10/01/2012
October at Philly PARD
Technique Class
Tuesdays 10am-noon Olive Prince
Wednesday 6pm-8pm Katherine Kiefer Stark
Thursdays 10am-Noon Shannon Murphy
Olive Prince
Tuesdays October 2nd-30th
10am - 12noon / $8
Class Description: My education philosophy is centered upon the belief that teaching is an art form. I construct my lessons with craft and intention to develop academic and artistic excellence that honors both the product and the process of learning. I approach students as whole beings. As dancers, performers, choreographers, and scholars, students are asked to engage with the course content, their lived experiences and the social constructs in which they live.
Katherine Kiefer Stark
Wednesdays 6pm-8pm Oct 3rd-31st
6pm-8pm / $8
Class Description: Blending Kline Technique, Safety Release Technique, and release technique Katherine’s class is an energetic exploration of movement from the inside out. Emphasis is placed on the initiation of the movement and the path the various body parts take in space to discover how one’s own body moves within the movement. We embrace the space through phrases that move in and out of the floor and carry us in and out of balance. Class begins quietly and gradually builds in complexity, culminating in a dynamic phrase. Sleeves and kneepads or long pants are recommended.
Shannon Murphy
Thursdays October 4th-25th
10am-noon / $8
Class Description: Shannon Murphy is a level 3 Franklin Method educator and weaves imagery, anatomy and FM pedagogy int her contemporary movement practice . Using the body's tensegrity, we practice efficiency, physical exertion, and coordination. Shannon believes in being "present in the practice" and asks participants to maintain a balance between internal and external awareness and technical and qualitative movement. Shannon volleys between personal investigation and guided phrase work and offers insights to discover a new pallet of dynamic physicality. The use of weight shifting and changing surface areas will often lead us to vigorous floor work, please bring knee pads.
Improvisation at Philly PARD
Manfred Fischbeck
Mondays (Weekly) NEW TIME!!!
7:30 – 9:30pm / $8
Dance In The Moment: An intermediate to advanced dance improvisation and composition class with live music. The course is dedicated to the processes of research, creation and performance of new solo or group works in dance and dance theater. Manfred Fischbeck is the Artistic Director of Group Motion Dance Company and Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of the Arts. Fischbeck leads the class in collaboration with experienced Philadelphia contemporary music players.
Contact Improv Jam
Facilitated by Loren Groenendaal and Benjamin Pierce
Thursdays (Weekly)
7 – 10pm / $5 - $10, sliding scale
"Contact Improv is a movement form where dancers move to follow the play of touch. Gravity and the floor are constant partners. Human touch unites the forces that act upon the body with the sensations they produce within the body." -Steve Paxton
A jam is a creative space for open improvisation, governed by mutual respect and awareness. A jam is an opportunity to play, to research, to experiment, to express, to work it out, to connect with others. Dancing alone, in duets, or in groups, we stretch our capacity to listen and lead as we follow the dance. Newcomers welcome!
NEW!!! Yoga at Philly PARD NEW!!!
New! PARD yoga every Monday and Wednesday @ 10:30am
Ongoing starting October.
Christina Gesualdi Mondays 10:30-Noon $8
Nicole Bindler Wednesdays 10:30am-Noon $8
Yoga for everyone taught by dancers!
Christina Gesualdi Mondays 10:30-Noon $8
We'll take the vigor of a regular yoga practice (the kind where you sweat/om/and do lots of push-up looking things) and channel it while experimenting with various ways of busting open any assumptions that we've made about our breath, alignment, sequencing, imagery, and stance on "yoga" in general. How can we make our attention to sensation and curiosity do "push ups"? Is this class for you: If you are a dancer, you will understand more of the images and theories we will be testing cause they come from a soft/sensing body holistic approach. If you are a yogi, this may also be true. And you will definitely be familiar with the postures and sequences. If you are none of the above, you are still welcome. A beginner/basic background in yoga is encouraged, but other than that, the class will be more based on willingness to experiment than flexibility or endurance. We will negotiate this "yoga thing", and look at it as a practice, a way to de-stress, a way to cross train, a way to stay regular, etc. This class will likely compliment Nicole Bindler's class on Wednesday!
Nicole Bindler Wednesdays 10:30am-Noon $8
Body-Mind Centering® (BMC) Yoga is the study of Embodied Anatomy and Developmental Movement, experientially through the practice of Yoga. We will explore our different body systems (muscle, bone, connective tissue, fluids, organs, endocrine, breath, nervous,) their different qualities and functions through yoga postures and movement. We will investigate Ontogenetic Development as it relates to movement patterning, senses, perception and the reflexes. All levels of experience are welcome. Come as you are and we'll broaden your edges a bit. This class emphasizes a sense of curiosity and play as we find our unique alignment within yoga postures. BMC Yoga is for folks who want to gain ease and efficiency within their yoga practice and gain kinesthetic awareness through a slow, deep, student focused class. Nicole Bindler has an extensive movement and somatic education, including a BA in dance from Hampshire College, a degree in Muscular Therapy from the Muscular Therapy Institute and a certificate in Embodied Anatomy Yoga from the School for Body-Mind Centering. In February of 2013, she will complete her certification in Embodied Developmental Movement and Yoga at the School for Body-MInd Centering. She also has many years of study and practice in Myofasial Bodywork, Pilates, Feldenkrais and Craniosacral Therapy, including 50 hrs of study with Tom Myers in Anatomy Trains. She is certified by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork, a Member of the American Massage Therapy Association and a member of the Body-Mind Centering® Association. She has taught Somatics for dancers at the University of the Arts; Therapeutic Bodywork at the Massage Arts Center of Philadelphia; Anatomy for Yoga Alliance certified Yoga Teacher Trainings throughout Philadelphia; workshops in Contact Improvisation, Performance Practice, Yoga and Experiential Anatomy throughout the U.S., Argentina and at International Contact Festival Freiburg, Germany. She has a private bodywork practice in South Philly. http://nicolebindler.com/
Philly PARD at Mt. Vernon Dance Space
1720 Mt. Vernon Street
Street Parking Available
Accessible from the Spring Garden Septa Stop
(3 short blocks north, between 17th and 18th streets)