Class will begin with a heightening of our own navigational stategies throgh the senses of sight, sound, and touch. This will include exercises that cultivate our ability to localize sounds, sensitize our responses to light and our perception of shape, touch, and direction. Once our perceptions are tuned and our desires are activated we will begin moving in response to our environment, navigating into and from our physical imaginations as we integrate dancing into a real and imagined landscape.
Barbara Mahler
January 20 - January 29
Monday, Wednesday
10:00 am-12:00 pm
Movement Research at Eden's Expressway
January 20 - January 29
Monday, Wednesday
10:00 am-12:00 pm
Movement Research at Eden's Expressway
Klein Technique
Klein Technique is a dance/movement technique. Its results are clarity and sureness of movement. Klein Technique began in 1972 developed by Susan Klein's journey from injury, through healing, and into health, working with the belief that the requirements of movement of daily life and dance are basically the same. The purpose is to re-educate the dancer's body, interweaving theory and practice on a physical and organic level. From this comes the potential for students to discover a range of intelligence in their dancing, as well as to help them discover and develop their own choreographic vision.
Klein Technique is a dance/movement technique. Its results are clarity and sureness of movement. Klein Technique began in 1972 developed by Susan Klein's journey from injury, through healing, and into health, working with the belief that the requirements of movement of daily life and dance are basically the same. The purpose is to re-educate the dancer's body, interweaving theory and practice on a physical and organic level. From this comes the potential for students to discover a range of intelligence in their dancing, as well as to help them discover and develop their own choreographic vision.
Workshops
No Dates Scheduled
Past Classes
Andrew de Lotbiniere Harwood
December 2 - December 6
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
10:00 am-1:00 pm
Danspace Project
December 2 - December 6
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
10:00 am-1:00 pm
Danspace Project
Contact Improvisation- Riding the Edge
The focus of this workshop is to: examine the role of perception, sensation, expression and imagination in our work; integrate contact improvisation into our improvisational palette in order to freely move in and out of partnering; alter the mind's beliefs about space and time and experience how this can dramatically affect our bodies and the way we move; and find a sense of timelessness in our dancing- a state of consciousness that is aware but not self-conscious. Dancers will be encouraged to ride the outer edge of their physical limits while attending to the rich inner worlds of sensation, imagination, and inspration.
The focus of this workshop is to: examine the role of perception, sensation, expression and imagination in our work; integrate contact improvisation into our improvisational palette in order to freely move in and out of partnering; alter the mind's beliefs about space and time and experience how this can dramatically affect our bodies and the way we move; and find a sense of timelessness in our dancing- a state of consciousness that is aware but not self-conscious. Dancers will be encouraged to ride the outer edge of their physical limits while attending to the rich inner worlds of sensation, imagination, and inspration.
Nancy Stark Smith
December 2 - December 6
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
2:00 pm-5:00 pm
Movement Research at Eden's Expressway
December 2 - December 6
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
2:00 pm-5:00 pm
Movement Research at Eden's Expressway
ZOOM: Contact Improvisation in Detail and Perspective
Returning to simple physical and perceptual principles and techniques to help clarify, enliven and refine our dancing in Contact Improvisation. With this sensational orientation as our base, we'll bring Contact Improvisation into play within a broader field of improvisational/compositional dancing. By working with a few specific practices and scores, we'll address physical and enegetic changes of state, natural composition, presence and relationship. Alone, in and out of contact, in groups, in silence and with occasional live music by Mike Vargas, we'll develop our ability to focus our dancing at various levels of magnification.
Returning to simple physical and perceptual principles and techniques to help clarify, enliven and refine our dancing in Contact Improvisation. With this sensational orientation as our base, we'll bring Contact Improvisation into play within a broader field of improvisational/compositional dancing. By working with a few specific practices and scores, we'll address physical and enegetic changes of state, natural composition, presence and relationship. Alone, in and out of contact, in groups, in silence and with occasional live music by Mike Vargas, we'll develop our ability to focus our dancing at various levels of magnification.
