Philly PARD

Philly PARD Philly PARD (Performance Arts Research & Development) Programs to create, discuss, analyze and produce dance performances. Through its partnership with Mt.

Composition, improvisation, choreographic process, and technique classes. Philly PARD was founded in April 2010 and is a laboratory for the investigation of dance and movement-based art forms. Philly PARD exists to serve and support the professional dance community of the greater Philadelphia area by providing teaching, educational and performance opportunities. Vernon Dance Space, PARD is able to provide dance professionals with fifty percent of the profits of each class they teach or performance they present in.

11/29/2014

Mt. Vernon Dance Space closed in May 2014 and we have not found a new home.

02/02/2014

February at Philly PARD
Technique Classes
Tuesday 10am-noon with EVALINA (Wally) CARBONELL
Improvisation
Sunday 1-3pm Contact Improvisation with Loren Groenendaal
Monday 7:30 – 9pm Dance In The Moment with Manfred Fischbeck
Thursday 7 – 10pm Contact Improv Jam Facilitated by Loren Groenendaal, Megan Wilson Stern and Benjamin Pierce

Technique at Philly PARD

EVALINA (Wally) CARBONELL
Tuesdays February 4th – 25th
10am - 12noon / $10
Class Description: My class focuses on moving the whole body through space, using spinal motions as a jumping off-point. Borrowing influences from Gyrotonic, Gyrokinesis, ballet, modern, and jazz, I aim to use the body as a tool for expression. Expect to arch, curl, twist, bend, spiral, undulate, find your center, and then depart from there; freezing shapes, and then flowing through space, alternately. We will begin with a thorough full-body warm-up, incorporating some improvisation, core strengthening, and stretching, and move on to learn a phrase, which we will then experiment with, using different music and motivational jumping-off points. We will emphasize flow and groove, connecting to our breath, the music, and the space and people around us, using the dance as a vehicle for communication.


Improvisation at Philly PARD

Contact Improvisation with Loren Groenendaal
Sundays February 2nd – 23rd
1-3pm / $10
Class Description: Loren is interested in both the pleasure and the science of contact improvisation (CI). Overall, her class will increase versatility and skills, build trust, and develop a sense of play. The classes will include both concrete exercises and open explorations to generate access and understanding of CI principles. We will investigate using more or less tone to have either a softer or more structured body. We will practice modulating our own flow, ranging from free to more controlled for dancing that is both carefree and safe. Loren will lead movement experiences that will encourage different qualitative states to facilitate varied movement capabilities, including tuning our listening, and gradating our weight. The classes will support the fun playful game of the dance and build understanding of the functionality, architecture, and physics of bodies dancing together. We can be nerds and have fun at the same time! This class will engage students in principles of movement that allow for amazing things to happen.

Manfred Fischbeck
Mondays (Ongoing Weekly)
7:30 – 9:30pm / $10
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, Megan Wilson Stern and Benjamin Pierce
Thursdays (Weekly)
7 – 10pm / $5 - $10, sliding scale
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!
"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

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)

11/27/2013

No Class Thanksgiving, have a wonderful Holiday!
This Week at Philly PARD
December 1st – 8th
Technique Classes
Tuesday 10am-noon with Katherine Kiefer Stark
Thursday 10am-Noon with Scott McPheeters
Improvisation
Sunday 1-3pm Contact Improvisation with Megan Wilson Stern
Monday 7:30 – 9pm Dance In The Moment with Manfred Fischbeck
Thursday 7 – 10pm Contact Improv Jam Facilitated by Loren Groenendaal, Megan Wilson Stern and Benjamin Pierce

Technique at Philly PARD

Katherine Kiefer Stark
Tuesdays December 3rd – 17th
10am - 12noon / $10
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.

