DANCEbank Fall session
Saturdays, 11am-1pm
class costs $12. Sept. 26, October 3, 10: Roxanne Steinberg Oct. 17, 24: Kevin Williamson
(no class Oct. 31st) November 7, 14, 21: Neil Greenberg December 5, 12: Sheetal Gandhi
classes are held at Metabolic Studio/Farmlab
1745 North Spring Street, #4
directions below and at www.farmlab.org <http://www.farmlab.org/>
Sept. 26, October 3, 10: Roxanne Steinberg
Introduction to Body Weather Laboratory
Body Weather Laboratory is a research forum open to anyone interested in investigating the body within different environments. Just like the weather, our bodies are constantly changing and our relationship to the environment is in a state of interactive flux. Through a thorough reexamination of the body and movement, the training supports work in various practices and disciplines by developing presence and deeper connectivity to the world around us. It consists of: M.B. - Rigorous mind/body, muscle/bone training, Rhythmical and dynamic, it develops coordination and endurance. Manipulations - A series of specific stretching and relaxation exercises concerned with breathing and alignment. The work is done in couples, exchanging passive and active roles. Laboratory Explorations - designed to sharpen focus and extend the scope of awareness through the body. The work encompasses sensitivity training, discovery of movement from images and working with partners to deepen investigation and develop understanding. Roxanne Steinberg discovered Body Weather Laboratory at Bennington College while training in dance and improvisation and went on to study in Paris, New York and Japan. She began teaching Body Weather in L.A. in 1988 and has worked and performed with Oguri since 1990. Roxanne’s choreography and dance has been presented worldwide with composers and musicians Yas Kaz, Paul Chavez, Kenta Nagai, Tatsuya Nakatani, Leon Mobley, Myra Melford & Alex Cline and dancers Min Tanaka and Amagatsu of Sankai Juku. She was presented in Flower of the Season, a performance series and mentorship program she now co-directs at the Electric Lodge in Venice. She received a Durfee Arts grant, 2006 for her piece at Dance Conversations at the Flea in New York where she has presented her work each year since. Her performance with Oguri in a major production, Caddy! Caddy! Caddy! William Faulkner Dance Project premiered at the REDCAT and will be performed at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, November 2009. Working at the Metabolic Studio in Los Angeles, dance is her language to coordinate space and community. She is an artist-in-residence at the Electric Lodge in Venice where she continues to teach Body Weather Laboratory.
DIRECTIONS: 1745 North Spring Street, #4, Los Angeles
The building is a warehouse and is literally UNDER the Spring St. Bridge, and more like it's on Baker @ Aurora....!
From the 110, exit Solano and turn R, go down the hill to Broadway.
L on Broadway. Cross the bridge. At the intersection of 18th, Broadway, Pasadena, make a hard right onto North Spring (it should feel like you are doubling back).
Cross a second bridge. At the end of the bridge make a quick R @ Aurora. You are now next to the warehouse! Walk under the bridge through the urban planter garden. Metabolic Studios is right there.
From the 10:
Exit Alameda
take Alameda all the way to China Town
veer R onto Spring St.
Go past the park (to your left) and continue towards the bridge. One block before the bridge is Baker ST. make a left onto very crumbly road. Take to end (about 2 blocks). You are now parked behind the Metabolic Studios. You can walk through the workshop, then the garage to get to the studio.
thanks.