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(p) 323.226.1158 (f) 323.226.9430Ignite.Studio for Social Sculpturehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08282683514677910447noreply@blogger.comBlogger35125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2701543962197890311.post-6812555950891409612010-05-14T23:31:00.000-07:002010-05-17T19:04:32.193-07:00For the Corn and Flowers, Dance and Percussion<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpN0DQWyDBaCBy7o62KhPBA7nldUxmjIHbDRbqPMCmsrDfx_Jc1YrByJEm312Pi7Ik8k7i2_185O5aGb9tGFyV9LaWRi5MyzIPOswhRCn6A8dKgR_-Rr4Wz7KatyOdGer50JRSnsHuINY/s1600/Picture+6.png" style="text-decoration: none;"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 230px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpN0DQWyDBaCBy7o62KhPBA7nldUxmjIHbDRbqPMCmsrDfx_Jc1YrByJEm312Pi7Ik8k7i2_185O5aGb9tGFyV9LaWRi5MyzIPOswhRCn6A8dKgR_-Rr4Wz7KatyOdGer50JRSnsHuINY/s320/Picture+6.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5471381475174273682" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;font-size:11px;"><div class="event_profile_information" style="padding-top: 5px; padding-right: 8px; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-left: 8px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">For the Corn and Flowers</span></b></span></div><div class="event_profile_information" style="padding-top: 5px; padding-right: 8px; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-left: 8px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Sunday, May 16, 2010 6:00pm - 8:00pm </span></b></span></div><div class="event_profile_information" style="padding-top: 5px; padding-right: 8px; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-left: 8px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The Anabolic Monument, California State Park</span></b></span></div><div class="event_profile_information" style="padding-top: 5px; padding-right: 8px; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-left: 8px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Tatsuya Nakatani Percussion</span></b></span></div><div class="event_profile_information" style="padding-top: 5px; padding-right: 8px; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-left: 8px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Oguri Dance</span></b></span></div><div class="event_profile_information" style="padding-top: 5px; padding-right: 8px; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-left: 8px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Roxanne Steinberg Dance</span></b></span></div><div class="event_profile_information" style="padding-top: 5px; padding-right: 8px; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-left: 8px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Admission free</span></b></span></div><div class="event_profile_information" style="padding-top: 5px; padding-right: 8px; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-left: 8px; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; white-space: pre-wrap; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><b>The Anabolic Monument</b> is an artwork by Lauren Bon, tended to by the Metabolic Studio in collaboration with the State Park of California in Los Angeles. It is made of the remains of Notacornfield, the Metabolic Sculpture, 2005-2006, that transformed the 32-acre brownfield at the historic center of dowtown Los Angeles into a green field for one agricultural cycle. It is currently in the fifth year of being tended to by the Metabolic Studio. The corn in the Anabolic is being grown for the final season of the Metabolic Studio's stewardship of the Anabolic Monument. </span></span></span></b></div><div class="event_profile_information" style="padding-top: 5px; padding-right: 8px; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-left: 8px; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; white-space: pre-wrap; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><b>Tatsuya Nakatani</b> (percussion) is originally from Osaka, Japan. He has performed in 80 cities in 7 countries and collaborated with 163 artists worldwide. In the past 10 years he has released nearly 50 recordings on CD.He has created his own instrumentation, effectively inventing many instruments and extended techniques. He utilizes drumset, bowed gongs, cymbals, singing bowls, metal objects, bells, and various sticks and bows to create an intense, organic music that defies category or genre. His music is based in improvised/ experimental music, jazz, free jazz, rock, and noise, yet retains the sense of space and beauty found in traditional Japanese folk music. </span></span></span></b></div><div class="event_profile_information" style="padding-top: 5px; padding-right: 8px; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-left: 8px; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; white-space: pre-wrap; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><b>Roxanne Steinberg</b>’s choreography and dance has been seen worldwide with composers and musicians Yas Kaz, Paul Chavez, Kenta Nagai, Tatsuya Nakatani, Leon Mobley, Myra Melford & Alex Cline and dancers Min Tanaka and Amagatsu of Sankai Juku. A founder of Body Weather Laboratory in L.A. (1987), she has performed with Oguri since 1990 and was presented in Flower of the Season, a performance series she now co-directs. She has choreographed for Body Vox in Portland, and artist Lauren Bon’s Notacornfield, the Metabolic Scultpure, 2005-2006, that transformed the 32-acre brownfield at the historic center of dowtown LA into a green field for one agricutlural cycle. Working at the Metabolic Studio and on Strawberry Flag in Los Angeles, dance is her language to coordinate space and community. Grants: Annenberg Foundation, Department of Cultural Affairs Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Arts Commission, Durfee Foundation, artist-in-residence Electric Lodge, Venice. </span></span></span></b></div><div class="event_profile_information" style="padding-top: 5px; padding-right: 8px; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-left: 8px; "><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: normal; white-space: pre-wrap; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><b>Oguri</b>, an internationally acclaimed dancer/choreographer and a resident of Southern California since 1990, conducts Body Weather Laboratory a forum for investigating the body and dance (founded by Min Tanaka in Japan, 1978). In Japan, he studied fine art with Genpei Akasegawa and dance with Tatsumi Hijikata before working extensively with Min Tanaka farming, performing and presenting solo work in Tokyo. Since moving to the USA, he has taught and performed worldwide. The 2005 documentary film Height of Sky by director Morleigh Steinberg follows his 4-year project, an exploration of the California deserts in search of a dance between the human body and the borderline. He is an artist-in-residence at the Electric Lodge in Venice, California. Oguri has received support from the California Arts Council, the New England Foundation for the Arts National Dance Project, the Rockefeller Foundation, the City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department, The Lila Wallace Reader's Digest Arts Partners Program, The Getty Center, the Irvine Fellowship in Dance, the 2005 Irvine Dance: Creation to Performance grant. He serves on the Chora Council of the Metabolic Studio. The Metabolic Studio is comprised of Chora and Farmlab. </span></span></span></b></div><div class="event_profile_information" style="padding-top: 5px; padding-right: 8px; padding-bottom: 8px; padding-left: 8px; "><table id="Time and Place" class="profileTable info_table" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><tbody><tr><td class="data" style=" text-align: left; vertical-align: top; line-height: 13px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 1px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1px; padding-left: 0px; font-size:11px;"><div class="datawrap" style="word-wrap: break-word; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></span>Ignite.Studio for Social Sculpturehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08282683514677910447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2701543962197890311.post-46524277270233180962009-11-17T21:59:00.000-08:002009-11-17T22:04:27.693-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX_-D0cG9WTjifoio2HnwnDWe1JMSB0l8qYaQlH4WGT6vyvqr2gDFeJ60c5XJRlSqVlzta0vwl31OBpX5tsiPvvZgwI5SGnN-th5wI8oi9LQXUiFEa1yNzPMmLaByMssVMCmvRcv3uYN4/s1600/Picture+8.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 210px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjX_-D0cG9WTjifoio2HnwnDWe1JMSB0l8qYaQlH4WGT6vyvqr2gDFeJ60c5XJRlSqVlzta0vwl31OBpX5tsiPvvZgwI5SGnN-th5wI8oi9LQXUiFEa1yNzPMmLaByMssVMCmvRcv3uYN4/s320/Picture+8.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5405319739137100690" /></a><b><br /></b><!--StartFragment--><span><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b>December 5, 12, 11-1pm: Sheetal Gandhi<br /></b></span></span></span></span></span></span><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"></span></span></span><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Sheetal is interested in movement that is gestural, expressive and musically complex. She draws on her inspirations including kathak dance, vocal percussion, popping and waving, modern dance, classic jazz, Michael Jackson, West African dance, Pilates, Yoga and Bharatanatyam mudras. This two-part course will use the complex, precise rhythms of the North Indian classical dance form Kathak, as a springboard into exploring the musician-dancer body. Choreographically, we will explore the possibilities within the drum and dance language, using our voices and dance to create highly specific movement sequences and soundscapes. All levels and techniques welcome. The class should warm you up, cool you down, and keep you groovin’ in between!