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danceAble Intensive
Monday, January 24 - Wednesday, January 26, 2011
6:00-7:30 pm
Inkub8 Dance Studio, 2021 NW 1st Place, Miami, FL 33127
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danceAble Intensive registration (PDF)
danceAble Intensive registration (Word Doc) |
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Full danceable workshop Friday, Jan. 28)
Individual Classes
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$60 (includes ticket to danceAble performance
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All class material will be accessible to people with physical impairments. Please feel free to contact us in advance with
any questions regarding access or mobility issues at 305-310-8080 |
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Monday - Flying with Gravity:
Physically Inclusive Contact Improvisation |
How can our contact with another body or object change the range of our movement potential? Can two people’s limitations or “dis-abilities” combine to become virtuosic? When do our skills become liabilities? Which is more beautiful, our fragility or our strength? Jess Curtis Gravity offers a physically inclusive movement workshop for individuals with (and without) physical disabilities who are interested in exploring dance and performance using the skills of contact improvisation in a physically inclusive environment. |
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Tuesday - Dancing with Gravity:
Improvisation, Composition, and Performance |
Beginning with a simple physical training practice we will invoke the body in motion and the qualities of motion in the body, awakening our senses, exploring anatomical possibilities, rhythm and musicality in our personal movement. From this base we will expand into interaction and contact with other bodies, both improvised and composed, to
increase the dynamic, gravitational and spatial range of our movement. We will apply these expanded movement possibilities to a performance context, developing a language to speak to each other about our intentions and goals as improvisers/composers, and increasing our ability to achieve those goals. We will address the body's potential in terms
of movement, sound, image and symbol.
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Wednesday - Watching the Watcher:
Presence and Performance in Contemporary Dance |
Lately, I am intrigued by the wide range of ways that people are using the words “performance” and “presence” in relation to dancing bodies. Can I dance in a room by myself and be performing for an audience that is just me? When you are dancing with me are you performing through the medium of touch? Is it possible to not be present with each other when we are dancing together? Is our presence physically confined to the space of our bodies? Can these questions create
interesting dances? This class will be an embodied exploration of cycles and scales of sensing, observing, and consequential action in the practice of Contemporary Dance/Performance. Working from the cellular to the global, we will examine how we sense each other, take action and make meaning while we dance. We will give particular attention to the tension between the concepts of presence and performance as lenses through which to observe/view/feel/listento activate the body. We will “spend” time shifting our awareness to a more cyclical time state, unencumbered by
desires and goals and we will “take” time observing ourselves and each other, thoughtfully examining the consequences of our actions. We will examine the physical actualities of touch, manipulation, counterbalance, force, resistance, and surrender, both as physical states and as meaningful expressions of interpersonal and intercultural relations. Bring curiosity, a desire to dance and a willingness to be seen. |
Classes will be taught by various members of the company.
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