Laguna Beach Contact Improv Class and Jam with Melanie Rios-Glaser

[Sarah Swenson]

Laguna Beach Contact Improvisation Class and Jam

Saturday, February 3, 2007

Special Guest Teacher: Melanie Rios Glaser

 

Living with murky

As an extension of Melanie’s current investigations on a choreographic project, the morning class will focus on subtexts, nuance, hidden agendas and generally murky messages that are inevitably part of the contact improvisation practice.  The intent is not to clarify communication but in fact to read and be aware of multi-layered communication as part of the rich texture in improvisation.  Living with murky is an attempt to feel at home amidst indecision, mixed messages and ambiguity—a place where things are really at their juiciest and most promising.

 

Morning class: 10pm to 1pm,   $15

Break for lunch

Afternoon jam:  2pm to 5pm.  $5

 

Melanie’s Bio

Melanie Ríos Glaser was born and raised in Guatemala, received her BFA from the Juilliard School in 1994, and was named a Kennedy Center Fellow in 1998.  She was certified in 2003 as a somatic educator at Moving on Center, a school for participatory arts and somatic research in Oakland, California. She was based in Paris as a Fulbright Scholar during 2003-2004, on a project related to contact improvisation.  She completed another year in Dusseldorf, Germany before moving to Orange County in July of 2005 to become Saint Joseph Ballet’s Artistic Director.  Melanie has created more than thirty pieces for professional companies and dance schools such as the Group Motion Dance Company in Philadelphia, the Ballet Moderno y Folkorico de Guatemala, the Ballet de Cali, Colombia, her own Mosquito Dance Company, and Saint Joseph Ballet.  Her work has been performed in México, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, France, Colombia, Brazil, Philadelphia and New York.

 

 

Class and Jam will be held in the Bridge Hall of the Laguna Congregation Church on Glenneyre between St Ann’s Dr. and Cleo St.  The church is two blocks from the beach, close to downtown and nearby restaurants. The dance space is big and beautiful and sunny but can be cool in the morning.  For more information, contact Mary Herzog at 949-494-3451 or mlhe...@cox.net.  

 

Directions

from Los Angeles East or Downtown (closer to I-5) Take the 5 south to the Laguna Canyon Rd./133 South exit. Follow it all the way to the T-end at the beach and go Left on the Pacific Coast Highway, follow to the fourth stop light and go Left on CLEO St. (you will see a Ralph's Supermarket) Go one block and turn right on Glenneyre, then immediately left into the church parking lot. The dance space is through a small archway and up the stairs of the main building and then on your left.

 

from Los Angeles West or beach cities (closer to 405) Take 405 South to 73 south, exit MacArthur. Go Left on Pacific Coast Highway, continue through downtown Laguna. Take a left at Cleo St. Go one block and turn right on Glenneyre, then immediately left into the church parking lot. The dance space is up the small stairwell in the main building and on your left.

 

from San Diego

Take the I-5 north just past San Clemente (55 miles approx.) Take the BEACH CITIES exit, Continue straight off that exit for approx. 10 miles on PCH.

You will then be in Laguna Beach. Eventually you go past stoplights at Diamond, Cress, and Thalia Streets. Take a RIGHT at the next stoplight which is Cleo St. Go one block and turn right on Glenneyre, then immediately left into the church parking lot. The dance space is up the small stairwell in the main building and on your left.

 

 

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