Immerse Yourself In Movement!
New York City Summer Dance Intensive - July 14-20 2008
With Valerie Green/Dance Entropy
At Green Space Studio
The schedule for the week will be as folows:
Monday
10 - 11:30 Modern Dance Technique
11:30 - 1 Choreography: Inspiration to Create Outside the Box
1 - 2 Lunch Break
2 - 4 Performance in Action
Tuesday
10 - 11:30 Modern Dance Technique
11:30 - 1 Pilates for Dancers
1 - 2 Lunch Break
2 - 4 Performance in Action
Wednesday
10 - 11:30 Modern Dance Technique
11:30- 1 Choreography: Inspiration to Create Outside the Box
1 - 2 Lunch Break
2 - 4 Performance in Action
Thursday
10 - 11:30 Modern Dance Technique
11:30 - 1 Pilates for Dancers
1 - 2 Lunch Break
2 - 4 Performance in Action
Friday
10 - 11:30 Modern Dance Technique
11:30 - 1 Choreography: Inspiration to Create Outside the Box
1 - 2 Lunch Break
2 - 4 Performance in Action
Saturday
10 - 11:30 Yoga
11:30 - 2 Performance in Action
Sunday
10 - 11:30 Modern Dance Technique
1 - 3 Final Showing/Reception
Dance Entropy hopes to invite a new member(s) to the company by the end of this intensive!
Will it be you?
Class Descriptions:
Modern Dance Technique(taught daily by Valerie Green)
This technique class highlights movement that follows the logic of the body’s innate spirals and bone rhythms. The beginning of class starts with a series of floor exercises designed to awaken the feet, spine, center and pelvis. Standing center work focuses on proper alignment to support technical exercises that strengthen and train the body to execute healthy, organized, and clear movement. The class culminates in rhythmical, full-bodied across the floor movement combinations that incorporate the use of turns, jumps, working in and out of the floor, detailed gestures, and diverse dynamics. Dancers gain the ability to move quickly with efficient ease, as well as move slow with a strong intent. Additionally we work on developing expressive movement with a dramatic purpose, connecting an inner emotional state through physicality.
Choreography: Inspiration to Create Outside the Box
This workshop shares valuable creative movement exercises and tools that stimulate the mind and body to generate movement ideas outside ones regular tendencies and consciousness. The artists will be in a nurturing environment where they will be guided to further discover, develop and shape their own unique movement conceptions.
Performance in Action:
Over the course of the week Valerie Green will direct and shape a short work pulling together the week’s phrases, explorations, and choreographic studies. This workshop allows the opportunity for intensive participants to put new skills learned over the course of the week into action while working on performance quality. This work will be performed in the intensive final showing.
Pilates for Dancers:
A class to strengthen the body that combines elements of foot training,pilates mat, and floor barre exercises. The class concludes with an adagio practicing the themes of the day.
Yoga:
A rejuvenating yoga class positioned towards the end of the intensive to restore energy at the end of hard week’s work.
Photo by: Sharon Harsa