<br /></span></span></span></span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span></span><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Sheetal Gandhi</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> is interested in creating a space that brings the many sides of her personality together: dramatic, wry, Indian, American, dancer, percussionist, abstract, chameleon, precise, impulsive, singer and storyteller. She draws on her strengths and professional successes from the subway platform to the Broadway stage to create work that blurs cultural and disciplinary boundaries, promoting intercultural understanding through artistic excellence. In 1993, Sheetal’s passion for rhythm led her to Ghana, West Africa where she spent a year studying and performing the traditional music and dances of the region. Sheetal grew up folk dancing within her own culture and in 1995 moved to India for six months to further study the North Indian classical dance form </span></span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Kathak</span></span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">. As a percussionist, she plays the calabash, or dried gourd, and the West African xylophone. Sheetal worked as a creator and performer in Cirque du Soleil’s</span></span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Dralion</span></span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, and toured with the international cast from 1999-2001. Her New York credits include: leading role in the Broadway production of </span></span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Bombay Dreams, </span></span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Stephen Schwartz’s </span></span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Children of Eden</span></span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> at the Paper Mill Playhouse, and the revival of </span></span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Hair</span></span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">. Gandhi was Co-Artistic Director of the modern dance company California Contemporary Dancers in San Francisco from 2001-2004 and holds an MFA in Dance/Choreography from UCLA’s Dept. of World Arts and Cultures. Most recently she has been touring her multi-disciplinary one-woman show, </span></span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Bahu-Beti-Biwi (Daughter-in-law, Daughter, Wife)</span></span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, with recent performances in Los Angeles at the REDCAT NOW Festival and in New York with the National Asian American Theater Festival. For more info. visit </span></span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">www.sheetalgandhi.com</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#3333FF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span><span><span><u><a href="http://www.sheetalgandhi.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#3333FF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">http://www.sheetalgandhi.com/</span></span></span></a></u></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#3333FF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">> </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size:10pt;"> </span></span></span> <!--EndFragment-->Ignite.Studio for Social Sculpturehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08282683514677910447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2701543962197890311.post-2586066013911445972009-11-02T13:40:00.000-08:002009-11-02T13:47:53.928-08:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMYil0v0yHYhOg4Ppx6YDat-eADNUkQBOCTgsD5J3PMRANq9UQMeH_5IIAbqom0Tb_pCbljnEDCKVWcU7R4FKMk7S_BvyLbgmuTp9HolryE306VAa4l6q_sf00V0Qx98IiP6tJ3diPtWM/s1600-h/Picture+2.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 194px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMYil0v0yHYhOg4Ppx6YDat-eADNUkQBOCTgsD5J3PMRANq9UQMeH_5IIAbqom0Tb_pCbljnEDCKVWcU7R4FKMk7S_BvyLbgmuTp9HolryE306VAa4l6q_sf00V0Qx98IiP6tJ3diPtWM/s320/Picture+2.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5399624755071150066" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span><!--StartFragment--><span><span><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><b>November 7, 14, 21, 11AM - 1PM Neil Greenberg<br /></b></span></span></span></span></span></span><span><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Each class/workshop will draw from three possible arenas:<br /></span></span></span></span></span></span><span><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">* </span></span></span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Working with information from some of the somatic approaches I’ve studied, considering body systems in addition to, and in conjunction with, the prevalent skeletal/muscular model. Could be called a bodywork approach to movement training. Warming up will be one goal, here. Call this the “technique” focus.<br /></span></span></span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">* </span></span></span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Directed improvisation, using some of the ideas from my recent “Really Queer Dance With Harps” as a springboard, and also working with ideas from my current project: I’ve been questioning the notion that speech metaphors—for example, “what is this dance saying?”—can accurately describe dance experiences. I’m instead interested in exploring the “isness” of the performance moment.<br /></span></span></span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">* </span></span></span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Working with set material drawn from my choreography, learning and playing with “phrase-work.” Sort of a mini repertory focus. (This probably a lower priority for me at present.)<br />I still feel quite new to L.A., and hope to continue making work here. I see these workshops as an opportunity to continue to meet and get to know artists from the L.A. dance community, and to bring to the table some of the ideas with which I’ve been working.<br />Feel free to email me with any questions: </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span><span><span><span><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/neilg@ucr.edu">neilg@ucr.edu</a></span></span></span></u></span></span></span></span><div><span><span><span><span><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><a href="http://www.blogger.com/neilg@ucr.edu"></a></span></span></span></u></span></span></span></span><span><span><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span>Neil Greenberg moved to L.A. from N.Y.C. in fall 2007 to join the dance faculty of UC Riverside. He has been making dances since 1979, and is known especially for his 1994 work, </span></span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Not-About-AIDS-Dance,</span></span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"> which employs his signature use of projected supertitles as an alternative text to the onstage dance action, and a door into the “meanings” of viewing dance. His work also reflects the influence of innovative somatic approaches to movement, such as Klein Technique, which he’s studied extensively with Barbara Mahler and Susan Klein, and Body-Mind Centering, which he’s studied with RoseAnne Spradlin. His most recent work, </span></span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Really Queer Dance With Harps, </span></span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">continues his investigation into the nature of meaning-making. </span></span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">RQDWH </span></span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">premiered at Dance Theater Workshop in NY in June 2008, and was presented at REDCAT in LA in April 2009. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, NEA NYFA & the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, two “Bessies,” a Time Out Audience Award, and grants from the National Dance Project, the Rockefeller Multi-Arts Production Fund and NYSCA. He has created two commissions for Mikhail Baryshnikov's </span></span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">White Oak Dance Project. </span></span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">A former dancer with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company (1979-1986), he has been on the dance faculty of Purchase College and Sarah Lawrence College, and served as dance curator at The Kitchen from 1995-1999. For more information: </span></span></span></span></span></span><span><span><span><u><a href="http://www.neilgreenberg.org/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">http://www.neilgreenberg.org/</span></span></span></a></u></span></span></span></span><!--EndFragment--></div>Ignite.Studio for Social Sculpturehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08282683514677910447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2701543962197890311.post-48109713105268030062009-10-23T16:55:00.001-07:002009-10-23T17:00:34.009-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE2C22AoGUcR95ylDIXdd_75KH1pHSPKX7-m1UF7YMtxxcqBltrBtOjW8W4zM0ZQBvDQCnDnetSn3cGjKfVEmJDAX_8r14kxrlce8Ro0yFq1znChUdU1zZivX1A_elJbW2TDtrtB_Tm1A/s1600-h/Picture+47.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 282px; height: 149px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE2C22AoGUcR95ylDIXdd_75KH1pHSPKX7-m1UF7YMtxxcqBltrBtOjW8W4zM0ZQBvDQCnDnetSn3cGjKfVEmJDAX_8r14kxrlce8Ro0yFq1znChUdU1zZivX1A_elJbW2TDtrtB_Tm1A/s320/Picture+47.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395948379891824146" /></a><br /><!--StartFragment--><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span style="font-size:14.5pt;"><b>October 31st, 11am-1pm Hana van der Kolk<br /></b><br /></span></span></span><span style="font-family:Arial;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-size:10pt;"><b>This is Dancing...