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ADVANCED MODERN WORKSHOP with MO MINER

FRIDAY July 9
9am-3pm
Cost: $60 ($50 for Dancers' Group Members)
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This workshop offers students the opportunity to study with Mo intensively. Students will explore her technique, break down floorwork, use improvisation as a means to generate movement and practice yoga to support dance training. The afternoon time will be focused on improvisation, which is a key aspect to Mo's technique. Together the group will play with improvisational forms, share and discuss results and explore the role of improvisation in composition.


TECHNIQUE AND CHOREOGRAPHIC LABORATORY INTENSIVE with KATIE FAULKNER

August 16th, 17th, and 18th
1PM – 4PM
COST $120 ($100 discounted rate for Dancers’ Group members)
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Each day will begin with a 1 ½ hour technique class exploring the energy, articulation, quirkiness, and musicality that characterizes Katie’s unique style. The remaining hour and a half will be spent exploring phrasework generated by the participants. This time is intended as a choreographic laboratory for those interested in deepening their fluency with basic choreographic tools, as well as for more experienced choreographers looking for a supportive and dedicated space within which to further imagine and experiment.


FELDENKRAIS + DANCE = ? with MARY ARMENTROUT and NINA HAFT

Wednesdays, August 18th and 25th
9am - 12:30pm
Saturdays, Aug 21st and 28th
12pm-3pm
Cost $100 ($85 for early registration before 7/1/2010)
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Nina Haft and Mary Armentrout team up to co-teach a summer intensive workshop! Join us as we explore how the Feldenkrais Method can support your contemporary dance technique. Nina Haft teaches contemporary dance drawing upon aspects of Limon and Release-based techniques, Bartenieff Fundamentals, and martial arts. Mary Armentrout is a practitioner of the Feldenkrais Method, a wide ranging system for understanding how human beings function, and learn how to learn. Using the body as our primary laboratory, Nina and Mary will interweave elements of these two approaches to deconstructing and re-imagining the body in motion. Together we will explore how very subtle changes can fundamentally alter and refine all the movements we do. Enhance awareness, release inefficient patterns, tension and pain, and increase your sense of flow as a mover. This is a wonderful opportunity for advanced dancers working in any style to bring greater felt understanding of how their body is constructed, as well as greater ease and articulation, into the execution of their movements. *Prior Feldenkrais experience is a plus, if not please speak with Mary