We start class by getting down and dirty with our bad selves. Improvisational work based on spinal awareness, tailbone initiation, plane possibility, and release technique spiral us across the floor. Then we hit the center adagio to weave smoothly between Yoga/Alexander technique, and into moving inversions to fire up the core, lubricate the joints, and stretch major and minor muscles groups. By transferring from twisting asanas into released joint articulation we will strengthen our ideas of balance and falling. Shifting from our feet to our hands and all the surface area in between we will explore gravity as a tool in moving swifter and more efficiently while widening our perspective on our own movement potential. Then through complex, athletic phrase work we will create movement that is simultaneously functional in capacity and dynamic in expression. Each class ends with an improvisation that utilizes that day’s work to expand on our skill in creating without pre-conceived thought – the key to visceral, enlightening experiences in improvisation. We will then flashback this process to retain the spontaneous movement into muscle and mind memory heightening our knowledge on how to compose structured improvisation and dance. Contact Kevin for more info: 310.430.5384 kevin@kdubdance.org www.kdubdance.org
Kevin Williamson, professional dancer and choreographer, began training and performing commercially at the age of ten. He went on to UCLA to complete a BA in World Arts and Cultures. Since he has performed for David Gordon, Julie Taymor, Angelin Preljocaj, Sebastian Prantl, Ryan Heffington, Stephan Koplowitz, Maria Gillespie, and Kate Hutter in New York City, Vienna, and Los Angeles. Kevin is a founding company member of LACDC, and member of Oni Dance, site-specific touring ensemble TaskForceProject, and performs for the LA Opera. He has been nominated for several Lester Horton Awards for performance excellence, and in 2007, the LA Times named him “a major artist” for his performance at the Ford Amphitheatre in Unearthing Sleeping Beasts. As a choreographer, Kevin has created works for the LA Contemporary Dance Co., Los Angeles Movement Arts, Fringe Festival Scotland, Highways Festival of Student work, Freud Theatre, and Miami's Winter Music Conference. In October of 2009 Highways presents the debut concert of his dance theatre company KDUB DANCE. Kevin is currently the director of dance at Chadwick School in Palos Verdes, and recently completed a Dance Educator’s Fellowship awarded to him by Bates Dance Festival.
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