<br /></b>is a contemporary dance technique class open to all levels of dance experience. Class begins with a slow warm up drawing from yoga, mindfulness meditation, the Alexander Technique, Body Mind Centering, and various dance traditions. With a focus on cultivating kinesthetic awareness and heightening mental presence we then move between guided improvisations and simple and repetative set material that draws from jazz, Hip Hop, modern dance, and West African movement vocabularies. Class might finish with a simple movement phrase set to music (think Cyndi Lauper, Janet Jackson, Animal Collective, Justin Timberlake, NIna Simone) and/or scores for practicing improvised choreography. From start to finish we will move, sweat, play, and dance together in a collective space of exploration and positivity. This is Dancing draws inspiration from the work of Deborah Hay, Simone Forti, d. Sabela Grimes, Germaine Acogny, Merce Cunningham, and many others.<br /><br /><b>Hana van der Kolk</b> is a choreographer based in Los Angeles. Her projects combine elements of conceptual practice with the techniques of postmodern theater and choreography and take place in a wide range of sites, including the stage, studios and galleries, in writing, on film, and in outdoor, public spaces. She is highly influenced by choreographer Deborah Hay whose solos she has been learning and adapting since 2000. The adaptations as well as Hana's own work have been presented throughout the U.S. and Europe. Hana has collaborated with Carolina San Juan, Layard Thompson, Jesse Johnson, Robby Herbst, My Barbarian, Jesse Aron Green and many others. As a performer she has appeared in the work of Taisha Paggett, Rebecca Pappas, Cid Pearlman, Dan Froot/Dan Hurlin and others. Hana has taught dance and yoga in public parks, private back yards, studios, retreat centers, universities, and high schools throughout the country, and is a regular guest teacher at the School for New Dance Development, Amsterdam. In 2008 Hana founded Genesis Project, Los Angeles, a forum for dialogue about interdisciplinary, body-based artistic practice and a month-long, process-based artists’ residency. For more please visit www.genesisprojectla.org <<span style="color:#0000FF;"><u><a href="http://www.genesisprojectla.org/">http://www.genesisprojectla.org/</a></u></span>> and www.hanavanderkolk.com <<span style="color:#0000FF;"><u><a href="http://www.hanavanderkolk.com/">http://www.hanavanderkolk.com/</a></u></span>> .</span></span></span> <!--EndFragment-->Ignite.Studio for Social Sculpturehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08282683514677910447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2701543962197890311.post-31350972332286750902009-10-07T12:43:00.000-07:002009-10-07T12:45:06.963-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjr8Amby72HoZlCO01nxahpI_pd-BRk8hNTAz1pf7diOeZbp26-Sv3nJLlT76hwV0DSK7UAtR0SIcOKaQTJwrA0883dJMcgL6NbadDh0uW5bzGvoGeYWxrKDBEc90Zq-4tgFfeheGpgvCI/s1600-h/Picture+45.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 202px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjr8Amby72HoZlCO01nxahpI_pd-BRk8hNTAz1pf7diOeZbp26-Sv3nJLlT76hwV0DSK7UAtR0SIcOKaQTJwrA0883dJMcgL6NbadDh0uW5bzGvoGeYWxrKDBEc90Zq-4tgFfeheGpgvCI/s320/Picture+45.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389946411549207298" /></a><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" border-collapse: collapse; font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; "><span style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;"><span style=" ;font-size:large;">Oct. 17, 24: Kevin Williamson</span></span></span></div><div><span style="white-space: pre-wrap; "><span style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;"><span style=" ;font-size:large;"><span style=" ;font-size:13px;"><i>Int./Adv. Contemporary Techniques & Creative Composition Class</i></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:verdana, sans-serif;"><span style=" white-space: pre-wrap; font-size:large;"><p><span style=" ;font-size:10pt;">We start class by getting down and dirty with our bad selves.<span> </span>Improvisational work based on spinal awareness, tailbone initiation, plane possibility, and release technique spiral us across the floor.<span> </span>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.<span> </span>By transferring from twisting asanas into released joint articulation we will strengthen our ideas of balance and falling.<span> </span>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.<span> </span>Then through complex, athletic phrase work we will create movement that is simultaneously functional in capacity and dynamic in expression.<span> </span>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.<span> </span>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 <a href="mailto:kevin@kdubdance.org" target="_blank">kevin@kdubdance.org</a> <a href="http://www.kdubdance.org/" target="_blank">www.kdubdance.org</a></span></p> <p><span style=" ;font-size:10pt;"><b>Kevin Williamson</b></span><span style=" ;font-size:10pt;">, professional dancer and choreographer, began training and performing commercially at the age of ten.<span> </span>He went on to UCLA to complete a BA in World Arts and Cultures.<span> </span>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 <i>Unearthing Sleeping Beasts</i>.<span> </span>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.</span></p> </span></span></div></span>Ignite.Studio for Social Sculpturehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08282683514677910447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2701543962197890311.post-8519709940587499852009-09-19T08:46:00.000-07:002009-09-24T22:29:19.238-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO1rG3CnMIoL_lifqQTf158ZIoU2GlyBUVEUFUQyEwbSoW6lwp0KiFHKlpiq81z8NQRbY8qWsgIW-QtwdXhkjNZGG2L1czoyFl0ZJWF6XNn5H9dAiTpfUel8J8MDdW0B98iadfn6ydZDM/s1600-h/Picture+39.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 262px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhO1rG3CnMIoL_lifqQTf158ZIoU2GlyBUVEUFUQyEwbSoW6lwp0KiFHKlpiq81z8NQRbY8qWsgIW-QtwdXhkjNZGG2L1czoyFl0ZJWF6XNn5H9dAiTpfUel8J8MDdW0B98iadfn6ydZDM/s320/Picture+39.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5383206333179472610" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, serif; font-weight: bold; ">September 26, October 3, 10</span><br /></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial, serif;"><b>Saturdays, 11 - 1</b></span></div><div><span><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Roxanne Steinberg</span></b></span></span></span></span><div><span style="font-size:130%;"><span><span style="font-size:14.5pt;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Introduction to Body Weather Laboratory</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></span></i></span></span></span><span><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Body Weather Laboratory is a research forum open to anyone interested in investigating the body within different environments. Just like the weather, our bodies are constantly changing and our relationship to the environment is in a state of interactive flux. Through a thorough reexamination of the body and movement, the training supports work in various practices and disciplines by developing presence and deeper connectivity to the world around us. It consists of: M.B. - Rigorous mind/body, muscle/bone training, Rhythmical and dynamic, it develops coordination and endurance. Manipulations - A series of specific stretching and relaxation exercises concerned with breathing and alignment. The work is done in couples, exchanging passive and active roles. Laboratory Explorations - designed to sharpen focus and extend the scope of awareness through the body. The work encompasses sensitivity training, discovery of movement from images and working with partners to deepen investigation and develop understanding. Roxanne Steinberg discovered Body Weather Laboratory at Bennington College while training in dance and improvisation and went on to study in Paris, New York and Japan. She began teaching Body Weather in L.A. in 1988 and has worked and performed with Oguri since 1990. Roxanne’s choreography and dance has been presented worldwide with composers and musicians Yas Kaz, Paul Chavez, Kenta Nagai, Tatsuya Nakatani, Leon Mobley, Myra Melford & Alex Cline and dancers Min Tanaka and Amagatsu of Sankai Juku. She was presented in Flower of the Season, a performance series and mentorship program she now co-directs at the Electric Lodge in Venice. She received a Durfee Arts grant, 2006 for her piece at Dance Conversations at the Flea in New York where she has presented her work each year since. Her performance with Oguri in a major production,</span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> Caddy! Caddy! Caddy!</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> William Faulkner Dance Project premiered at the REDCAT and will be performed at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, November 2009. Working at the Metabolic Studio in Los Angeles, dance is her language to coordinate space and community. She is an artist-in-residence at the Electric Lodge in Venice where she continues to teach Body Weather Laboratory. </span></span></span></span></span> <!--EndFragment--></div></div>Ignite.Studio for Social Sculpturehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08282683514677910447noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2701543962197890311.post-23098916026963097502009-09-05T10:39:00.000-07:002009-09-05T11:54:49.080-07:00<div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxvSIH7m-RoKRLAC1p1ZT1fb_BXtUcf1lR95lTJdwIDl14mdfnX9CMi-B6PJihDpuyavTnha958dgvTpz5pzNwpBNY0BETtNOismQLYAo07dIFInx43ReBREUUp_tSJk2_L_FOjeNN8pE/s1600-h/Picture+35.