No Dates Scheduled
No Dates Scheduled
Past Classes
January 31 - June 30
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.
Kirstie Simson
February 1 - February 22
Saturday
11:00 am-1:00 pm
Movement Research at Eden's Expressway
February 1 - February 22
Saturday
11:00 am-1:00 pm
Movement Research at Eden's Expressway
Luscious Dancing; Improvisation with Partnering Skills
In these classes there will be a strong emphasis on developing the skills of sustaining and extending one's range of improvised solo dancing, working with musical accompaniment. We will take this into duet and ensemble dancing without compromising one's own process of choice and creativity while being at one with a partner(s) dancing.
In these classes there will be a strong emphasis on developing the skills of sustaining and extending one's range of improvised solo dancing, working with musical accompaniment. We will take this into duet and ensemble dancing without compromising one's own process of choice and creativity while being at one with a partner(s) dancing.
Juliette Maap
February 3 - February 28
Monday, Wednesday, Friday
10:00 am-12:00 pm
Movement Research at Eden's Expressway
February 3 - February 28
Monday, Wednesday, Friday
10:00 am-12:00 pm
Movement Research at Eden's Expressway
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.
Lisa Race
February 4 - February 27
Tuesday, Thursday
10:00 am-12:00 pm
Danspace Project
February 4 - February 27
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.
K. J. Holmes
March 1 - May 31
Saturday
11:00 am-1:00 pm
Movement Research at Eden's Expressway
March 1 - May 31
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.
K.J. Holmes
March 1 - May 31
Saturday
11:00 am-1:00 pm
Movement Research at Eden's Expressway
March 1 - May 31
Saturday
11:00 am-1:00 pm
Movement Research at Eden's Expressway
The Athletics of Intimacy, Improvisations
See class description under March Classes
See class description under March Classes
ChameckiLerner (Rosane Chamecki/Andrea Lerner)
March 3 - March 28
Monday, Wednesday, Friday
10:00 am-12:00 pm
Movement Research at Eden's Expressway
March 3 - March 28
Monday, Wednesday, Friday
10:00 am-12:00 pm
Movement Research at Eden's Expressway
These classes are focused on establishing the connections through our skeletal structure and into the floor, in order to release the most superficial muscles. By working in this manner, the students are able to partner and manipulate their own bodies as well as expand and isolate their range of motion. After the warm-up, srudents will learn sections of the company repertory. Some sections will be reworked with the students' input, following the same improvisation structures used to create the original movements of that section.
Yvonne Meier
March 4 - March 27
Tuesday, Thursday
10:00 am-12:00 pm
Movement Research at Eden's Expressway
March 4 - March 27
Tuesday, Thursday
10:00 am-12:00 pm
Movement Research at Eden's Expressway
Scores
Scores is a unique improvisation technique that taps into our emotionality, psychology, and physicality. Using specific words like "crumbling," "flinging," and/or "shooting" or more complez scores like "mad turns ending up in a cloud" the student takes takes the score through the body and with creativity turns it into a dance. Often the releasing pricipal of being moved by the score applies.
Scores is a unique improvisation technique that taps into our emotionality, psychology, and physicality. Using specific words like "crumbling," "flinging," and/or "shooting" or more complez scores like "mad turns ending up in a cloud" the student takes takes the score through the body and with creativity turns it into a dance. Often the releasing pricipal of being moved by the score applies.
Doug Elkins
March 4 - March 27
Tuesday, Thursday
10:00 am-12:00 pm
Danspace Project
March 4 - March 27
Tuesday, Thursday
10:00 am-12:00 pm
Danspace Project
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.
Michelle Boule
March 31 - April 11
Monday, Wednesday, Friday
10:00 am-12:00 pm
Movement Research at Eden's Expressway
March 31 - April 11
Monday, Wednesday, Friday
10:00 am-12:00 pm
Movement Research at Eden's Expressway
This warm-up often begins on the floor and moves to standing via simple exercises and improvisations designed to ready the body and mind for movement. The focus is to undo holding patterns, find motion through openness, and continually clarify the body's relationship to external space. Phrases aknowledge the wholeness of the body and provide an opportunity to move dynamically, directing energy and weight with momentum, clarity, strength, ease, and active choices. Michelle's teaching is influenced by her continuous studies of dance, the Alexander Technique, Bartenieff Fundamentals, Body-Mind Centering, Qi Gong and other movement forms.
