In each 90-minute Feldenkrais® Awareness Through Movement (ATM) class, students will be verbally guided through a specific sequence of slow, gentle movements designed to illuminate aspects of movement and sensory awareness chosen specifically for their relevance to dancers. This series will feature four ATM lessons that will each explore the use of self in relation to one or more orientations of the arms (e.g., arms extended overhead, forwards, sideways, etc.). There will be an opportunity at the end of each lesson to explore these relationships in various orientations other than lying down on the floor. Each ATM seeks to provide a setting in which students may work at their own pace and be led by their own curiosity to rediscover and enhance their innate human capacity for graceful, effortless movement.

Benefits include:

• Increased freedom and ease of movement
• Improved balance and coordination
• Increased flexibility
• Injury prevention
• Rehabilitation from injury
• Increased expressive range
• Improved understanding of skeletal anatomy as it relates to dance

Information/Registration**: 619-464-3856

*participation in the first Feldenkrais for Dancers workshop (Aug. ’07) is NOT a prerequisite for this class series

**Space is limited so pre-registration is required.

Registration deadline is Thursday, July 10.

Drop-ins will be admitted on a first-come, first-serve basis.

Co-taught by Leslie Seiters and Kristen Baum Wilcox

Each morning and afternoon segment will begin with a Feldenkrais® Awareness Through Movement (ATM) class, in which students will be verbally guided through a specific sequence of slow, gentle movements designed to illuminate aspects of movement and sensory awareness chosen specifically for their relevance to dancers. Each lesson seeks to provide a setting in which students may work at their own pace and be led by their own curiosity to rediscover and enhance their innate human capacity for graceful, effortless movement.

The second part of each morning and afternoon session will investigate and expand on movement principles and pathways introduced in the ATM lesson and will include focused improvisations, set movement sequences with an emphasis on floor-work, and finally complex movement phrases. The dancing portion of this workshop is designed to continue the awareness, efficiency and specificity generated by the ATM classes to create a refined way of “working” when dancing.

This workshop will provide contexts for disorientation and reorganization to allow dancing bodies to utilize their intelligence.

Registration Deadline: Tuesday, June 3rd

Information/Registration: email kbaum1001@yahoo.com or call 619-464-3856

*each day will include a one-hour lunch break

**A sliding scale fee structure is available for those who qualify. If you would like to be considered for a fee reduction, please let us know when you call to register.

11am-1pm

A ballet based warm-up will be given at 10:45am.

Stage 7’s new Pas de Deux Lab will explore principles of partnership from contemporary ballet backward toward classical ballet techniques.

Movement problems will explore the following:

• How do we communicate with weight?
• What perceptual skills support effective collaboration in dance?
• What makes the space between us dynamic and useful?
• How can we harness principles of leverage and displacement to share power?

Expect an experimental, experiential approach!

Expect to have fun!!

Class will be conducted with guidance and direction from Kathryn Irey.

beginning Wed July 4th
continuing weekly

7-9pm

Weekly sessions will provide structure and practice in improvisation, and will develop perceptual skills crucial to ensemble performance.

Through experimentation, dialogue and guided exercises, dancers will investigate the impact of actively seeing and hearing while moving.

Classes will emphasize:

• Noticing the impact of “feeling” states in performance.
• Recognizing ones personal, choreographic “ethic”.
• The use of choice in creating a collaborative Instant Composition.

Open to dancers from all disciplines.

Drop-ins welcome but continued attendance is encouraged.

"Movement is produced by the rapport of odd elements, of the contrasts of colors between themselves which constitutes Reality." -Robert Delaunay

Facilitated by Justin Morrison

We are very happy to announce the beginning of a new 4 week series, lead by Feldenkrais practitioner Kristen Baum-Wilcox.

COST:

$25 drop in rate
$80 for all 4 days (8 hours, registration required)

(contact Justin for discount & work/trade options)

DATES/TIME:

Weekly on Friday July 13th, 20th, 27th & August 3rd
2-4pm

REGISTRATION

Due to limited space we require registration and pre-payment in order to receive the discounted rate of $80 for all 4 sessions. Register by completing our contact form.

Checks may be made out to:
Stage 7 School of Dance
3980 30th St., San Diego, 92104
ATTN: Feldenkrais Workshop

Registration and payment can also be made in person at Stage 7.

If attending specific days, please Register and specify which days you will attend (the drop-in rate will apply).

Workshop description

In the Feldenkrais For Dancers Workshop, you can begin
to rediscover your innate capacity for graceful, easy
movement through increasing your awareness of how you
have learned to adapt physically to the world around
you. Each two-hour workshop will focus on a theme
chosen for its relevance to the specific needs of
dancers and will draw upon knowledge of biomechanics
and an empirical understanding of human learning.

In class, students will be verbally directed through a
sequence of related movements designed to improve some
aspect of physical functioning (e.g., freedom of the
head, ribcage, arms, legs). Students will be
encouraged to learn at their own pace, moving slowly
and gently so as to increase their sensitivity to the
quality of their own movements.

Benefits include:

• Increased freedom and ease of movement
• Improved balance and coordination
• Increased flexibility
• Injury prevention
• Rehabilitation from injury
• Increased expressive range
• Improved understanding of skeletal anatomy as it relates to dance

Kristen Baum Wilcox

Kristen is a guild certified Feldenkrais practitioner. She operates her own practice teaching Functional Integration ® and Awareness Through Movement (ATM) ®, at her studio in La Mesa, the Center for Creative and Playful Activities.

For more information contact Kristen at: 619-464-3856

COST

$15 per class
Drop-ins welcome

RSVP

If you plan to attend, please RSVP by completing our contact form here, and note which day(s) you will attend

Workshop Description

In these two classes we will explore intricate coordination, while paring down our embodiment of movement to its spatial and sensory elements. We will investigate what it means to have an integrative dance practice, using techniques that emphasize mind/body awareness and alignment through imagery. In a simple warm-up, designed to bring space, direction, and flow of energy through the joints, we will work with breath, form, and oppositional forces in the body. Full-bodied phrase work will draw on internal and external geometries (both imagined and real), and on our personal and collective senses of time.

Cori Olinghouse

Cori Olinghouse was a member of the Trisha Brown Dance Company from 2002-2006. During her time there she performed as a soloist at the Bolshoi Ballet and taught material to Etoile dancers of the Paris Opera Ballet for Trisha Brown’s 2004 creation, O Composite. She teaches regularly at the Trisha Brown Dance Studios and Dance New Amsterdam in New York City, and she has been a guest teacher at the London Contemporary Dance School, Bennington College, and Sushi Visual and Performing Arts Gallery, among others. Since 1997, Cori has maintained a duet history in improvisation with Susan Sgorbati and is currently involved in teaching and performance residencies with The Emergent Improvisation Project. Her own work has been presented at Bennington College, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, and the Improvisation Festival in New York City. Cori’s approach to dance is influenced by her study of the Alexander Technique. In September, she joined the Manhattan Center for the Alexander Technique to pursue her certification to become a teacher.

http://www.trishabrowncompany.org

http://emergentimprovisation.org