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 237px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxvSIH7m-RoKRLAC1p1ZT1fb_BXtUcf1lR95lTJdwIDl14mdfnX9CMi-B6PJihDpuyavTnha958dgvTpz5pzNwpBNY0BETtNOismQLYAo07dIFInx43ReBREUUp_tSJk2_L_FOjeNN8pE/s320/Picture+35.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5378057772582773138" /></a><br /><!--StartFragment--><span><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">DANCEbank fall/winter series</span></span></span></span></span><div><span><span><span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">September 5, 12, 19: Cheng-Chieh Yu<br /></span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Motion in Stillness; Stillness in Motion<br /></span></span></i></b></span></span></span><span><b><i><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></span></span></i><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">This class will explore a Tai-Chi/BaGuaZhang influenced post-modern dance technique. The class will start with a series of Tai-Chi/BaGuaZhang derived movement exercises focusing at once on both centering, and opening up channels of energy. “When it moves, it divides; when it rests, it reunites.” Next we will work on weight shifting as the movement of complimentary opposites, Yin & Yang, exploring momentum from fall-and-response, to build phrasing. This process leads us to concentrate on developing choreographic efficiency in phrasing and rhythm.<br /></span></span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Cheng-Chieh Yu is a choreographer of dance theater works that explore Asian Diaspora issues, which challenge notions of an Asian and Asian-American profile, crisscrossing issues such as gender ascription, social-political perspectives, cultural hybridity. Yu’s bold kinetics and provocative imagery are built from a dynamic corporeal postmodern dance technique, fused with the martial arts of Tai Chi Chuan and Ba Gua Zhang. Cheng-Chieh began her performance career touring with the acclai med Cloud Gate Dance Theater of Taiwan. After relocating to New York City from 1989 to 2001, Cheng-Chieh toured internationally performing in the companies of The Solomons Co. Dance, Jose Limon Dance Co., Bebe Miller Dance Co. and as a gue st artist for the Ralph Lemon Dance Project. Her choreography has been produced by numerous venues in NYC and Los Angeles as well as internationally in China, Singapore, Israel, and Taiwan. Choreographic commissions include from the Chinese Information and Cultural Center, Movement Research, Danspace at St. Mark’s Church in NYC, the Beijing Modern Dance Company in China and Sun-Shier Dance Theatre of Taiwan. She is currently an Associate Professor of Performance/Choreography at UCLA.</span></span></span></span></span></b></span> <!--EndFragment--></div>Ignite.Studio for Social Sculpturehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08282683514677910447noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2701543962197890311.post-25521616400979611382009-07-15T22:11:00.000-07:002009-07-15T23:15:55.576-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSokTEH34NaG8J7OhgRAqCl21kiah1_ubPyKZo6fsDtVXRW6MjALRGlbDiS7q4G03tc1Ejey7XuSvKBfeOnIIq1v3bVZerxk8SFCHwgWe0Zr1mcfC43FOOlmgB0_LeL8fUNe9h7g8L18s/s1600-h/IMG_1450.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSokTEH34NaG8J7OhgRAqCl21kiah1_ubPyKZo6fsDtVXRW6MjALRGlbDiS7q4G03tc1Ejey7XuSvKBfeOnIIq1v3bVZerxk8SFCHwgWe0Zr1mcfC43FOOlmgB0_LeL8fUNe9h7g8L18s/s320/IMG_1450.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5358931536124910146" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Verdana"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">COMING IN AUGUST!</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Verdana; min-height: 19.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">DANCEbank Summer Workshops</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Verdana"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Saturday & Sunday, 11am-1:30pm</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Verdana"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">$15 single class/$25 both days</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Verdana; min-height: 19.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Verdana"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">August 1 & 2 - Simone Forti</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Verdana"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">August 8 & 9 - Taisha Paggett</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Verdana"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">August 15 & 16 - Mira Kingsley</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Verdana"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">August 22 & 23 - Sabela Grimes</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Verdana"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">August 28 & 29 - Anna B. Scott</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Verdana; min-height: 19.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Verdana"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">August 1 & 2 - Simone Forti </span></span></b></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Verdana"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">A Weave of Moving, Speaking & Writing</span></span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Verdana; min-height: 19.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">We respond to our environment, both immediate, and broad and complex. Our bodies change tone, experience and act on kinesthetic impulses, while our minds wander and focus. The structures of body, of language, of feeling, interact. That’s what we will explore.</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Verdana; min-height: 19.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Verdana"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Simone Forti is a dancer and writer in her seventies, enjoying maturity while urgently exploring new strategies. </span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Verdana; min-height: 19.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Verdana; min-height: 19.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">August 8 & 9 - Taisha Paggett, Everything bodies</span></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Verdana; min-height: 19.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">This movement class will begin with floor and standing exercises based on connecting breath with movement, joint articulation, and tapping into both internal and external focus and awareness. Phrase work will be pulled from a current choreography project “everything,” which plays with the task of physicalizing multiple sensations in a single moment.</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Verdana; min-height: 19.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">We approach movement with an inquiring, non-judgmental mind, with the goal of finding new sensations of awareness in our individual physicality.</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Verdana; min-height: 19.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Verdana"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Taisha Paggett is a Los Angeles based dance artist and co-founder of the dance journal project, itch. Her work and collaborations for the stage, gallery, and public sphere have been presented and supported by several venues throughout California as well as in Chicago, New York City and Utrecht, The Netherlands. She has worked extensively in the projects of Victoria Marks and David Rousseve, and is a member of the audio action collective, Ultra-Red. She holds an MFA from UCLA’s Department of World Arts and Cultures.</span></span></p>Ignite.Studio for Social Sculpturehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08282683514677910447noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2701543962197890311.post-78435443287783930832009-07-11T22:47:00.000-07:002009-07-11T22:53:33.071-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf9WRAjOIQGtfeMikQMYxJ0mQlP2mzSNzDkqG670PWY5gn9eP12bRD36T1_7f8rdYT5rNvT5LK7KYeyCN4TZbJK62IhUlz4G9KREtMw-33OswkMGy51swH-BEWfLlWo8zwbNKkxMptx_0/s1600-h/Picture+20.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 226px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf9WRAjOIQGtfeMikQMYxJ0mQlP2mzSNzDkqG670PWY5gn9eP12bRD36T1_7f8rdYT5rNvT5LK7KYeyCN4TZbJK62IhUlz4G9KREtMw-33OswkMGy51swH-BEWfLlWo8zwbNKkxMptx_0/s320/Picture+20.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5357447298940758690" /></a><br /><!--StartFragment--><span style="font-family:Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial;"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><br /></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-size:14.5pt;"><b>DANCEbank presents</b> </span></span><b><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-size:14.5pt;">guest artist, Ralf Jaroschinski<br />Saturday & Sunday, July 11 & 12th, </span></span></b><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-size:14.5pt;"> 11am-2pm<br />$17 single class, $30 both days.<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:180%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: normal;font-size:18px;"><br /></span></span></b></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;"><br />Ralf Jaroschinski was born in Southern Germany and grew up in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He received classical and modern dance training in Germany and then studied contemporary dance techniques in New York City. That’s where he discovered contact improvisation (CI) about fourteen years ago – mainly in Daniel Lepkoff’s and Alito Alessi’s classes among others. He currently works as a dance teacher and choreographer mainly in Europe and the Americas. He enjoys using CI in his creations and teaching it since about eight years.