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The Underscore

Luce Mahler

  • Sundays, July 14 - December 22, 2024 | 1-5PM
  • Free class
  • Eden’s Expressway
  • Improvisational Forms
A group of people standing in a circle, holding hands. Photo courtesy of Luce Mahler.
ID: A group of people standing in a circle, holding hands. Photo courtesy of Luce Mahler.

Upcoming Underscore Classes:

The suggested donation for The Underscore is $15 (cash only). The Underscore Facilitators will be taking care of registration prior to the session.

The Underscore is a dance improvisation structure developed by Nancy Stark Smith. Based in Contact Improvisation (CI), it comprises a spectrum of states, from quiet, internal activity to high-energy, interactive dancing. Undirected; for research and play. Open to all familiar with Contact Improvisation. Deepen your practice with a “talk-through”. Underscore NYC offers “talk-throughs” to introduce Underscore’s 50+ glyphs and concepts.

1 PM – 2 PM: Warmup and intro/review of The Underscore glyph.
2 PM – 5 PM: Circle and score starts on time. Doors close at 2:15 PM.

Underscore Facilitators: Luce Mahler, Ilona Bito, Funda Gul, Adam Lempel, Elise Knudson, and Nicole Touzien.

Accessibility Notes

  • This class/workshop includes auditive guidance.

Location

Eden’s Expressway
537 Broadway 4th Fl
New York, NY 10012

  • Get the Green - IRT Lexington Avenue Line numbers: 6 to Spring Street
  • Get the Yellow - BMT Broadway Line numbers: N , R to Prince Street
  • Get the Orange - IND Sixth Avenue Line numbers: B , D , F , M to Broadway - Lafayette
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Faculty

Luce Mahler

Luce Mahler

Luce Mahler BFA, LMT, is a nonbinary dancer, muralist healer, and 2 time cancer survivor and more recently a differently abled dancing body. She has taught dance and directed mural projects internationally in Cuba, Ecuador, Peru, Mexico, Europe, and the States for the last 4 decades. Her dance practice is anchored in Authentic Movement and Skinner Releasing Technique, becoming certified with master teachers Aileen Crow AM and Joan Skinner SRT ~ practices she brings to her creation of the "Urban WONDERscore," her classes of Contact Improvisation and over the last decade coordinating Nancy Stark Smith's Underscore for Movement Research, Global Underscore and for UnderscoreNYC. Dance communion, inclusion, and celebration of our unique and creative diversity in age, race, gender identity, and expression, body shape, size, and differently-abled bodies, breaths the life force and creates the wonder in every WonderUnderscore! She is one of the organizers of the CONTACTCUBA annual festival in Havana. And is also the author of the adult children's book, Lucy Be.

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