Featured Event of
the Week
Dance Workshop: Movement
Exploration and Emotion with Karin Moriarty
January 31, 2015 (Saturday)
6pm to 10pm
Dance Visions Studio, Cubberley Community Center
4000 Middlefield Rd, Palo Alto, California 9430
"If you are interested in becoming intimately familiar with your
own body dynamics, and those of others you interact with, socialize with, even
work with, I recommend you participate with full enthusiasm in her
class/workshop/retreat”
Shankar Hemmady
This brief presentation is an exception from the blog
guidelines, as 1-day minimum workshops and festivals are listed there. Dance
workshop with Karin Moriarty is a half-day workshop. However, in spite of the
4-hours framework, extreme emotional, physical, and spiritual satisfaction is
guaranteed.
Dance workshop: Movement Exploration and Emotion offering
you an evening of deep movement investigation and connections, including
* Contact Improvisation
* Modern Dance
* Imagery Work
* Music, Chocolate, and jam
Cost: $35 to $50 sliding scale (NOTAFLOF)
Notes:
* Please arrive early for registration.
* There is plenty of parking outside the studio. Please
use the North Entrance at Cubberley Center, the studio is located in the back.
About the Teacher
Karin Moriarty
holds a Dance degree from UC Berkeley’s Dramatics Art Department. She has been teaching and choreographing in
the Bay Area for the last two decades.
Her choreography is based on CI and ritual theater. Her most celebrated work was her piece Along
the River, which was set at the Andy Goldsworthy sculpture at Stanford
University in the summer of 2003 for the Museum’s special summer exhibit. Her teaching emphasizes the idea of magic and
how energy plays a role in the movement and language of the body.
Moriarty is the
Artistic Director of Dance-Is-It, a contact improvisation group based in Palo
Alto. She is currently a Harbin Jam
organizer/teacher and a regular teacher for the Berkeley Jam and the West Coast
Contact Improvisation Festival/JAM. She
also teaches both modern dance and contact improvisation at DanceVisions in PA,
Dance Odyssey in Santa Cruz, Ecstatic Dance in Palo Alto, and is a frequent
guest teacher at Stanford University (http://wccijam.org/wccijam-2014/teachers/karin-moriarty/).
About Contract Improvisation
Contact
Improvisation is a partner dance form based on the physical principles of
touch, momentum, shared weight, and most quintessentially - following a shared
point of contact. The form was founded in 1972 by Steve Paxton. Integrating his
background as a modern dancer and his studies in the martial art form Aikido,
Steve developed Contact Improv through explorations with his students and
colleagues at the time. This dance practice explores the skills of falling,
rolling, counterbalance, lifting using minimal effort, how to make ourselves
light when being lifted, centering and breathing techniques, and responsiveness
to our partners and surroundings (http://www.contactimprov.com/whatiscontactimprov.html).
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