<br /><br />In the beginning of the class, we’ll focus on our center and awareness: We will look for the true internal source and the authentic external expression of our own dance. We will then investigate attentively the texture of our connection with our partner(s) through listening to their and again our actions and reactions in the ongoing dance. During this, we will be able to fully enjoy participating in the dance, because our and our partners' contributions to it will be generous and full-hearted, since they are at all times nurtured from within and therefore inexhaustible. And so, finally, we will feel union and satisfaction while dancing with our partner(s), because we’ll not only be experiencing the freedom of space and the excitement of momentum in the dynamic dance, but also the heightened support we get from dancing in communication with our center and other persons’ centers as well.<br /><br />For more information please visit:<br />www.ralfjaroschinski.de <<span style="color:#0000FF;"><u><a href="http://www.ralfjaroschinski.de/">http://www.ralfjaroschinski.de</a></u></span>> </span></span> <!--EndFragment-->Ignite.Studio for Social Sculpturehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08282683514677910447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2701543962197890311.post-83877288906554765592009-07-11T22:32:00.000-07:002009-07-11T22:46:46.142-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmIrUxqPNs0hPg1VUnIu5G-Tu0dfLkiXH30RH25W1hhChzWi0csUw8mHDMGy9JX6E7JgqLtK5rnqieCsf-wKF9jqNBeuqSW8_zCAaSDQpZh7tBO9ELZjOM1r7lpgxUuXdtaKhE2CMCJUA/s1600-h/arianne+hoffman.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 207px; height: 138px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmIrUxqPNs0hPg1VUnIu5G-Tu0dfLkiXH30RH25W1hhChzWi0csUw8mHDMGy9JX6E7JgqLtK5rnqieCsf-wKF9jqNBeuqSW8_zCAaSDQpZh7tBO9ELZjOM1r7lpgxUuXdtaKhE2CMCJUA/s320/arianne+hoffman.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5357443117218504818" /></a><br /><!--StartFragment--><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(102, 102, 102); line-height: 20px; font-family:'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(76, 76, 76); line-height: 20px; font-family:arial;"><div style="text-align: left; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><b><br /></b></span></div></span></span><blockquote><span style="font-family:Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial;"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 20px; "><span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span><span><span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">DANCEbank</span></span></b></span></span></span></span></span><span><span><span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> Summer session </span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; line-height: normal; font-family:Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Arianne Hoffmann</span></span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 20px; font-family:arial, Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; line-height: normal; font-family:Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 20px; font-family:arial, Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Saturdays 11am-1pm, </span></span></b></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">June 6, 13, 20, </span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 20px; font-family:arial, Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">$12</span></span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />The class will, after a loosening warm-up, move into structured improvisations. We will play with a various scores while conceiving of them as metaphors for socio-political issues. In that sense, we will be theorizing (in) space by the means of our bodies moving. But let’s not get too heady here. We will move in relationship to each other, and find out more about how we can structure improvising. This class is open to anyone willing to move and explore!<br /></span></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />Arianne Hoffmann</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#666666;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> is a German born choreographer, currently in her second year of the M.F.A. program at UCLA’s Department of World Arts and Cultures, where she has had the pleasure to study with Simone Forti, Susan Foster, and Victoria Marks. She creates scored improvisations that function as socio-political metaphors and are based on the physical body as a means and focus of expression.<br /><br />Her work has been shown around Los Angeles, most recently at Highways Performance Space, the Unknown Theater, and at Anatomy Riot. She has performed in and produced events with the performance art group Rent-a-friend and at TanzTangente in Berlin/Germany. As a performer, she recently worked with Rachael Lincoln, Krenly Guzman, and Kristen Smiarowski.<br /><br />She is the producer of AN EARFUL OF DANCE, a series of podcast conversations on dance, partially funded by the University of California Institute for Research in the Arts (UCIRA), and co-producer of Anatomy Riot. She has received the Forti Family Scholarship for Artistic Achievement twice.</span></span><br /></span></span></blockquote> <!--EndFragment-->Ignite.Studio for Social Sculpturehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08282683514677910447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2701543962197890311.post-22923057742268404672009-05-15T12:34:00.000-07:002009-05-15T12:43:17.893-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCZLQIUrCdjRAg-9YDhMvHC5MJSfXNk8vI670uRXTUmWvFor834V2IvcCfi6nCCAk-3O6oLYHvNUFypmM4CePa-gfKxBqFrbiWCRDlzD5Y4pGBETTU42Hp7a3_uSuzGDWZdKADb1aov7w/s1600-h/MSstandarmweb.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 208px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCZLQIUrCdjRAg-9YDhMvHC5MJSfXNk8vI670uRXTUmWvFor834V2IvcCfi6nCCAk-3O6oLYHvNUFypmM4CePa-gfKxBqFrbiWCRDlzD5Y4pGBETTU42Hp7a3_uSuzGDWZdKADb1aov7w/s320/MSstandarmweb.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5336136792463246018" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); "><span style=""><span style=""><span style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(76, 76, 76); line-height: 20px; font-family:arial;"><div style="text-align: left; "><span><span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">DANCEbank</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> Spring session - Michael Sakamoto</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 20px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Saturdays 11am-1pm, May 16, May 23, May 30 - $12</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); "><span style=""><span style=""><span style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Mind/Body/Time: A Workshop in Contemplative Movement and Character Development</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span><span style=""><span style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"></span></span></span><span style=""><span style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Utilizing pedagogical and participatory techniques rooted in Butoh, postmodern dance, and improvisational performance, this movement-based performance workshop addresses socialized habits and tendencies in our daily mental and behavioral patterns and modes of being. Participants are led through gestural and image-based exercises designed to decipher, interpret, and literally “break” thought, language, and action, empowering our mind/body instruments via semi-improvised structures that perform vulnerable, “dis-abled” versions of ourselves through a process of cyclical self-destruction and reintegration. <br /></span></span></span></span><span style=""><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Michael Sakamoto </span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">is an interdisciplinary dance, theater, and performance artist whose works have been performed in Thailand, Mexico, and thr</span></span></span></span><span style=""><span style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">oughout Europe and the USA. He is the recipient of numerous local and international awards and grants, including from the Japan Foundation, Arts International, Meet the Composer, California Community Foundation, Asian Cultural Council, and many others. His performances idiosyncratically blend intercultural themes, postmodern pastiche, and the visceral presence of butoh and physical theater in order to challenge audience expectations and reflect on the relationship of self with others and humanity with the world around us. His latest full-length work, "Vestiges of Creation," will premiere November 20-21, 2009 at UCLA World Arts and Cultures. For more info: <</span></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); "><u><a href="http://www.michaelsakamoto.com/" style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 102, 204); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">http://www.michaelsakamoto.com</span></span></a></u></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">> </span></span></span></span></span></div>Ignite.Studio for Social Sculpturehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08282683514677910447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2701543962197890311.post-34787142055818797762009-04-30T15:00:00.000-07:002009-04-30T15:09:02.243-07:00Old-Time Social<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfGViO1sCpMSg9aBYgrwX0qDCYIW8jVce0_rn0YCM16loK_WNyeHSgcNSopJKgUgHI_cs9HMHwx7OHn9eMEPbc1W7QFMiZewntW2hYAX9MPw7wrirFrSXiGIukE8FlbeIOIZIkAF9vArw/s1600-h/Picture+10.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfGViO1sCpMSg9aBYgrwX0qDCYIW8jVce0_rn0YCM16loK_WNyeHSgcNSopJKgUgHI_cs9HMHwx7OHn9eMEPbc1W7QFMiZewntW2hYAX9MPw7wrirFrSXiGIukE8FlbeIOIZIkAF9vArw/s320/Picture+10.