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spring 2005 Events:
Simone Forti Residency
January 31 - February 5, 2005
The Program of Movement and Dance has the pleasure to invite
Simone Forti for a one-week residency, January 31st - February
5th. During her visit, Simone Forti will work with a group of students
on a daily basis, from Monday to Friday from 5:00-7:00p.m, in the
Spurrier Dance Studio. Her residency will end with the presentation
of her work, on Saturday February, 5th. DAN 340C will work in conjunction
with the workshop, starting one week prior on January 24th (times
and days TBA).
All students are welcome. No previous dance experience
is necessary.
Lecture & Demonstration
Saturday, February 5 at 7:00pm
Simone Forti will speak about her beginnings and her evolution
through
different periods of her work in dance. She will speak
of her influences
including her teachers, the work of her colleagues, and of artists such as
the composer John Cage and the photographer Eadweard Muybridge. She will show slides from the 1960s and 1970s including images of her own work and
that of other choreographers, to give a sense of the history of the area of
dance in which she is still working. And she will welcome questions from
the audience.
Simone Forti is a dancer/choreographer/writer.
Her roots are in dance
improvisation which she studied with Anna Halprin
in the 1950s, and in the
New York Judson Dance Theater which revolutionized
dance in the 1960s, a
time rich in dialogue between artists, musicians,
poets and dancers. From
her early minimalist Dance-Constructions, through
her animal movement
studies and land portraits, Forti has explored
forms and behaviors she that found in the world. Over the past twenty years
she has been combining movement and language in a form she calls Logomotion.
Writing is part of the process leading to her improvised performances,
and she is currently exploring writing improvisation as forms that feed each other.
An Evening of Contemporary Dance:
Works by Lionel Popkin and
Agnes Benoit-Nader
March 25 7:00p.m.
Lionel Popkin is an independent choreographer and dancer.
He has shown
his own work in numerous theaters and festivals throughout
the US and
Europe. He has danced in a variety of companies including
those of
Trisha Brown (2000-2003), Terry Creach (1996-2000), and
Stephanie Skura
(1993-1996). Lionel has been on the faculty of Bates
College, the Laban
Centre in London, Sarah Lawrence College, Temple University, and UCLA.
He is a certified teacher of Skinner Releasing Technique.
Agnes Benoit-Nader is a teacher, choreographer
and improviser. She has presented her own work, performed
with different improvisers and taught in several venues and
countries including the USA, France, England, and Belgium.
She has been on the dance faculty at the University of Rochester
since the Fall of 2000, teaching Contact Improvisation, Fundamentals
of
Movement, Contemporary Dance, Experiencing the Body, and Moving
through Words (a class combining language composition and
dance).
Three Workshops by Lionel Popkin:
Skinner Releasing Technique
March 25: 12:30-1:45p.m. and March 26:
1:30-3:00p.m.
This class will focus on a brief introduction
to the basic principles and
methodologies of Skinner Releasing Technique.
Skinner Releasing Technique uses
poetic imagery and hands-on tactile studies to
facilitate a deeper kinesthetic
experience of movement. Spontaneous dancing evoked
by imagery enables students
to explore technical principles such as multi-directional
alignment, economy,
suppleness and autonomy.
Contemporary Dance Technique
March 26: 11:00-12:30p.m.
This class will explore ways our bodies move
from a structural and anatomical
approach. We will focus on the kinesthetic experience
of moving through
space, using an improvisational and exercise
based approach to technique. Somatic
logic and timing will be paramount as students
explore technical principles
within their own movement choices.
An Introduction to Argentine Tango
A Lecture/Demonstration
With Emmanuelle Loustaunou
Friday, April 1st, 7:00-8:15pm
What is tango? Where does it come from? Who dances
it? Are there different forms of tango?
In this lecture demonstration, you will get the
answers to all these questions
and more. Emmanuelle, accompanied by her husband Len, will give you
a brief history of Argentine Tango, from its origins to its world-wide
revival in the last fifteen years. You will be invited to experience
the elements that underlie the dance as they are introduced and demonstrated
to you.
Bio:
Emmanuelle Loustaunou
is a dancer, performer and teacher. She graduated with a BA (1991)
and MFA (2003) in Dance and Choreography from Bennington College,
VT.
Movement has been at
the core of her life through the study of dance, theatre, anatomy
and bodywork. Sometime in her teens, she began on a life long investigation
of the human body and how to support health and well being in one's
life style. Alongside
the traditional book-study of Anatomy, Physiology and Pathology,
she learned about the body through body awareness practices, dance
improvisation, and Experiential Anatomy. In 1990, Emmanuelle got
her certification in Massage Therapy from Esalen Institute in California.
She has worked as a free-lance massage practitioner, while teaching
movement and experiential anatomy courses in various countries
in Europe and in the US. Emmanuelle is also a certified Pilates
Mat instructor. Her teaching focuses on the enhancement of body
awareness and alignment, getting to know and listening to one's
body on a day to day
basis.
Additionally Emmanuelle
has developed
a passion for Argentine Tango. She has been working
on incorporating
tango elements to her choreography for the past few years. Two
of her last works “Tango Travel” and “Tangled
Soles” focused on the interplay of contemporary dance and tango
vocabularies.
Three workshops by Emmanuelle Loustaunou:
Body Awareness Workshop
Exploring the center/finding our strength
April 1: 12:30-1:45 and April 2: 11:-12:30p.m.
If you are a dancer, you most probably have heard
the phrase:”find your center”. If you practice martial arts, you will probably have heard the word “hara” or “tantiem”.
If you work out at the gym, you might have heard the current
magical word: “the core”. These words or expressions refer to the center part of the body. In this workshop, we will look in detail at this part of the body: the abdominal
and the lower back muscles, the way to stabilize, strengthen
and exercise from this area. We will look at it in relation to
body alignment and how important it is to be aware of this area
on a daily basis, regardless what activity you are involved in.
This work will give you pointers to be used in any other physical
work you might do and be very helpful to you if you suffer from
back pain. Please, wear comfortable clothes to move in and avoid
anything tight around the waist.
Argentine Tango Master Class
April 2: 1:00-3:00p.m.
In this two hour workshop you will be learning enough to
get you started on the dance
and hopefully
by the end of the workshop, to be able to lead or follow a partner
across the floor. We will spend the first hour working over the
basic elements: walking, shift of weight, the lead and the follow,
the eight leads.
In the second
hour we will learn the basic eight and the forward and backward
ochos. Please bring along a pair of light, soft leather soles shoes; avoid
heavy shoes and
rubber or other sticky surfaces as they will make it hard for
you to dance.
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