| Alan Sondheim on Wed, 6 Jan 2010 03:11:25 +0100 (CET) |
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| <nettime-ann> DANCE / MOVEMENT CLASSES AT DNA |
. DANCE / MOVEMENT CLASSES AT DNA! Foofwa d'Imobilite (and Alan Sondheim) (Foofwa is a brilliant teacher - I've seen him teach a number of times.) Dance New Amsterdam 280 Broadway, 2nd Floor (entrance on Chambers) New York, NY 10007 Phone: 212.625.8369 E-mail: [email protected] Description below - Foofwa d'Imobilite Post Merce Neoformalism Dance Training Wednesday, Thursday & Friday: noon-2pm January 13th-January 15th Foofwa d'Imobilite and Alan Sondheim Body States: New Explorations in Movement Monday, Wednesday & Friday: 2-4pm January 18th-January 22nd Class Descriptions Post Merce Neoformalism Dance TrainingFoofwas classes are informed by his professional training in Ballet (in the Stuttgart Ballet from 87 to 90) and the Cunningham technique (with MCDC from 91 to 98). His interest in post-modern approaches to the body and his own physical investigations after 12 years of choreography makes the training a gentle and fun awareness of the body possibilities in complex movements.
Body States: New Explorations in Movement w/ Foofwa & Alan SondheimLately, Foofwa explored chaos in multiple ways. First, in playing with (un)balance, he was able to create disorder and indeterminacy in very formal dance phrases. Second, he was inspired by uncontrolled dancelike movements caused by muscle contractions that occur as symptoms of several different disorders called Chorea. And third, he made improvisations duplicating some of Alan Sondheims avatar moves-these avatars follow chaotic and humanly impossible movement patterns. These three examples will guide us to explore how very formal dances can become chaotic and excitingly so!
See also: http://www.alansondheim.org/DNAclasses.jpg http://www.dnadance.org/site/page-02permanent-classespermanent-classes/special-january-guests/ _______________________________________________ nettime-ann mailing list [email protected] http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-ann