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330609280273121394" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Metabolic Studio </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">hosts the entire day Saturday, May 17</span></span><span style="font: 7.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">th</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">. Starting at 2pm, workshops for fiddle, banjo, and square dance calling are followed by a square-dance featuring the live music of bands K. Boogie and the Brownbaggers (LA) and Pearson’s Pork Pies (Bay Area) with calling by Susan Michaels and Amy Hofer. The evening begins at 6:30 with a kids’ dance and a cakewalk with the big square dance commencing at 8pm. All </span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Saturday events at Farmlab and are free.</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Helvetica"><br /></p>Ignite.Studio for Social Sculpturehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08282683514677910447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2701543962197890311.post-64091126077278012042009-04-30T14:20:00.001-07:002009-04-30T14:20:50.511-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk4IDRWo0fa0tNNcflUeU-U60yNPf_vKXL28mHfQ6XqEWARNknOkq_Ie8xlBLiboh33R6hXo77KXBn4DP3Sbi-VW9W-zgRpammDhKliTwgOLmk3IfBJpJDBBK7KaM4EjdbRuOL-hsRHVc/s1600-h/Awesome-Flyer-postcard01WEB.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 247px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk4IDRWo0fa0tNNcflUeU-U60yNPf_vKXL28mHfQ6XqEWARNknOkq_Ie8xlBLiboh33R6hXo77KXBn4DP3Sbi-VW9W-zgRpammDhKliTwgOLmk3IfBJpJDBBK7KaM4EjdbRuOL-hsRHVc/s320/Awesome-Flyer-postcard01WEB.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330597459813589778" /></a>Ignite.Studio for Social Sculpturehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08282683514677910447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2701543962197890311.post-65659779122158870502009-04-30T14:13:00.000-07:002009-04-30T14:15:20.927-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQJ6P93R2Jkshh298fGKcPGhQzO5P-W-K113aFj0ZFZoSvl8WhrVJGRzV-5VvpB7vo-agZj9yp1DPfqtYEKswEzxLYLesTGLjYP7WwCRJVG2bo1aISTkNlnOz4ZUMEVA9NDbaHqjWpNi0/s1600-h/image001.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 207px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQJ6P93R2Jkshh298fGKcPGhQzO5P-W-K113aFj0ZFZoSvl8WhrVJGRzV-5VvpB7vo-agZj9yp1DPfqtYEKswEzxLYLesTGLjYP7WwCRJVG2bo1aISTkNlnOz4ZUMEVA9NDbaHqjWpNi0/s320/image001.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330595980291352626" /></a>Ignite.Studio for Social Sculpturehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08282683514677910447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2701543962197890311.post-69763755124063608812009-04-24T15:55:00.000-07:002009-04-24T16:03:20.218-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRIohZ44CUKZfzDGyMETca0KbXTk5VIBpg426ImGod3JQVX5wSaKx1duRFeQNRNwG6YntCyuD8Rxfmj0UuuvzPYHccn-nzRVNknB4odFW8Xhwvoq9ofoVLs0f2JoGmO5eSMh8bLcXbmIY/s1600-h/Picture+8.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 307px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRIohZ44CUKZfzDGyMETca0KbXTk5VIBpg426ImGod3JQVX5wSaKx1duRFeQNRNwG6YntCyuD8Rxfmj0UuuvzPYHccn-nzRVNknB4odFW8Xhwvoq9ofoVLs0f2JoGmO5eSMh8bLcXbmIY/s320/Picture+8.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5328395789926873858" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family:arial;font-size:13px;"><div style="text-align: left; "><span style=" ;"><span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "><span style=" ;"><span><span style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">DANCEbank</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style=" ;"><span><span style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> Spring session </span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left; "><span style=" ;"><span style=" ;"><span><span style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Saturdays 11am-1pm, April 25, May 2, May 9 </span></span></span></span></span></span></div></span><div>Esther Baker-Tarpaga<br />Esther’s movement class draws from her most recent explorations in West African Dance and Improvisation. The class will consist of a rhythmic and spinal oriented warm up drawing from West African movement, modern dance, and yoga, short combinations across the floor with the accompaniment of live drumming, and guided improvisations in group, solo, and duet forms. It is an open level class and will have live drumming and music.<br /><br />Esther M. Baker-Tarpaga, choreographer and dancer, has a B.A. from Bowdoin College in French and Anthropology and an M.A. in Dance and M.F.A. in Choreography from UCLA’s World Arts and Cultures Dept. She is co-founder and co-director of Baker & Tarpaga Dance Project, a transnational company that intertwines West African dance and postmodern dance with live music to create physically powerful dance theatre. Recent works in 2008 include Los Angeles premieres of Dar Es Salaam at Celebrate Dance Alex Theatre, Sira Kan/On the Road at the REDCAT NOW Festival, and Disorder Inside Order at the John Anson Ford Amphitheatre. In 2007 Esther was invited as a cultural Envoy to teach contemporary dance and to choreograph a new piece for Djoliba National Ballet in Conakry, Guinea. From 2000-2005 she collaborated with Senegal-based dancers, musicians, and rappers on several projects and implemented and led UCLA’s first summer study abroad program in Senegal at Germaine Acogny’s Ecole de Sables. She is the recipient of a Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, a Durfee, and UCIRA grant and is currently dancing in David Rousseve/REALITY new work Saudade.. She has recently taught courses and choreographed work with students at Marlborough High School, Rio Hondo College, Cypress College, and is a HeArt Project artist in residence for continuation high schools in Los Angeles. www.btdanceproject.com</div>Ignite.Studio for Social Sculpturehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08282683514677910447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2701543962197890311.post-27445653311052359972009-04-10T22:58:00.000-07:002009-04-10T23:06:56.711-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrJ-KshPbv875PBShbPQlMEDOq64AOtubu8zugLsUdTzt3fDGPlupaJeivsqr6sQWIUgWepvpgaTCWFutiCrjnmvc5HhLverlmBLgwDq3JiXoVRBw8XecVnjOkZCYeDXRwkXHL51tjHIM/s1600-h/Kan_Workshop.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 232px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrJ-KshPbv875PBShbPQlMEDOq64AOtubu8zugLsUdTzt3fDGPlupaJeivsqr6sQWIUgWepvpgaTCWFutiCrjnmvc5HhLverlmBLgwDq3JiXoVRBw8XecVnjOkZCYeDXRwkXHL51tjHIM/s320/Kan_Workshop.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323311012870912386" /></a><br />Descent Performance Laboratory and Metabolic Studio present<br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">BUTOH Workshop with Katsura Kan</span><br />Saturday, April 18 1:30-5:30 pm <br />$35 advance registration; $45 on-site registration <br />To register, please send an email including your name, phone number and email address to: rosemary@descentperformance.org<br /><br />This workshop is a unique opportunity to study closely with a Master Butoh artist during this 50th anniversary year of the dance form. Katsura Kan will lead workshop participants through preparatory exercises that lead into more advanced work in what he calls “Butoh Notation,” drawing from both from the writing of butoh co-founder Hijikata Tatsumi and from Katsura Kan’s own efforts to develop “Beckett Butoh.” The workshop is appropriate for dancers and non-dancers alike; no previous butoh experience necessary.<br /><br />Katsura Kan is a native of Kyoto, Japan, and is a Master Butoh artist from the ranks of Japan's first generation of Butoh. He performed with the seminal Butoh troupe, Byakkosha (1979-1981) and is a celebrated solo artist and collaborative performer as well as a choreographer. Katsura Kan's work as a performer, a choreographer, a researcher, and a teacher is unique in that he combines Butoh and the uniquely Japanese qualities of this dance form as a gateway to explore dance and performing arts from other cultures. Not only is Kan known for his interest in diversity in the performing arts, but he engages social-historical realities in his work. For example, Kan was an artist in residency in Bosnia & Herzegovina in 2005 and 2006. He has worked in Warszaw, Russia, Paris and Spain and has also expanded his Japanese and European background to West Africa and Thailand, working with children in both places.<br /><br />Please join us for this unique opportunity to participate in the evolution of a truly unique and global art form. - Descent Performance Laboratory<br /><br />www.descentperformance.orgIgnite.Studio for Social Sculpturehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08282683514677910447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2701543962197890311.post-54007860460655228292009-04-10T22:56:00.002-07:002009-04-10T22:57:38.523-07:00<span style="font-weight:bold;">DANCEbank Guest Artist Series</span><br />April 11 - Paige Martin<br />Paige Martin has been a member of Neil Greenberg's company since 1996 and received a 'Bessie' award for her dancing in Neil's 'this is what happened'. She has worked extensively with RoseAnne Spradlin as well as a varied assortment of others including Scotty Heron, Juliette Mapp, Sally Silvers, and Sarah Michelson. Her performance works have been presented at The Kitchen, Danspace Project at St. Marks Church, PS 122, Dixon Place, The Knitting Factory, MR at the Judson Church, and Movement Research's various festivals. <br /><br />Class will consist of movement fundamentals, some developmental, some skeletal, a little Zero Balancing and Body Mind Centering that will hopefully allow for some new information for all. Then we can play with phrases from either dated, genre-specific, or 'natural'movement styles, depending on what we need and how we feel as a group.Ignite.Studio for Social Sculpturehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08282683514677910447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2701543962197890311.post-7399829674735906182009-04-01T22:13:00.000-07:002009-04-01T22:27:56.253-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXYV6XskMSYuJOdaVXeBQkr2ga8rfylIUHTZnbYWQ1W-KbF77SsyYGRprcIMySatkhPN8SqbxfzoAkuPyJh1mecgJPBFnl0-xUON5IvCuJwtD6HqusQ-COZRSJNN4ntGluJXdIPNL_g6c/s1600-h/IMG_9464.