Showing posts with label seattle dance classe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label seattle dance classe. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 9, 2013
Contact Improvisation and Tuning Scores Workshop
Internal Crafting
with Karen Nelson
Inner sensing of form, skeleton, reflex, and inherent spirals in Paxton’s Material for the Spine become the basis for exploring the Contact duet’s primary agreement, “freedom to improvise.” Studying Lisa Nelson’s powerful composition tools, Tuning Scores, dances will unfold in space.
In each 5-hour session there will be some time for individual attention, questions and feedback, as well as writing, resting and snacking; bring supplies. All levels of experience are welcome.
Thurs + Fri, Nov 7 - 8, 4pm-9pm
Velocity Founders Studio
1621 12th Ave, Seattle
Cost: $100 with registration before October 22; $125 after that.
Single session (Thurs only) $75.
[some scholarships/work exchange available]
To register, contact Karen at
heartgreen (at) yahoo.com
or 503-740-0523
Karen Nelson is a dance improvisation artist, meditation practitioner, community activist and learner. In her teaching she brings over 35 years of embodiment practices developed thru the lenses of Contact Improvisation/Material for the Spine, Tuning Scores, Contemplative Dance Practice and more, with teachers Steve Paxton, Lisa Nelson, Barbara Dilley and others, respectively. Her current studies also include Russell Delman’s Embodied Life ™ (fusing meditation, Feldenkrais ™ Awareness Through Movement and Embodied Dialogue/Focusing), Qi Gong and Aikido. She co-founded DanceAbility, Breitenbush Jam, Diverse Dance Research Retreat and the performance group Image Lab. She often travels, both teaching and performing, and lives on Vashon Island in Puget Sound, Washington.
Friday, January 29, 2010
Feldenkrais and More in February
Dance Art Group / Movement Arts Research
Thursdays 6:30-8:30pm
Velocity Dance Center, Studio 3, 915 E Pine St, 3rd floor
$15/class; series discounts; drop-ins and all experience levels welcome
Info at http://www.danceartgroup.org/velocity-series.html
DAG/MAR features weekly classes in improvisation, performance, creative process and composition, contact improvisation, somatic education, New Dance techniques and other dance realms, with a different local teacher/topic each month.
February 4-25: LILA HURWITZ / FELDENKRAIS & FRIENDS
The Feldenkrais Method is a subtle and powerful system of neuromuscular re-education that evokes changes in muscular tone, flexibility, coordination, attention, and the comfort and efficiency of movement. We'll explore some classic Feldenkrais lessons, do some anatomy review to remind ourselves of the brilliant ways our bodies are designed to move, and delve into issues common to dancers. And we'll play with integrating those awarenesses while dabbling in an array of fabulous improvisational and perceptual practices including Authentic Movement, Contemplative Dance Practice, and the Tuning Score.
Lila is a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner who has been teaching since 1987, including one of Seattle's longest-running weekly Feldenkrais classes since 1995. She likes to think she introduced Portland, OR, to Authentic Movement in the late 1980s, and learned from and has performed the Tuning Score with Karen Nelson and originator Lisa Nelson. She learned Contemplative Dance Practice from creator Barbara Dilley while on an ACDFA scholarship at Naropa University in 1987. She's performed with Karen Nelson, Lisa Nelson, Stephanie Skura, Bebe Miller, Ann Carlson, Crispin Spaeth, Nina Martin, Mary Oslund, Linda K. Johnson and many others.
Coming in March: Vanessa DeWolf
Coming in April: Nala Walla
Thursdays 6:30-8:30pm
Velocity Dance Center, Studio 3, 915 E Pine St, 3rd floor
$15/class; series discounts; drop-ins and all experience levels welcome
Info at http://www.danceartgroup.org/velocity-series.html
DAG/MAR features weekly classes in improvisation, performance, creative process and composition, contact improvisation, somatic education, New Dance techniques and other dance realms, with a different local teacher/topic each month.
February 4-25: LILA HURWITZ / FELDENKRAIS & FRIENDS
The Feldenkrais Method is a subtle and powerful system of neuromuscular re-education that evokes changes in muscular tone, flexibility, coordination, attention, and the comfort and efficiency of movement. We'll explore some classic Feldenkrais lessons, do some anatomy review to remind ourselves of the brilliant ways our bodies are designed to move, and delve into issues common to dancers. And we'll play with integrating those awarenesses while dabbling in an array of fabulous improvisational and perceptual practices including Authentic Movement, Contemplative Dance Practice, and the Tuning Score.
Lila is a Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner who has been teaching since 1987, including one of Seattle's longest-running weekly Feldenkrais classes since 1995. She likes to think she introduced Portland, OR, to Authentic Movement in the late 1980s, and learned from and has performed the Tuning Score with Karen Nelson and originator Lisa Nelson. She learned Contemplative Dance Practice from creator Barbara Dilley while on an ACDFA scholarship at Naropa University in 1987. She's performed with Karen Nelson, Lisa Nelson, Stephanie Skura, Bebe Miller, Ann Carlson, Crispin Spaeth, Nina Martin, Mary Oslund, Linda K. Johnson and many others.
Coming in March: Vanessa DeWolf
Coming in April: Nala Walla
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Seattle Dance Workshop with Bebe Miller
December 7-11, 2009
Workshop with "Bessie" Awardee and Guggenheim Fellow Bebe Miller
FINDING PHYSICALITY: TECHNIQUE & CREATIVE PRACTICE
For advanced dance makers.
Monday-Friday :: 10am-1pm
Information: Dance Art Group
Workshop with "Bessie" Awardee and Guggenheim Fellow Bebe Miller
FINDING PHYSICALITY: TECHNIQUE & CREATIVE PRACTICE
For advanced dance makers.
Monday-Friday :: 10am-1pm
Information: Dance Art Group
Thursday, July 9, 2009
Seattle Festival of Dance Improvisation
2009 Seattle Festival of Dance Improvisation
16th annual SFDI! August 2-9, 2009
CLASSES . PERFORMANCES . JAMS . DISCUSSIONS
5-Class Intensives: Benoit Lachambre . Daniel Lepkoff . Nita Little
4-Class Somatic Intensive: Susan Schell
Plus classes with Delia Brett . Maureen Freehill . Margit Galanter . Alicia Grayson . Cyrus Khambatta . Aiko Kinoshita . Tonya Lockyer . Jack Magai . Karen Schaffman . Stephanie Skura . Gretchen Spiro . Brad Stoller . Alia Swersky
Information at Dance Art Group
16th annual SFDI! August 2-9, 2009
CLASSES . PERFORMANCES . JAMS . DISCUSSIONS
5-Class Intensives: Benoit Lachambre . Daniel Lepkoff . Nita Little
4-Class Somatic Intensive: Susan Schell
Plus classes with Delia Brett . Maureen Freehill . Margit Galanter . Alicia Grayson . Cyrus Khambatta . Aiko Kinoshita . Tonya Lockyer . Jack Magai . Karen Schaffman . Stephanie Skura . Gretchen Spiro . Brad Stoller . Alia Swersky
Information at Dance Art Group
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