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.

7-8pm - Class

8-10pm - Jam

Open to dancers from all disciplines.

Facilitated by Justin Morrison, Leslie Seiters, & Ron Estes.

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.

March 4, 2008
San Diego Union Tribune

Katherine Cordova approached a ballet barre for the first time when her younger daughter, an avid dancer, left home. “She made me take a class to give me something to concentrate on when she left,” Cordova says.

Three years later, the lithe, energetic Cordova goes to five ballet classes a week. “I’m in better shape than I’ve ever been in,” she says.

Cordova, who dances at Stage 7 in North Park, also enjoys the beauty of ballet as an art form. As Stage 7 director Kathryn Irey puts it, “There’s something intrinsically satisfying about exercise that has an artistic lens.”

Along with aesthetic rewards, adult ballet offers a range of fitness benefits, say Irey and other teachers who offer classes for adults.

Ballet training improves flexibility, tone, balance, coordination and posture, says Michelle Noblejas-Bartolomei of Music and the Mirror Ballet Center West in Mission Hills. “One student went to her doctor, and she’d gained three-quarters of an inch in height by the improvement in her posture and the way she carried herself.”

At the intermediate level, students get an aerobic workout, Steven Wistrich of City Ballet says. “They do a fair amount of jumping. When they leave class, they’ve worked up a good sweat, and they’re breathing pretty hard.”

“A lot of students tell me it keeps their minds sharp,” Wistrich adds. That goes along with recent research on the cognitive benefits of dance.

– JANICE STEINBERG

Absolute beginners: Adult ballet attracts many people who danced as children, but there’s plenty of room for neophytes. A number of studios offer pre-beginner classes, such as Irey’s “Bonehead Ballet.” Irey begins each Bonehead class by drawing students’ awareness to their wrists, for instance, or their upper backs. The idea is to “find alienated body parts” and to integrate the body as a whole.

Belly up to the barre: Don’t worry that you’ll be expected to leap across the floor like Baryshnikov. Most of a beginning class is spent at the barre. “That’s where the foundations for the center work are learned,” Noblejas-Bartolomei says. The barre helps you balance as you shift your weight to one leg, freeing the other leg to trace a pattern on the floor or in the air.

No tutus required: Ordinary workout clothes are fine, though you’ll want to wear something form-fitting, so the teacher can see what you’re doing. For footwear, Irey’s Bonehead class is done in socks – the wilder, the better. Other classes request ballet slippers, available for $12 and up online; you may want to spend a little more at a dance store to assure the fit of your first pair.

Other class schedules vary, so be sure to check with your instructor.

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

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music:

Jeremy Drake / Tucker Dulin / Chris Heenan

dance:

Justin Morrison / Leslie Seiters / Amanda Waal

admission: free

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Sat Apr 14th, 8pm & 9pm:

The Colette Harding Contemporary Dance Company

Invites you to CHCDC's presentation of the

"Creative Mix Project"
A mixed performance featuring Dance Works by:
Colette Harding, Peter Kalivas,
Melissa Nunn, & Deven Brawley

Saturday, April 14th at 8:00 & 9:00pm
Presented as part of the Ray at Night Festivities
in North Park, San Diego

Admission is Free to the Public

Stage 7 - 3980 30th Street in North Park
(On 30th between University and Lincoln)

CHCDC is a registered 501(c)3 Nonprofit Arts Organization.

The mission of the Colette Harding Contemporary Dance Company is to build community, unite the arts, and introduce new audiences to Modern Dance and other contemporary art forms through collaborations, performances, and education. Productions and classes should enrich, educate and cultivate the arts in our growing population, including the city of San Diego, our nation, and world.

Two performances, presenting excerpts from Reflections of Angels as a preview for the forthcoming full length evening work, to be shown in April 2007.

Choreographer:

Ericka Aisha Moore

Visual Art:

Araceli Carrera

Dancers:

Araceli Carrera
Lisette Flores
Yvonne Hernandez
Becky Hurt
Ericka Aisha Moore
Melissa Studts
Liza Suter

For more information see this flyer or contact us

Continuing Weekly

Featuring live percussion, song, African and Modern dance and led by Suzanne Forbes-Vierling

For more information Contact us