Scott McPheeters
Thursdays December 5th – 19th
10am-noon / $10
Class Description: This class will explore dynamic shifts in weight, skillful abandon, and energetic pathways in movement.... among other things like lots of full-bodied, integrated dancing. Please bring a long sleeved shirt and knee pads if you like them. We'll be moving in and out the floor quite a bit. Come dance with me :)


Improvisation at Philly PARD

Contact Improvisation with Megan Wilson Stern
Sundays December 1st -15th
(no class on the 22nd and the 29th Happy Holidays)
1-3pm / $10
Class Description: In practicing and teaching Contact, I am interested in tuning sensitivity and reflexes so that we can meet the unexpected safely and with a sense of delight. I wonder how we can be ready for surprise and how we can feel empowered to surprise our partners. In class this month we will work with some simple forms and fundamental exercises. By doing this we will not only work on building a solid foundation for safe and communicative dancing, but will also examine the question “what is really fundamental in contact improvisation?” We will see what happens when we view the form through various lenses, simplifying and narrowing our focus to see how subtleties can open to new possibilities. Then we’ll use curiosity, delight, and maybe even mischievousness to expand into dynamic and playful improvisations.

Manfred Fischbeck
Mondays (Ongoing Weekly)
7:30 – 9:30pm / $10
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, Megan Wilson Stern and Benjamin Pierce
Thursdays (Weekly)
7 – 10pm / $5 - $10, sliding scale
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!
"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

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)

11/22/2013

CURT HAWORTH
MOVEMENT AND PERFORMANCE
opens tonight:

Onliest

November 22-­24, 2013
Friday and Saturday at 8pm
Sunday at 6pm
Admission $20 general, $10 dance pass/senior, $5 student

The performances will take place at the Mt. Vernon Dance Space
1720 Mt Vernon Street Philadelphia Pa 19130.
Audience reservations: phillypard@gamil.com or call (646) 221-6120

Choreographed and directed by
Curt Haworth
in collaboration with the performers, Onliest draws from text by:
Edvard Munch and Sondra Fraleigh
with music created and performed by Julius Masri
video created by John Luna
and with performers:
Khadija Ahmaddiya, Bethany Formica, Gabrielle Giordano, Leanne Grieger, Adrian Plascencia,
and Curt Haworth.

“Existence is not static. It moves always just beyond our grasp. It has no specific shape, no texture, no taste (because it is nowhere). Yet we assume it is something. We can’t see it (because it is everywhere), and we feel its perpetual ‘dance’ inside us.” Sondra Fraleigh

11/03/2013

This Week at Philly PARD
November 4th – 10th
Technique Classes
Tuesday 10am-noon with Eleanor Goudie-Averill
Thursday 10am-Noon with Jumatatu Poe
Improvisation
Sunday 1-3pm Contact Improvisation with Jungwoong Kim
Monday 7:30 – 9pm Dance In The Moment with Manfred Fischbeck
Thursday 7 – 10pm Contact Improv Jam Facilitated by Loren Groenendaal, Megan Wilson Stern and Benjamin Pierce

Technique at Philly PARD

Eleanor Goudie-Averill
Tuesdays November 5th – 26th
10am - 12noon / $10
Class Description: I am invested in dance practice as a way to expand the boundaries of thought processes and create deep and lasting knowledge within the body. Using a variety of spinal exercises that breathe out of initial somatic floor work, we'll warm from the proximal to the distal and make use of momentum in more complex and physically demanding movement phrases. As dancers we get to create art daily! Ultimately, I would love this physical process of art making to integrate our bodies, awakening us as critically thinking and feeling organisms, able to learn and remember a variety of phrase material and analyze movement in depth … even while we are in motion!

Jumatatu Poe
Thursdays November 7th – 21st (no class thanksgiving)
10am-noon / $10
Class Description: idioSomatics is about opening up the body and activating all of the senses to heighten our responsiveness to our dance/performance experience. We identify the physical forces acting on our bodies in movement at a given time, and decide how much control we will exert over this, how out of control we will allow ourselves to become. We clarify and manipulate the energy that we create ourselves. We examine how we partner with the environment (the floor, the walls, other people). And we use energy and focus to connect ourselves with our environment and the people with whom we share the experience. Our goal is to create a deeper sense of performance in the body, in the energy. Our goal is to have a full, authentically communicative experience; with our classmates, with ourselves.

