Neil Greenberg teaching on Saturday
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Sarah Vox
Nov 17, 2009, 12:20:14 PM11/17/09
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DANCEbank Fall session
Saturdays, 11am-1pm
class costs $12. cash only, exact change appreciated!
please pay teacher before class starts
class costs $12. cash only, exact change appreciated!
please pay teacher before class starts
Sep 5, 12, 19: Cheng-Chieh Yu
Sept. 26, October 3, 10: Roxanne Steinberg
Oct. 17, 24: Kevin Williamson
Oct. 31st: Hana van der Kolk
November 7, 14, 21: Neil Greenberg
December 5, 12: Sheetal Gandhi
classes are held at Metabolic Studio/Farmlab
1745 North Spring Street, #4
directions below and at www.farmlab.org
Sept. 26, October 3, 10: Roxanne Steinberg
Oct. 17, 24: Kevin Williamson
Oct. 31st: Hana van der Kolk
November 7, 14, 21: Neil Greenberg
December 5, 12: Sheetal Gandhi
classes are held at Metabolic Studio/Farmlab
1745 North Spring Street, #4
directions below and at www.farmlab.org
November 7, 14, 21: Neil Greenberg
I'm thinking that each
class/workshop will draw from three possible
arenas:
- Working with information
from some of the somatic approaches I've studied, considering body
systems in addition to, and in conjunction with, the prevalent
skeletal/muscular model. Could be called a bodywork
approach to movement training. Warming up will be one goal,
here. Call this the "technique" focus.
- Directed
improvisation, using some of the ideas from my recent "Really Queer
Dance With Harps" as a springboard, and also working with ideas from
my current project: I've been questioning the notion that speech
metaphors-for example, "what is this dance saying?"-can
accurately describe dance experiences. I'm instead interested
in exploring the "isness" of the performance moment.
- Working with set
material drawn from my choreography, learning and playing with
"phrase-work." Sort of a mini repertory focus. (This
probably a lower priority for me at present.)
I still feel quite new to
L.A., and hope to continue making work here. I see these
workshops as an opportunity to continue to meet and get to know
artists from the L.A. dance community, and to bring to the table some
of the ideas with which I've been working. Feel free to email
me with any questions: ne...@ucr.edu.
Neil Greenberg moved to L.A. from N.Y.C. in fall 2007 to join the dance faculty of UC Riverside. He has been making dances since 1979, and is known especially for his 1994 work, Not-About-AIDS-Dance, which employs his signature use of projected supertitles as an alternative text to the onstage dance action, and a door into the "meanings" of viewing dance. His work also reflects the influence of innovative somatic approaches to movement, such as Klein Technique, which he's studied extensively with Barbara Mahler and Susan Klein, and Body-Mind Centering, which he's studied with RoseAnne Spradlin. His most recent work, Really Queer Dance With Harps, continues his investigation into the nature of meaning-making. RQDWH premiered at Dance Theater Workshop in NY in June 2008, and was presented at REDCAT in LA in April 2009. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, NEA NYFA & the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, two "Bessies," a Time Out Audience Award, and grants from the National Dance Project, the Rockefeller Multi-Arts Production Fund and NYSCA. He has created two commissions for Mikhail Baryshnikov's White Oak Dance Project. A former dancer with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company (1979-1986), he has been on the dance faculty of Purchase College and Sarah Lawrence College, and served as dance curator at The Kitchen from 1995-1999. For more information: <www.neilgreenberg.org>.
COMING UP:
December 5, 12: Sheetal
Gandhi
Sheetal is interested in movement
that is gestural, expressive and musically complex.
She draws on her inspirations
including kathak dance, vocal percussion, popping and waving, modern
dance, classic jazz, Michael Jackson, West African dance, Pilates,
Yoga and Bharatanatyam mudras. This two-part course will use the
complex, precise rhythms of the North Indian classical dance form
Kathak, as a springboard into exploring the musician-dancer
body. Choreographically, we will explore the possibilities
within the drum and dance language, using our voices and dance to
create highly specific movement sequences and soundscapes. All
levels and techniques welcome. The class should warm you up,
cool you down, and keep you groovin' in
between!
Sheetal Gandhi is
interested in creating a space that brings the many sides of her
personality together: dramatic, wry, Indian, American, dancer,
percussionist, abstract, chameleon, precise, impulsive, singer and
storyteller. She draws on her strengths and professional successes
from the subway platform to the Broadway stage to create work that
blurs cultural and disciplinary boundaries, promoting intercultural
understanding through artistic excellence. In 1993, Sheetal's
passion for rhythm led her to Ghana, West Africa where she spent a
year studying and performing the traditional music and dances of the
region. Sheetal grew up folk dancing within her own culture and in
1995 moved to India for six months to further study the North Indian
classical dance form Kathak. As a percussionist, she
plays the calabash, or dried gourd, and the West African xylophone.
Sheetal worked as a creator and performer in Cirque du
Soleil'sDralion, and toured with the international cast from
1999-2001. Her New York credits include: leading role in the
Broadway production of Bombay Dreams, Stephen
Schwartz's Children of Eden at the Paper Mill
Playhouse, and the revival of Hair. Gandhi was
Co-Artistic Director of the modern dance company California
Contemporary Dancers in San Francisco from 2001-2004 and holds an MFA
in Dance/Choreography from UCLA's Dept. of World Arts and Cultures.
