The provocative subtitle for this exploration comes from an idea that often emerges in discussions of what constitutes Contact Improvisation: the notion that trust is…
Category: Teaching
Thursday, December 8th at 6:30pm we will begin the second and last 5-week series offered in 2022 exploring the fundamentals of Contact Improvisation. Commitment Participants will be requested…
Following the challenges that the last few years have presented, many of us find we’re starting again in many areas of our lives. With the re-introduction of…
Today I began compiling from my various scrapbooks a comprehensive list of resources ranging from Blogs, YouTube channels, Email Lists, to Books, Articles, Safety Information…
UPDATE:This class has ended. Beginning Tuesday April 11, 2017 I’ll be offering a new class in collaboration with Dana at Infinite Yoga (now CycleOM). Titled…
This practice was recorded to guide students in my Yoga for Dancers course at SDSU, during a month when I was away dancing with Palissimo.…
Friday, July 11th 2014 18:00 (6pm) Seoul ArtSpace Seogyo (near Hong-University) Discussion about the intersection of daily life, politics and art practice, with Taerim Hong,…
I’m honored to be invited as Guest Professor at the Korea National University of the Arts, K-Arts, Department of Dance Choreography. From March through June…
I’ve created a page with video from our weekly practice sessions VIDEO: SF Music Dance Practice Group Initiated in December 2012, a weekly practice group…
I happy to extend an invitation to a pay-as-you-will yoga class I’m leading on Monday nights at Studio Valencia in the Mission. This particular group…
UPDATE: I’m no longer teaching at KUNST-STOFF arts. See my yoga page for a current schedule, which includes Saturday and Sunday class at 11am, at…
Ensemble Improvisation for Performance
Weekly sessions will provide structure and practice in improvisation, and will develop perceptual skills crucial to ensemble performance.
Through experimentation, dialogue and guided exercises, dancers will investigate the impact of actively seeing and hearing while moving.
Classes will emphasize:
- Noticing the impact of “feeling” states in performance.
- Recognizing ones personal, choreographic “ethic”.
- The use of choice in creating a collaborative Instant Composition.
I’ll be teaching Contact Improvisation, weekly, at Dance Place San Diego for most of July. Dancers of all ages, experience, shapes and sizes are welcome…
Recently I took over for Vincent Cacialano‘s movement analysis class in the Modern Theater Department at the AHK Theaterschool, Amsterdam. As an assignment the students…