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXYV6XskMSYuJOdaVXeBQkr2ga8rfylIUHTZnbYWQ1W-KbF77SsyYGRprcIMySatkhPN8SqbxfzoAkuPyJh1mecgJPBFnl0-xUON5IvCuJwtD6HqusQ-COZRSJNN4ntGluJXdIPNL_g6c/s320/IMG_9464.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319958991985859586" /></a><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Body Weather Laboratory LA & Farmlab Metabolic Studio present</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Body/Landscape 5-day dance workshop</span></span><br />with Frank van de Ven Body Weather Amsterdam<br />and Oguri Body Weather Los Angeles<br /><br />Sunday, April 12~Thursday, April 16. 9:00am-3:00pm<br />$200 Full participation required<br />bwlusa@yahoo.com <http://www.lightningshadow.com><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Body/Landscape:</span> The workshop proposes strategies to<br />confront our bodies with the multiplicity, unpredictability,<br />directness and autonomy of the natural environment.<br />The aim is to explore and develop consciousness of the<br />body itself being an ever evolving landscape within a<br />greater surrounding landscape.<br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">BWL Workshop</span> The basic training and point of departure for this<br />workshop, Body Weather, is a comprehensive training and performance practice that investigates the intersections of bodies and their environments. Bodies are not conceived as fixed entities, but just like the weather, constantly changing through an infinite and complex system of processes occurring in- and outside of these bodies<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Farmlab Public Salon</span></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">"Corpus Criticus: Bodies on Words - Words on Bodies"</span><br />Frank van de Ven & Victoria Looseleaf<br />Friday, April 17, 2009 Noon. Free Admission<br /><br />Considering the art of improvisation as danced by Frank van de Ven, arts journalist and critic Victoria Looseleaf opens a dialogue with both performer and audience, demystifying the genre in real time. In today's environment where criticism is losing currency, we explore the conversation between the moving body - the unspoken - and that which needs to be said.<br /><br />Metabolic Studio [Farmlab+Chora+AMI]<br />1745 North Spring Street,. Los Angeles CA 90012<br />Metabolic Studio:323-226-1158 <http://farmlab.org><br /><br /></http://farmlab.org></http://www.lightningshadow.com>Ignite.Studio for Social Sculpturehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08282683514677910447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2701543962197890311.post-32540969816940600512009-03-18T19:22:00.000-07:002009-03-18T20:20:19.121-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbICroa3o0Oiu31h8ZrbrrHc0BZ3JZjoJZID-K5ajXm2Q_eo5onuS5KXo84S4coubsFsitzuT-6dut5XShknjHVzpX6cmBuRIG4MQm0b7Yv9jrWgO_GELq1WPgvvAiEvS5Q-lTPN3C1jw/s1600-h/clearer+x.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbICroa3o0Oiu31h8ZrbrrHc0BZ3JZjoJZID-K5ajXm2Q_eo5onuS5KXo84S4coubsFsitzuT-6dut5XShknjHVzpX6cmBuRIG4MQm0b7Yv9jrWgO_GELq1WPgvvAiEvS5Q-lTPN3C1jw/s320/clearer+x.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314731863688388530" /></a><br /><br />Saturday Mornings March 21 & 28 11am-1pm $12<br />Farmlab/Metabolic Studio 1745 N. Spring St, Los Angeles, CA 90012<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Shel Wagner Rasch FLIGHT SCHOOL (Contact Improv Style)</span><br />for people who like to move<br /> <br />Come play with flying.....Each class will begin with a warm up intended to free minds and muscles while exploring our connection to the ground. Then we'll move into the fundamentals of giving and supporting weight and the cues and timing that lead to take off, looking at safe and effective techniques for both supporting a rider and riding a supporter. And finally, using curiosity as our motivation, we will explore the physics of "force" and "momentum" as tools to keep the dance flowing into and up from the ground and into and down from the air.<br /> <br />Contact Improv is one of my favorite things to do and I thoroughly enjoy sharing my take on it with other people. I've been exploring, teaching, and performing contact improv in public and in private spaces, with friends and with strangers for over 25 years and it still intrigues me. Alot.<br /> <br />My teaching style is deeply informed by Anatomy, Physics, the Alexander Technique, Somatic Experiencing, and a life-long fascination with the stories our bodies have to tell. My goal in teaching CI is to create opportunities for movement education, self discovery, and conscious contact. To this end, I seek to foster a class atmosphere in which safety, embodiment, fun, and a sense of wonder are highlighted.<br /> <br />If you have any questions about the class you can reach me at: shel@shelwagnerrasch.com <mailto:shel@shelwagnerrasch.com>Ignite.Studio for Social Sculpturehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08282683514677910447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2701543962197890311.post-26529098683872481282009-03-03T11:17:00.000-08:002009-03-03T14:37:17.213-08:0012th ANNUAL Mujeres de Maiz LIVE ART SHOW<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmVz6MjmJO5d3B6Naoe_ONkMz-T5NV8ZmZoyfsKV-2WlbcO-5xoPfLi3t4rEXUHk1Uow80ikAo-XwGrIzRXcMrmQEi0qkMD8mAClZ7yIVqhudykkkMsVX-iPZpiRE-7J4WYGf51W5_Ij4/s1600-h/images.jpeg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 118px; height: 91px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmVz6MjmJO5d3B6Naoe_ONkMz-T5NV8ZmZoyfsKV-2WlbcO-5xoPfLi3t4rEXUHk1Uow80ikAo-XwGrIzRXcMrmQEi0qkMD8mAClZ7yIVqhudykkkMsVX-iPZpiRE-7J4WYGf51W5_Ij4/s400/images.jpeg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5309094205813477778" /></a><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Sunday, March 8th, 2009 6-10pm at Metabolic Studio (Farmlab) </span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">1745 North Spring St. L.A. CA 90012</span></span><div><br /></div><div>$10-$15 (sliding scale) k-12 students $5 w/ID</div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">12th annual Mujeres de Maiz Intercultural, Intergenerational, Interdisciplinary LIVE ART SHOW</span><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Celebrating International Wombyn's Day & Wombyn's Herstory Month with art, music, film, dance, poetry, theatre, performance, vendors.</div><div><br /></div><div>Performing Artists include: Briseyda Zarate, Butchlalis de Panochtitlan, Danza Azteca Ketzalitzil, Faith Santilla, Gloria Alvarez, Happy Frejo, In Lak Ech, Jackie Lopez, Josefina lopez, Kristy Lomax (DJ), La Santa Cecilla, Las Krudas, Las Ramonas, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Maya Jupiter, Medusa, Mujeres en Resistencia, Reina Prado, Samia & Nia, Skim, Space Intruders, MC's: D'Lo, Raquel Salinas & Gutierrez</div><div> </div><div>Food by South Central Farmers colelctive: SOL ( Seasonal, Organic, Local)</div><div><br /></div><br /><br /><br /></div></div>Ignite.Studio for Social Sculpturehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08282683514677910447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2701543962197890311.post-87067932719560896912009-02-18T16:33:00.000-08:002009-02-18T16:43:45.990-08:00DANCEbank Rae Shao-Lan Blum<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8wbl1jkaTFcrmjAGhedtADfSU0SMjxUWM8HItG-DV6salVH7AJ38P7h7orhHblHIGVt2281f52AmKlcfgxcL-c2PxBMN8zptGcdno47FRuPvaSURCKNOCskE-q91GR4bKPxTvABhnZC4/s1600-h/snow+rae.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8wbl1jkaTFcrmjAGhedtADfSU0SMjxUWM8HItG-DV6salVH7AJ38P7h7orhHblHIGVt2281f52AmKlcfgxcL-c2PxBMN8zptGcdno47FRuPvaSURCKNOCskE-q91GR4bKPxTvABhnZC4/s320/snow+rae.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5304300752270112386" /></a><br /><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">f i e l d : a movement workshop in the territory and mind-set of space<br />field (feeld), (n.) a body of open ground. (v.) to deal with, to put </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">out.</span></span><br /></div><div><br />Saturday Mornings Feb. 21, 28 & March 7 at 11am-1pm $12<br />Farmlab/Metabolic Studio 1745 N. Spring St, Los Angeles, CA 90012<br /><br />This workshop is focused on heightening awareness of space from the inside out. Through a layered practice of guided somatic explorations, semi-structured scores and writing practice, we will tune our instruments of perception, presence, responsiveness and spontaneity in the art of improvisation. Basic cranio-sacral concepts, anatomy and breath work will be introduced and integrated as a grounding reference in sensing and tracking. We will dance the big, we will dance the intricate, we will move the big-small space.