Most recently she has been touring her multi-disciplinary one-woman
show, Bahu-Beti-Biwi (Daughter-in-law, Daughter, Wife),
with recent performances in Los Angeles at the REDCAT NOW Festival and
in New York with the National Asian American Theater Festival.
For more info. visit www.sheetalgandhi.com
...about Metabolic
Studio
Derived from the Greek word for change, 'metabolism' is the process that maintains life. In continuous cycles of creation and destruction metabolism transforms nutrients into energy and matter. Working to sustain these cycles, the Metabolic Studio transforms resources into energy, actions, and objects that nurture life. Led by artist and philanthropist Lauren Bon, it is a studio for practice at the intersection of art and philanthropy. The Metabolic Studio comprises Chora, which supports the intangibles that precede creativity, and Farmlab, which supports living things in often-hostile environments.
Derived from the Greek word for change, 'metabolism' is the process that maintains life. In continuous cycles of creation and destruction metabolism transforms nutrients into energy and matter. Working to sustain these cycles, the Metabolic Studio transforms resources into energy, actions, and objects that nurture life. Led by artist and philanthropist Lauren Bon, it is a studio for practice at the intersection of art and philanthropy. The Metabolic Studio comprises Chora, which supports the intangibles that precede creativity, and Farmlab, which supports living things in often-hostile environments.
DIRECTIONS: 1745
North Spring Street, #4, Los Angeles
The building is a warehouse and is literally under the Spring St. Bridge, and more like it's on Baker @ Aurora.
From the 110, exit Solano and turn R, go down the hill to Broadway.
L on Broadway. Cross the bridge. At the intersection of 18th, Broadway, Pasadena, make a hard right onto North Spring (it should feel like you are doubling back).
Cross a second bridge. At the end of the bridge make a quick R @ Aurora. You are now next to the warehouse! Walk under the bridge through the urban planter garden. Metabolic Studios is right there.
From the 10:
Exit Alameda
take Alameda all the way to China Town
veer R onto Spring St.
Go past the park (to your left) and continue towards the bridge. One block before the bridge is Baker ST. make a left onto very crumbly road. Take to end (about 2 blocks). You are now parked behind the Metabolic Studios. You can walk through the workshop, then the garage to get to the studio.
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The building is a warehouse and is literally under the Spring St. Bridge, and more like it's on Baker @ Aurora.
From the 110, exit Solano and turn R, go down the hill to Broadway.
L on Broadway. Cross the bridge. At the intersection of 18th, Broadway, Pasadena, make a hard right onto North Spring (it should feel like you are doubling back).
Cross a second bridge. At the end of the bridge make a quick R @ Aurora. You are now next to the warehouse! Walk under the bridge through the urban planter garden. Metabolic Studios is right there.
From the 10:
Exit Alameda
take Alameda all the way to China Town
veer R onto Spring St.
Go past the park (to your left) and continue towards the bridge. One block before the bridge is Baker ST. make a left onto very crumbly road. Take to end (about 2 blocks). You are now parked behind the Metabolic Studios. You can walk through the workshop, then the garage to get to the studio.
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Please note:
I will no longer be posting event/performance information along with the DANCEbank class emails.
Everyone on this list is being invited to participate in a new arrangement... so if you like getting information from me, now you can get it directly from the people sending it to me! here...
a new community service to PROMOTE YOUR EVENTS/FIND OUT ABOUT EVENTS:
I have just set up a Yahoo group for dance-related performance/event announcements, called Show Box List. In order for this to be of any use, you need to participate. Subscribe to the list! It is free and open to anyone. If you want to send out your announcements, subscribe to this group, and you can post your info, simply and directly. Subscribers to the group get all listings emailed directly to them, either as the postings come in, or in a daily digest form. Out of my hands, into yours... take it. Use it.
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Sarah Vox
Nov 21, 2009, 12:37:40 PM11/21/09
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Reminder:
I will no longer be posting event/performance information along with the DANCEbank class emails.
Everyone on this list is being invited to participate in a new
arrangement... so if you like getting information from me, now you can
get it directly from the people sending it to me! here...
a new community service to PROMOTE YOUR EVENTS/FIND OUT ABOUT EVENTS:
I have just set up a Yahoo group for dance-related performance/event announcements, called Show Box List. In order for this to be of any use, you need to participate. Subscribe to the list! It is free and open to anyone. If you want to send out your announcements, subscribe to this group, and you can post your info, simply and directly. Subscribers to the group get all listings emailed directly to them, either as the postings come in, or in a daily digest form. Out of my hands, into yours... take it. Use it.
a new community service to PROMOTE YOUR EVENTS/FIND OUT ABOUT EVENTS:
I have just set up a Yahoo group for dance-related performance/event announcements, called Show Box List. In order for this to be of any use, you need to participate. Subscribe to the list! It is free and open to anyone. If you want to send out your announcements, subscribe to this group, and you can post your info, simply and directly. Subscribers to the group get all listings emailed directly to them, either as the postings come in, or in a daily digest form. Out of my hands, into yours... take it. Use it.
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