Kirstie Simson
April 1 - May 1
Tuesday, Thursday
10:00 am-12:00 pm
Movement Research at Eden's Expressway
April 1 - May 1
Tuesday, Thursday
10:00 am-12:00 pm
Movement Research at Eden's Expressway
Luscious Dancing; Improvisation with Partnering Skills
In these classes there will be a strong emphasis on developing the skills of sustaining and extending one's range of improvised solo dancing, working with musical accompaniment. We will take this into duet and ensemble dancing without compromising one's own process of choice and creativity while being at one with a partner(s) dancing.
In these classes there will be a strong emphasis on developing the skills of sustaining and extending one's range of improvised solo dancing, working with musical accompaniment. We will take this into duet and ensemble dancing without compromising one's own process of choice and creativity while being at one with a partner(s) dancing.
Levi Gonzales
April 1 - May 1
Tuesday, Thursday
10:00 am-12:00 pm
Danspace Project
April 1 - May 1
Tuesday, Thursday
10:00 am-12:00 pm
Danspace Project
Using anatomical principles of weight, momentum and energetic connection into space, we will explore movement that is fast, luxurious, quirky, and complex. A more articulate physical state is achieved by neutralizing habitual muscualr patterns and emphasizing the nuts and bolts of what is possible in movement. Dancers are encouraged to explore their own descision making process in interpreting, executing, and ultimately transforming the movement material.
Juliette Mapp
April 14 - May 2
Monday, Wednesday, Friday
10:00 am-12:00 pm
Movement Research at Eden's Expressway
April 14 - May 2
Monday, Wednesday, Friday
10:00 am-12:00 pm
Movement Research at Eden's Expressway
See class description under February Classes
Miguel Gutierrez
May 5 - May 30
Monday, Wednesday, Friday
10:00 am-12:00 pm
Movement Research at Eden's Expressway
May 5 - May 30
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.
Jennifer Monson
May 6 - May 29
Tuesday, Thursday
10:00 am-12:00 pm
Movement Research at Eden's Expressway
May 6 - May 29
Tuesday, Thursday
10:00 am-12:00 pm
Movement Research at Eden's Expressway
Improvisation
In this workshop we will bring an investigative curiosity to our inquiry of how we improvise. Working within a conceptual base of what it means to navigate, we will isolate various improvisational activities such as making transitions, creating locations, and sustaining energetic states, to bring a deeper understanding to our own personal and intrinsic improvisational logic. I m also curious about how meanings get affixed to particular moments both willfully and not and in our agency to reclaim and reenergize meanings and mistakes in the act of performance. We will dance a lot.
In this workshop we will bring an investigative curiosity to our inquiry of how we improvise. Working within a conceptual base of what it means to navigate, we will isolate various improvisational activities such as making transitions, creating locations, and sustaining energetic states, to bring a deeper understanding to our own personal and intrinsic improvisational logic. I m also curious about how meanings get affixed to particular moments both willfully and not and in our agency to reclaim and reenergize meanings and mistakes in the act of performance. We will dance a lot.
Tere O'Connor
May 6 - May 29
Tuesday, Thursday
10:00 am-12:00 pm
Danspace Project
May 6 - May 29
Tuesday, Thursday
10:00 am-12:00 pm
Danspace Project
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.
DD Dorvillier
June 2 - June 26
Tuesday, Thursday
10:00 am-12:00 pm
Movement Research at Eden's Expressway
June 2 - June 26
Tuesday, Thursday
10:00 am-12:00 pm
Movement Research at Eden's Expressway
Releasing
This class will draw upon the foundational principles of the Skinner Release Technique, using its distinct imagery to cultivate alignment, balance, and economy of movement through solo improvisations and partner-assisted exercises. The class will also explore movement pathways that are a bridge between the conscious and the unconscious, using the practice of Authentic Movement.
