DANCEbank Winter/Spring session starts up this Saturday, January 10th
Saturdays 11am-1pm, $12
January 10, 17, 24 - Mira Kingsley (11am-1pm)
at Metabolic Studio / Farmlab
1745 North Spring Street, #4
LA, CA 90012
www.farmlab.org
Four Infinite Bodies
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.
Mira Kingsley 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.
free & abundant street parking!
enter around the back of the building, through the garden, under the bridge
if you've never been to Farmlab, it can be a little confusing the first time, so here's a map:
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