Arturo Fernandez/ LINES Contemporary Ballet
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¡FLACC! Fridays Teaching series in september 2015
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Contemporary Dance/Aesthetics and Practice with Master teachers from the SF Bay Area and LA!
Rogelio Lopez/Modern Release
Liz Durán Boubion/ Contact Improv and Modern
Emmeline Gonzalez-Beban/Ballet Folklóriko: Calabezeadas
Arturo Fernandez/ Contemporary Ballet
CatherinMarie Davalos/Modern Dance
Zari Le'on/Contemporary Vernacular
Diana Lara/Somatics
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Friday September 4
10-11:30am- Adv. Modern Release with Rogelio Lopez Class with Rogelio will focus on momentum and the ability to direct and re-direct the same momentum at any given time for a motional and emotional effect. This technique class will have an emphasis on alignment of the skeletal structure and the freedom that alignment allows for expansive and dynamic movement. Emphasis is placed on the movement and articulation of the torso and how material is threaded through the center of the body to the extremities. There is a lot of repetition of material and re-enforcement of conceptual ideas with a focus on breath, dynamics, and athleticism. The skeletal structure is not separated from the muscularity of the movement but both work together to generate the ability to ride momentum and falling as a means of traveling. Rogelio Lopez has earned his BA in Theater Arts and Dance from CSU Fresno and his MFA in dance at CSU Long Beach. Rogelio has had the pleasure to work with wonderful choreographers such as, David Dorfman, Bill Young, Joe Goode, Terry O’Connor, and Andrea Woods, among others. Besides dance, Rogelio studied theatrical scenic, lighting, and costume design and enjoys drawing and painting. He has won two Lester Horton awards for best performance in a small ensemble and set design for Girl Falling Toward the Sky, choreographed by Keith Jonhson. Rogelio is presently in Keith Johnson Dance Company, and currently a faculty at Cerritos Community College and Loyola Marymount University. Rogelio is also the assistant Technical Director for the Martha B. Knoebel Dance Theater at CSU Long Beach. 11:30-1:30- All levels Contact Improvisation with Liz Durán Boubion Contact Improvisation is a dance practice with 2 or more people staying connected through at least one point of physical contact. Learn tools and resources of weight sharing, active and passive listening, giving and receiving support and following the flow and momentum of the movement without a prescribed vocabulary. Learn to move in and out of the floor safely, pick up a few specific partnering CI pathways and use the extra 1/2 hour to explore and jam. CI can both push our social boundaries and also create a safe, playful and neutral ground to explore what is possible in the moment. People often feel more integrated as a whole through the experience of contact improv as a form that invites creativity, connection, physical risk, playfulness and expanded awareness through the language of touch. After a high impact sweaty class with Rogelio, change into a dry shirt and stay for CI ! Liz Duran Boubion, MFA, RSMT is the Artistic Director of the Piñata Dance Collective, a Co-founder of ¡FLACC! and a Registered Somatic Therapist. She has been a dance-theater artist for over 20 years, and holds a MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts from California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), a B.A. in Dance from Cal State University Long Beach and is a certified practitioner of the Tamalpa Life-Art Process. Liz has performed dances in the U.S. Germany, and Mexico, traversing nature, alternative gallery spaces, and the proscenium stage. She has taught as a guest artist at CSUEB, SFSU, St. Mary’s College, UCSC, Lines BFA program, Cultural Central Barrio San Diego, Guadalajara, MX, and The Regenerative Design Institute in Bolinas, Ca. See more: www.lizboubion.org Friday September 11 10am-11:30am- Int. Modern Release with Liz Durán Boubion The class offers a thorough warm-up from the ground to standing, , offering somatic floor-work, conditioning exercises, improvisational experimentations, across the floor and center movement phrases. The combinations are short, easy to remember and repeated many times to increase stamina, cardio and dance dance dance! The movement is rooted in post-modern, release technique, classical ballet and has evolved into a unique vocabulary developed from years of improvisation, performance and musical collaboration. The choreography is full-bodied, fluid and dynamic. Prepare to move in and out of the floor, jump, fly and sweat! Liz Duran Boubion, MFA, RSMT is the Artistic Director of the Piñata Dance Collective, a Co-founder of ¡FLACC! and a Registered Somatic Therapist. She has been a dance-theater artist for over 20 years, and holds a MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts from California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), a B.A. in Dance from Cal State University Long Beach and is a certified practitioner of the Tamalpa Life-Art Process. Liz has performed dances in the U.S. Germany, and Mexico, traversing nature, alternative gallery spaces, and the proscenium stage. She has taught as a guest artist at CSUEB, SFSU, St. Mary’s College, UCSC, Lines BFA program, Cultural Central Barrio San Diego, Guadalajara, MX, and The Regenerative Design Institute in Bolinas, Ca. See more: www.lizboubion.org 11:30-1:pm- Beg. Ballet Folklóriko: Calabezeadas with Emmeline Gonzalez-Beban This class will give participants a taste of Calabazeadas (AKA Calabaceado), an upbeat folk dance style from the Mexican state of Baja California. Emerging in the late 20th century, Calabazeadas is a dance form of the modern-day vaquero which has recently been adopted into Ballet Folklórico repertoire. Danced to Norteño music, it incorporates energetic