FREY FAUST
1)CA January 17-21 2pm-4pm $80. 2)Contact Improv JANUARY 17, 19, 20 4PM-6PM $48.

1) The Axis Syllabus-Universal Motor Principles TM Chronological Architecture (CA)

CA is the quintessential principle through which we harness gravitational forces to our advantage. In this workshop you will Learn the significance of functional support and practise applied biomechanics for your physical well being in all walks of life and art, as well as dance your heart out. "In order to lose your balance you begin to slide down the vertical plane, either by removing support from underneath, tipping off center (rotation), or by gradually relaxing supporting muscles(extensors). If we change the angle of our fall from a collison course with the earth to a curved ramp, its kinetic energy gives us the potential to run, turn and fly.

2) Contact Improv

Frey Faust’s first influence was Shekhinah Mountainwater, a known author and leading figure in the women’s spiritual movement of America. He worked under his mother’s direction from age 8 to age 15, performing with her as a pantomime-dancer-actor. Nita Little, co-creator of Contact Improvisation, initiated him to its liberating concepts at the age of 14. After studying with Marcel Marceau, he returned to California to pursue his personal education through the practice of Afro-Haitian dance, Aikido, Capoiera and Percussion. In 1980, he decided to try his luck in New York. Ten years later, having worked with some of the best of the NY movers and shakers such as David Parsons, Donald Byrd, Randy Warshaw, Gina Buntz, Ohad Nahirin, Janet Panetta, Meredith Monk, Merce Cunningham and Stephen Petronio, he became the artist in residence at the Werk-statt, Düsseldorf, Germany for two years. There he was able, with the generous support of the German government, to create six solos and three evening-length works and to begin the consolidation of his pedagogical ideas. He is the author of the book and the originator of the Axis Syllabus/Universal Motor Principles TM; a method for teaching dance through which he aspires to assist his students to deepen their understanding and use of nature's gift to us.