Mike Vargas
December 7
Saturday
2:00 pm-5:00 pm
Movement Research at Eden's Expressway
December 7
Saturday
2:00 pm-5:00 pm
Movement Research at Eden's Expressway
Looking at Composition is like Painting the Golden Gate Bridge
Composition is the putting together of a whole by the combination of parts. We'll focus on the nature of organization, researching practical applications for a collection of concepts I call "85 Aspects of Composition", a checklist of selective filters meant to help us break down the mechanics of inspiration. By deciding which of these filters or "lenses" to look through, we simplify the field of view for a given moment, directing our attention, on whatever scale we choose, toward specific issues. Taking turns improvising and watching structures based on aspects such as balance, community, geography, generosity, mystery, proportion, repitition, and timing, we'll clarify and refine our actions and our perceptions.
Composition is the putting together of a whole by the combination of parts. We'll focus on the nature of organization, researching practical applications for a collection of concepts I call "85 Aspects of Composition", a checklist of selective filters meant to help us break down the mechanics of inspiration. By deciding which of these filters or "lenses" to look through, we simplify the field of view for a given moment, directing our attention, on whatever scale we choose, toward specific issues. Taking turns improvising and watching structures based on aspects such as balance, community, geography, generosity, mystery, proportion, repitition, and timing, we'll clarify and refine our actions and our perceptions.
Julyen Hamilton
December 9 - December 13
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
10:00 am-1:00 pm
Movement Research at Eden's Expressway
December 9 - December 13
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
10:00 am-1:00 pm
Movement Research at Eden's Expressway
Some considerations concerning SPACE when improvising before a public
Julyen Hamilton's work as an improvising dance artist has been the base for his teaching work over the past 20 years. This work falls into three areas: space, time, and dramaturgy. In these classes, the main focus will be upon space. The dancing practice in the classes will be conceptual, technical, practical, and creative.
Julyen Hamilton's work as an improvising dance artist has been the base for his teaching work over the past 20 years. This work falls into three areas: space, time, and dramaturgy. In these classes, the main focus will be upon space. The dancing practice in the classes will be conceptual, technical, practical, and creative.
Kim Epifano
December 9 - December 13
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday
2:00 pm-5:00 pm
December 9 - December 13
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday
2:00 pm-5:00 pm
Up and Under (Air Contact)
A three hour daily intensive, beginning with: BELLY/ Breath/Sounding/Stretching/ Strengthening/Lengthening/ALigning. Using rhythm and phrases, get down on your arms, and up on your legs. Coming into contact with groups and duets, follow your body and voice to find the up and under with AIR. Open the mind and imagination to their potential. Expolore weight sharing, balance, and body awareness, while learning to move in relation to one's self, the floor and a partner. Suspend, accelerate, REBOUND and find surprise within the dance of partnering. Deepen the skill and improvisation in contact; it is a science and a playground.
A three hour daily intensive, beginning with: BELLY/ Breath/Sounding/Stretching/ Strengthening/Lengthening/ALigning. Using rhythm and phrases, get down on your arms, and up on your legs. Coming into contact with groups and duets, follow your body and voice to find the up and under with AIR. Open the mind and imagination to their potential. Expolore weight sharing, balance, and body awareness, while learning to move in relation to one's self, the floor and a partner. Suspend, accelerate, REBOUND and find surprise within the dance of partnering. Deepen the skill and improvisation in contact; it is a science and a playground.
Katie Duck
December 12 - December 14
Thursday, Friday, Saturday
2:00 pm-5:00 pm
December 12 - December 14
Thursday, Friday, Saturday
2:00 pm-5:00 pm
Composition/ Improvisation
Music (Cage-improvisation music), choreography and theater scores placed in improvisation sessions with feedback, which defines the concerns about ensemble improvisation. (Example) entrance and exit, timing, space orientation, presence, physical states, disappearance and appearance, theme and variation of a structure, variation off a theme, silence, counter point, space shifts, site-specific and the gathered crowd, individual (physical materials) and ensemble transformations (solo, duet, trio, etc)The overall concern is for the dance student to be able to use chance and choice in a flexible and intelligent way.
Music (Cage-improvisation music), choreography and theater scores placed in improvisation sessions with feedback, which defines the concerns about ensemble improvisation. (Example) entrance and exit, timing, space orientation, presence, physical states, disappearance and appearance, theme and variation of a structure, variation off a theme, silence, counter point, space shifts, site-specific and the gathered crowd, individual (physical materials) and ensemble transformations (solo, duet, trio, etc)The overall concern is for the dance student to be able to use chance and choice in a flexible and intelligent way.