stomps, scuffs, kicks, and jumps in highly percussive combinations. Emmeline Gonzalez-Beban is a dance artist currently based in Berkeley, CA. She discovered her love for dance at the age of four when she began studying Ballet Folklórico Mexicano from Maestra Elena Robles in San Jose, and has since gone on to study a diverse range of dance forms. In 2010, she was awarded by the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts as a YoungArts scholar in the World Dance category for Ballet Folklórico (featuring traditional Son Jarocho dance of Veracruz). In May of 2014, Emmeline received a B.F.A. in Dance from The Ohio State University, and subsequently returned to the Bay Area to immerse herself in the dance scene as a performer, creator, and teacher. She has created and shown choreographic works through various community outlets, The Garage SF, Shawl-Anderson Dance Center, LEVYdance, the OSU Department of Dance, and the American Dance Festival. Friday September 18 10-11:30am- Int./Adv. Contemporary Ballet with Arturo Fernandez The class will be based in classical ballet but will take it a bit further. It will not necessarily be about what you're doing but how you're doing it. The class will enhance your spirit and challenge your body and mind. It will be physical and thought provoking. Students should be familiar with ballet enough to follow along. As the current ballet Master for Alonzo King’s Lines Contemporary Ballet and having danced for 11 years with ODC Dance among several other nationally recognized companies, Arturo brings a highly refined knowledge to his craft and engages dancers with his stylized art of movement the moment class begins at the barre and finishes with grand allegro. 11:30-1pm- Beg. Modern Dance with CatherineMarie Davalos This class incorporates Bartenieff and Laban principles to support an efficient and healthy moving body. Class begins on the floor exploring the patterns of Total Body Connectivity. A standing warm-up follows enhanced with short movement phrases that culminate in a mini dance. The class is built on breath and momentum. CatherineMarie Davalos is our Production Manager and co-founder of ¡FLACC! She is a Chicana/Italian choreographer questioning heteronormativity using a feminist, Latina, and Chicana perspective. Her company, Davalos Dance Company has been presented at various venues across the country since its inception in 1994 and has received funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Zellerbach Family Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and the Faculty Development Office of Saint Mary’s College of California. During the day, Davalos is the Director of Dance at Saint Mary’s College which includes a traditional undergraduate program for young dancers, the LEAP program for professional dancers, and a graduate division which offers an MFA in Dance: Creative Practice, and an MFA in Dance: Design and Production. Info: davalosdance.org and/or stmarys-ca.edu/mfadance Friday September 25 10-11:30am- All levels Contemporary Vernacular with Zari Le’on "Walking It Out" Celebrate the different ways to walk your walk and strut your stuff. In this heat generating class we will be walking it out to continuous musical accompaniment while moving continuously across the floor and exploring how the simple act of walking evolves into vernacular dance. This class is for everyone. Zari Le’on, MFA is our Social Media Manager and co-founder of ¡FLACC! She created Zari Le’on Dance Theater in 2002 as a response to spiritual dilemmas facing women at the new millennium. Zari is a 3rd generation Black/Mexican/Greek mashup and her work is a reflection of her background. Zari works in the style of Contemporary Vernacular which draws from her extensive experience in Dunham technique, Ballet, Jazz, Modern and Yoga. ZLDT has performed and choreographed nationally and internationally with residencies at TAC, Counterpulse, and CHIME where she was mentored by political theater activist Rhodessa Jones. Zari holds degrees from Mills College (2004) in Ethnic Studies and Dance and from University of Michigan (2012) where she was awarded a Rackham Merit Fellowship to pursue her MFA in Dance. Most recently, her solo performance series "Salvation" premiered in Oakland in 2014. http://lovehatedance.wordpress.com/ 11:30-1pm- All levels Somatics/BMC with Diana Lara "Playing with the water in your body" This class will use elements of Body-Mind Centering® to experience the mind and quality of movement associated with some of the fluids of the body. Each fluid in the body (blood, lymph, cerebrospinal fluid, and synovial fluid) have differences in the proportion of cells vs. extracellular fluid, as well as differences in cell sizes that in some cases are related with the cell function. We will explore through touch and movement each of these fluids. Then we will move/dance using some phrases of movement based on the elements explored. We will dance in and out of the floor, and through the space with those phrases. But mostly we will have fun experiencing the mind and rhythms of the water in our bodies. (This is a mixed level class) Diana Lara, is a choreographer, dancer and educator from Honduras. She graduated from the choreography program of the Center for Research and Choreography at the Mexican National Institute of Fine Arts, and from the Somatic Research and Participatory Arts program at Moving-on-Center in Oakland. In 2011, she graduated from the Body-Mind Centering® certification program on Developmental Movement in Berkeley. She has taught Limon technique, and contemporary dance based on BMC elements at Centro Cultural Los Talleres in Mexico City, Universidad de las America in Puebla, and Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Honduras. She also has taught contact improvisation based on BMC elements at Counterpulse and in the 2014 West Coast Contact Festival. For more information visit: www.dianalara-somatics.com |
