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Winter Workshops
December 1, 2004
PANETTA MOVEMENT CENTER
214 W 29th St.
212 239-0831
In our ongoing effort to create a special and affordable
space for the nurturing and education of all types of
dancers we are proud to announce
CHRYSA PARKINSON FREY FAUST
CHRYSA PARKINSON December 27-31 1-4PM $100.
Performing Movement
5 days
10 participants
3 hours a day
requirements: performance experience, phrase material
This is a coaching workshop focused on the performance of
movement/motion. The day will be split into two parts. The
first half of the class will concentrate on identifyling
movement patterns (mostly through touch and partnered
exercises) in order to both profit from existent skills and
find new ways of moving. The second half of the class will
deal with performance questions - what's the affect of
movement, how does style intersect content, and how do
simple frames (costume/music/intent) change both the
viewers' and performers' perception of movement.
Participants should bring phrase material, be ready to
learn phrase material, and have an interest in working
collaboratively with people they don't know. Participants
will trade/share ideas and materials. The focus will be on
performance, not composition.
Chrysa Parkinson is a dancer and teacher in Brussels and
New York. This year she is performing with Deborah Hay(US),
Thomas Hauert/Zoo(BE), and Jonathan Burrows (UK). She has
been a member of Tere O'Connor Dance since 1986. Her
teaching is influenced by Irene Hultman, Jennifer Monson,
Barbara Mahler, Roseanne Spradlin, David Zambrano, and the
people with whom she is performing. Since 98, Chrysa has
been involved in an ongoing investigation of performance,
technique and improvisation with AT DeKeersmaker's company
Rosas, and with the training program P.A.R.T.S. She has
also taught Sasha Walz's company, Ultima Vez and at the
Bates Dance Festival, Impulstanz (Vienna), and at Movement
Research in NYC. In 1996 she received a Bessie (NY Dance
and Performance Award)
for sustained achievement.
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.
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