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Rae Shao-Lan Blum</span> is a dancer, choreographer, teacher, body worker and student practitioner/assistant teacher of Visionary Craniosacral Work. In addition to her formal training in modern dance, she has been improvising for over fifteen years. Rae developed her aesthetics and skills in the influence of many great teachers- KJ Holmes, Janis Brenner and Simone Forti to name a few. She also acknowledges influential teachers in the realms of life potentiating practices: Mary Abrams and Susan Harper (Continuum Movement), Christine Price (Gestalt Awareness Practice), and Hugh & Giorgia Milne (Visionary Craniosacral Work). Rae is a 2008 "Mentee" recipient of CHIME together with "Mentor," Simone Forti. <a href="http://www.raeshaolanblum.blogspot.com/">www.raeshaolanblum.blogspot.com </a><http://www.raeshaolanblum.blogspot.com><a href="http://www.raeshaolanblum.blogspot.com/"><br /></a><br /></http://www.raeshaolanblum.blogspot.com></div>Ignite.Studio for Social Sculpturehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08282683514677910447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2701543962197890311.post-79956779215219982832009-01-30T15:10:00.000-08:002009-01-30T15:21:25.591-08:00four - music and dance improvisation<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbWarlNXVTihlIAez1LihCLm7Ik_3Zjbi1xCgFkU9M32BA3eh7aWYcr1nj3pG_wyP-mFzGHIxLrV0-RjkJZLjkAkeU_MpE_JLDNU1k6-djBZEYBUf8QrqYxe0EBcsEPk3w4Kj2qiddNpQ/s1600-h/four.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 269px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbWarlNXVTihlIAez1LihCLm7Ik_3Zjbi1xCgFkU9M32BA3eh7aWYcr1nj3pG_wyP-mFzGHIxLrV0-RjkJZLjkAkeU_MpE_JLDNU1k6-djBZEYBUf8QrqYxe0EBcsEPk3w4Kj2qiddNpQ/s400/four.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5297230186677169442" /></a><br /><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Tatsuya Nakatani (Percussion)<div>Michel Doneda (Saxophone)<br />Kaoru Watanabe (Flute) and Oguri (Dance)<br />Monday, February 16 & Tuesday, 17 2009 8:00pm<br /><br />Metabolic Studio<br />1745 North Spring Street, Los Angeles CA 90012<br /><br />Admission: $15 Children, under 16 free<br />Information: Metabolic Studio 323-226-1158<br /><a href="http://www.lightningshadow.com/">http://www.lightningshadow.com</a><br /><br />Body Weather Laboratory and the Metabolic Studio are pleased to announce the return of Tatsuya Nakatani (percussion) and Oguri (dance) with four Music and Dance Improvisations. This year’s show also features internationally acclaimed musicians form Japan and France Kaoru Watanabe (flute) and Michel Doneda (saxophone).<br /></div></div>Ignite.Studio for Social Sculpturehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08282683514677910447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2701543962197890311.post-48978589634103737642009-01-30T15:07:00.000-08:002009-01-30T15:21:29.961-08:00DANCEbank Hana van der Kolk<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5hNAeb-N9aSE25GFSBJ_2RFfrZHp71ll45YXo-pFq7Hh37ba_dNEb6jq6XJdKYTLVNaelzuCFskcBuBmfeUY2uL74W537NWfG9Qq5YNx0rcyl94fFb7XgFKufixqFiPEDS-kPS8FOU7k/s1600-h/images.jpeg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 150px; height: 102px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5hNAeb-N9aSE25GFSBJ_2RFfrZHp71ll45YXo-pFq7Hh37ba_dNEb6jq6XJdKYTLVNaelzuCFskcBuBmfeUY2uL74W537NWfG9Qq5YNx0rcyl94fFb7XgFKufixqFiPEDS-kPS8FOU7k/s400/images.jpeg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5297230791848567090" /></a><br /><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">January 31, Feb 7, 14th 11am-1pm</span></span><div><br /></div><div>at Metabolic Studio / Farmlab<br /></div>1745 North Spring Street, #4<br />LA, CA 90012<br />www.farmlab.org <http://www.farmlab.org><br /><br />Jan 31, Feb 7, 14 - Hana van der Kolk<br /><br />Hana's classes are open to all (no dance experience necessary) and combine a slow, centering warm up influenced by BodyMind Centering, Alexander Technique, Yoga, and Release Technique, with a fun, sweaty, simple and big-moving section inspired by Hip Hop, Jazz, and modern dance. The class ends with some improvising that focuses on questions of consciousness that aim to expand physical and mental possibilities.<br /><br />Hana van der Kolk is a Los Angeles-based artist whose choreographic projects combine elements of conceptual practice with the techniques of postmodern choreography and take place in a wide range of sites, including the stage, studios and galleries, in writing, on film, and in outdoor, public spaces. She is highly influenced by her longtime engagement with the work of choreographer Deborah Hay, whose solos she has been learning and adapting since 2000. Hanarecently collaborated on projects with Jesse Aron Green, My Barbarian, Robby Herbst, Adam Overton, Emily Mast, and Carolina San Juan. You can learn more about her May 2007 site-specific performance/participatory event at www.interimuses.org <http://www.interimuses.org> , and about the intensive practice-based, inter-disciplinary artist's residency that she directs at www.genesisprojectla.org <http://www.genesisprojectla.org> . Hana holds an MFA in choreography from UCLA.<br /><br /><br /><br />free & abundant street parking!<br />enter around the back of the building, through the garden, under the bridge<br />if you've never been to Farmlab, it can be a little confusing the first time, so here's a map:<br /><br /><a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=1745+N+Spring,+90012&ie=UTF8&z=16&iwloc=addr">http://maps.google.com/maps?q=1745+N+Spring,+90012&ie=UTF8&z=16&iwloc=addr</a><br /><br /><br /></http://www.genesisprojectla.org></http://www.interimuses.org></http://www.farmlab.org></div>Ignite.Studio for Social Sculpturehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08282683514677910447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2701543962197890311.post-8269431476102546322009-01-08T13:02:00.000-08:002009-01-08T13:08:35.918-08:00DANCEbank Mira Kingsley January 10, 17, 24<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">DANCEbank Winter/Spring session starts up this Saturday, January 10th</span></span><br /></div><div><br />Saturdays 11am-1pm, $12<br />January 10, 17, 24 - <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Mira Kingsley (11am-1pm)</span><br /><br />at Metabolic Studio / Farmlab<br />1745 North Spring Street, #4<br />LA, CA 90012<br />www.farmlab.org <http://www.farmlab.org><br /><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;">Four Infinite Bodies </span></span><br />This is a dance/theater improvisation workshop. We will dance and we will speak. Or some might say, we will make movements and sounds. Sometimes we will do both at the same time and we will all be working together even if it appears we are occasionally working on solos. During the whole shebang we will voraciously question what it all means and why we are doing it in the first place. These 3 winter workshops emerge from a deep consideration of the four bodies of the Buddha. In ancient Tibetan Buddhist philosophy the body of the Buddha manifests itself in four miraculous ways; impossibly abstract, mythical, "realistic," and something like… all at once. We challenge the limitlessness of our imaginations and the infinite potential of our being to transform as we take on entering these four extraordinary forms. Special attention will be placed on the personal process of forging meaning movement to movement in the present moment and the development of that meaning while the future rushes past. The goal is always to discover CLARITY, RESONANCE, FREEDOM and JOY in the artistic process. This workshop is open to art makers of all disciplines.<br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Mira Kingsley </span>is dedicated to the collaborative creation of original experimental interdisciplinary works for live performance with a focus on the integration of Dance and Theater. Her choreography and directing work has been seen in LA at REDCAT (Daughter of a Cuban Revolutionary, Circle Course, Remember Repeat), The 24th Street Theater (Good Night), The Bootleg (Yes is a long time), and various works at Highways. In NY at many venues including The Bam Next Wave Festival, The Kitchen, The Guggenheim Museum, Joyce Soho, and the legendary Apollo Theater among others. As a performer she has been seen on stage at venues including Broadway, Carnegie Hall, and The Metropolitan Opera. She is currently a fulltime Professor in the dance department at The University of California Santa Barbara and a fulltime student. She will premiere a new work with her Company at Highways in May 2009.<br /><br /><br /><br />free & abundant street parking!<br />enter around the back of the building, through the garden, under the bridge<br />if you've never been to Farmlab, it can be a little confusing the first time, so here's a map:<br /><br /></http://www.farmlab.org></div>Ignite.Studio for Social Sculpturehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08282683514677910447noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2701543962197890311.post-44558264609374394242008-11-25T06:38:00.000-08:002008-11-25T06:48:34.472-08:00CHIME LIVE Monday December 1<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Monday December 1 at 8 pm with reception to follow</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 286px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1DBD-GLwVpxOxnEGBZtfq9cZHnKfhFLNW1tgVkvzrMOqfr8t6UkWERC0JkqrKnGC8pBUWp_wZd-cqCPSI5Bh0gNiCm45FhtuV2XDpu8zuTqX17a1gkr-LQxctFz-m1mTYKG9LS8fJ0qs/s400/CHIME-SC-PC08-FINAL.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5272605057505982050" /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Please join the 2008 CHIME artists as they share their experiences <br /></div>in this program with the public. Artists will present showings<br />of work developed during the year, and discuss their insights into<br />mentorship and the program’s role in affecting choreography.<br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><br />PRESENTATIONS BY:</span><br />Simone Forti & Rae Shaolan Blum,<br />Rosanna Gamson & Bradley Michaud,<br />David Roussève & Olivier Tarpaga<br /><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Free to the public.</span></div><div><br /></div><div>For information,<br />call 310.405.9376 or e-mail chime@mjdc.org<br /><br /></div><div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div>Ignite.Studio for Social Sculpturehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08282683514677910447noreply@blogger.com0