Improvisation at Philly PARD

Contact Improvisation with Jungwoong Kim
Sundays November 3rd – 24th
1-3pm / $10
Class Description: I embrace the practice of contact improvisation both as play and as survival. In my classes whether dancing solo, with a partner or as part of an ensemble, special attention is be placed on becoming comfortable in the body so to be alert, ready, and at ease with shifting one's habits and taking new risks. I use evocative images that serve as metaphors to provoke the imagination of the dancers and offer an anchoring theme that improvisations can depart from and return to. This month's classes will focus on understanding the timing in each partnership and in the group. We will start with a group warm-up for better tuning the body into inner rhythms while at times in synchronicity and relationship to other participants. We will explore techniques on how to sense the intervals between actions and use them to experience continuos dance that recycles itself, stays alive over time.

Manfred Fischbeck
Mondays (Ongoing Weekly)
7:30 – 9:30pm / $10
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, Megan Wilson Stern and Benjamin Pierce
Thursdays (Weekly)
7 – 10pm / $5 - $10, sliding scale
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!
"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
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)

10/15/2013

CURT HAWORTH MOVEMENT AND PERFORMANCE
Presents:
Onliest

November 22-24, 2013
Friday and Saturday at 8pm
Sunday at 6pm
Admission $20 general, $10 dance pass/senior, $5 student

The performances will take place at the Mt. Vernon Dance Space
1720 Mt Vernon Street, Philadelphia PA, 19130
Audience reservations: phillypard@gmail.com or call (646) 221-6120

Choreographed and directed by
Curt Haworth
in collaboration with the performers Onliest draws from text by:
Edvard Munch and Sondra Fraleigh
with music created and performed by Julius Masri
and with performers
Khadija Ahmaddiya, Bethany Formica, Gabrielle Giordano, Leanne Grieger, Adrian Plascencia
and Curt Haworth

“Existence is not static. It moves always just beyond our grasp. It has no specific shape, no texture, no taste (because it is nowhere). Yet we assume it is something. We can’t see it (because it is everywhere), and we feel its perpetual ‘dance’ inside us.” Sondra Fraleigh

09/29/2013

This Week at Philly PARD
September 30th to October 1st
Classes start up again for Fall

Technique Classes
Tuesday 10am-noon with Eleanor Goudie-Averill
Thursday 10am-Noon with KC Chun-Manning
Improvisation
Sunday 1-3pm Contact Improvisation with Marion Ramirez
Monday 7:30 – 9pm Dance In The Moment with Manfred Fischbeck
Thursday 7 – 10pm Contact Improv Jam
Facilitated by Loren Groenendaal and Benjamin Pierce

Class Descriptions and details below

Technique at Philly PARD

Eleanor Goudie-Averill
Tuesdays October 1st – 29th
10am - 12noon / $10
Class Description: I am invested in dance practice as a way to expand the boundaries of thought processes and create deep and lasting knowledge within the body. Using a variety of spinal exercises that breathe out of initial somatic floor work, we'll warm from the proximal to the distal and make use of momentum in more complex and physically demanding movement phrases. As dancers we get to create art daily! Ultimately, I would love this physical process of art making to integrate our bodies, awakening us as critically thinking and feeling organisms, able to learn and remember a variety of phrase material and analyze movement in depth … even while we are in motion!

KC Chun-Manning
Thursdays October 3rd – 31st
10am-noon / $10
Class Description: Drawing from a diverse background of somatics, Alexander Technique, developmental movement and gymnastics, KC’s class emphasizes developing a sophisticated understanding of the head, neck and spine relationship as the primary guidance system of the body. Mining the language of spirals and the serpentine spine, the guided movement studies will ride the inner tensions of folding and twisting, only to find greater substance in the disentanglement, flight, rebound, and interconnectivity with others. The first half of the class will begin with floor work that investigates our bony architecture, ways of problem-solving and relationship with breath and gravity, that will translate into the fuller, more momentum-based movement in the second half. Incorporating lush, sweeping gestures with inverted ballet lines that require dancers to be assertive yet refined in their ex*****on, value is placed on increasing sensory and three-dimensional spatial awareness, along with experimenting with how one self-organizes and weathers these moments of instability.