This class will draw upon the foundational principles of the Skinner Release Technique, using its distinct imagery to cultivate alignment, balance, and economy of movement through solo improvisations and partner-assisted exercises. The class will also explore movement pathways that are a bridge between the conscious and the unconscious, using the practice of Authentic Movement.
Jeanine Durning
June 2 - July 2
Monday, Wednesday, Friday
10:00 am-12:00 pm
Movement Research at Eden's Expressway
June 2 - July 2
Monday, Wednesday, Friday
10:00 am-12:00 pm
Movement Research at Eden's Expressway
Class is designed to prepare the moving body through awareness and to increase the functional knowledge of our bodies (skeletal and joint systems, release with direction, weight and momentum) so that we may move with more efficiency, sensitivity, specificity and focus. Particular attention is paid to the initiations of movement and to extending the boundaries of those initiations, through a balance of physicality, intention, expression, and interpretation. Attention to detail will be explored through set material as the individual comes into his/her own way of seeing, translating and experiencing movement.
Vicky Shick
June 3 - July 3
Tuesday, Thursday
10:00 am-12:00 pm
Danspace Project
June 3 - July 3
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.
Workshops
No Dates Scheduled
Past Classes
Shelley Senter
April 28 - May 2
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
1:00 pm-3:00 pm
Movement Research at Eden's Expressway
April 28 - May 2
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
1:00 pm-3:00 pm
Movement Research at Eden's Expressway
Alexander Technique for Dancers
The Alexander Technique is a means of identifying and modifying the mental and physical limitations (habits) that interfere with one's full range of possibilities, as well as honing one's ability to make choices (take responsibility). In this workshop the principles of the Alexander Technique will be explained and explored, including "inhibition", "direction", and concepts such as "non-doing". Anatomical information, observation, and the cultivation of awareness are the tools at hand for investigating limitations, possibilities, and ultimately more clearing manifesting one's intentions.
The Alexander Technique is a means of identifying and modifying the mental and physical limitations (habits) that interfere with one's full range of possibilities, as well as honing one's ability to make choices (take responsibility). In this workshop the principles of the Alexander Technique will be explained and explored, including "inhibition", "direction", and concepts such as "non-doing". Anatomical information, observation, and the cultivation of awareness are the tools at hand for investigating limitations, possibilities, and ultimately more clearing manifesting one's intentions.
Eiko and Koma
June 16 - June 19
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
1:00 pm-4:00 pm
Danspace Project
June 16 - June 19
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
1:00 pm-4:00 pm
Danspace Project
Delicious Movement Workshop
Held in conjunction with Danspace Project's presentation of Eiko and Koma's Offering, this workshop is designed for dancers, actors, poets, musicians and visual artists who want to move with delicious feelings (no dance experience necessary). Eiko and Koma's movement vocabulary, compositional and performance techniques, which employ images, body articulation, floor work, and transformation, are provided as the common ground. The aim is to encourage the participants, throught their personal digestion of the material and of the improvisation and nonchalant partnership that supports it, to acquire personal taste and flexible discipline to suit their own moving body. Participants are guided through a series of exercises designed to increase skill and awareness in the areas of focus, coordination and stance. During the final hour of each day, workshop participants will work within the outdoor set of Offering.
Held in conjunction with Danspace Project's presentation of Eiko and Koma's Offering, this workshop is designed for dancers, actors, poets, musicians and visual artists who want to move with delicious feelings (no dance experience necessary). Eiko and Koma's movement vocabulary, compositional and performance techniques, which employ images, body articulation, floor work, and transformation, are provided as the common ground. The aim is to encourage the participants, throught their personal digestion of the material and of the improvisation and nonchalant partnership that supports it, to acquire personal taste and flexible discipline to suit their own moving body. Participants are guided through a series of exercises designed to increase skill and awareness in the areas of focus, coordination and stance. During the final hour of each day, workshop participants will work within the outdoor set of Offering.