Improvisation at Philly PARD

Contact Improvisation with Marion Ramirez
Sundays October 6th – 27th
1-3pm / $10
Class Description: Through the practice of Contact Improvisation I continue to learn how to be with others in the world. It teaches me how to recognize subtle impulses in my movement choices in relation to other dancer's choices. This attention to listening gives me the opportunity to enjoy the integrity of dancing meditatively as well as being totally taken by surprise.
In class we will practice efficient ways to move in and out of the ground by balancing muscle tone through the body and accessing our innate body coordination. This prepares us for riding momentum and flow while in physical contact with others. This month's classes will specially focus on activating the back of the body as a surface for sharing weight.

Manfred Fischbeck
Mondays (Ongoing Weekly) NEW TIME!!!
7:30 – 9:30pm / $10
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
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!
"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
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)

09/05/2013

Starting September 8th Contact Improvisation -
New Class ongoing Sundays 1-3pm
September with Greg Holt

Class description:
Contact improvisation is my favorite subject to teach, because it's such a fundamental problem. How do you deal with another person? I first approach this question indirectly, through geekily satisfying technical exercises and self-organization. Next, we will use behavior games and metaphor to generate a space of emergent social complexity- where fundamental tools will serve best.

Bio:
Gregory Holt teaches dance composition, research, and improvisation. influenced by somatic approaches, he combines these with a social view of the body inspired by popular education and seeks movement strategies specific to every unique moment. Games, improvisational
explorations, and a demand for rigorous self-direction make his workshops fun, diversely accessible, and full of shared virtuosity. He has taught at universities and festivals in the US and Europe. His movement research has been supported by the Research into the Unknown Residency in Budapest. He teaches Contact Improvisation in Philadelphia, and was a Live Arts Brewery Fellow through the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival.

06/10/2013

The Requisite Movers [TRM]
Presents
Wellspring Informal Performances
8pm Saturday June 15th
Witness new work by local Black femeale choreographers in a laid back setting. The various works, by Peaches Jones, Lela Aisha Jones, Deneane Richburg, and Jennifer Turnbull, are grounded in Diaspora physicalities, social issues, and literature.
Mount Vernon Dance Space/PARD
1720 Mt Vernon St. Philadelphia Pa
Tickets $5 at the door
Parking is limited please arrive half hour early to secure parking.

06/06/2013

Philly P.A.R.D
Mix Grille Series at Mt Vernon Dance Space. Presents
Patchwork June 29 at 8:00 pm
an evening of dance made up a variety of elements to craft a whole
created by:
Colleen Hooper Caitlin Quinn
Beau Hancock
Mt Vernon Dance Space 1720 Mt Vernon street – Philadelphia- PA 19130 Tickets $10 general, $5 dancepass/student/senior Limited seating! Reservations at:
phillypard@gmail.com
More info at: www.mtvernondancespace.com

05/22/2013

CURT HAWORTH
MOVEMENT AND PERFORMANCE
Preview of:
Onliest

8pm, May 31st and June 1st
Friday and Saturday
Mt. Vernon Dance Space
1720 Mt. Vernon St. Philadelphia PA

Conceived and directed by Curt Haworth
in collaboration with:
Katrina Atkin, Bethany Formica, Leanne Grieger, Gabrielle Giordano, Alessandra Delle Grotti
Music/Sound/Performance: Julius Masri

Produced by PhillyPard
Tickets only $10 general, $5 dancepass/student/senior
free to UARTs students
Limited seating! for reservations:
phillypard@gmail.com

Address

Philadelphia, PA
19130

Opening Hours

Tuesday 10am - 12pm
Thursday 10am - 12pm

Telephone

(215) 717-6117

Website

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Philadelphia-PA/Philly-PARD/364899066081, http://phillypa

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