:: conduit dance class descriptions

Raw Beginning w/ Eliza Larson
This energetic, contemporary modern dance class encourages students to find, feel, and use all parts of their body to reinvigorate their own sense of movement, and draws on a variety of techniques including modern, ballet, yoga, and Laban among others. Each class begins on the floor then gradually comes to standing. Juicy, full-bodied phrase work follows a warm up that emphasizes alignment, articulation, fluidity, core work, and fun.

Slow Intermediate Contemporary Technique w/ Gregg Bielemeier
This class offers a careful approach to basic skills that increase range of motion, body awareness, coordination, and the capacity for movement memory while incorporating the use of breath to promote ease of motion. With a focus on enhancing sound body mechanics, strength, flexibility as well as acquiring fundamental skills and technique, class is designed for the less experienced dance student, those returning to dance after an absence, or those with other forms of movement experience. Students are encouraged to attend on a regular basis, but drop-ins are allowed.

Intermediate Contemporary Technique w/ Gregg Bielemeier
This class explores a unique and idiosyncratic style of movement that is the product of strong technique, experimentation and a sense of humor. Class begins with a standing warm-up that incorporates breath, release and ease in the joints as well as strength, line and form. With an understanding and application of these elements, along with weight and direction, the result is one of whole-bodied dancing where the student is capable of executing simple to elaborate, loose-limbed, space-consuming movement.

Repertory Workgroup
Over a compact and collaborative rehearsal process this special workgroup session is designed to offer dancers a focused experience creating, practicing and performing. Performance of the work at the end of the session is optional but encouraged. Following his Saturday technique class, choreographer Gregg Bielemeier will teach movement sections and offer research experiments, including partnering, ensemble, and small group work. Each session will build on the previous weeks materials to refine skills, performance quality and unity. Students will be asked to remember movement specific to their part in the constructed work.

Contact Improv Jam
Contact Improvisation is a physical investigation into gravity, momentum, and weight sharing between two or more bodies. Dancers move with constant attentiveness to their own bodies, impulses, and trajectories, while listening and responding authentically to their partners. The form encourages mindful awareness and mutual exchange. The Tuesday Night Jam is an open, informal space to which dancers of all types and backgrounds are invited to explore their bodies in a kinesthetic relationship to other bodies. The jam is not facilitated, but beginners are welcome and can receive an informal introduction to the form.

class schedule :: descriptions :: workshops :: faculty ::		conduit dance class descriptions Raw Beginning w/ Eliza Larson This energetic, contemporary modern dance class encourages students to find, feel, and use all parts of their body to reinvigorate their own sense of movement, and draws on a variety of techniques including modern, ballet, yoga, and Laban among others. Each class begins on the floor then gradually comes to standing. Juicy, full-bodied phrase work follows a warm up that emphasizes alignment, articulation, fluidity, core work, and fun. Slow Intermediate Contemporary Technique w/ Gregg Bielemeier This class offers a careful approach to basic skills that increase range of motion, body awareness, coordination, and the capacity for movement memory while incorporating the use of breath to promote ease of motion. With a focus on enhancing sound body mechanics, strength, flexibility as well as acquiring fundamental skills and technique, class is designed for the less experienced dance student, those returning to dance after an absence, or those with other forms of movement experience. Students are encouraged to attend on a regular basis, but drop-ins are allowed. Intermediate Contemporary Technique w/ Gregg Bielemeier This class explores a unique and idiosyncratic style of movement that is the product of strong technique, experimentation and a sense of humor. Class begins with a standing warm-up that incorporates breath, release and ease in the joints as well as strength, line and form. With an understanding and application of these elements, along with weight and direction, the result is one of whole-bodied dancing where the student is capable of executing simple to elaborate, loose-limbed, space-consuming movement. Repertory Workgroup Over a compact and collaborative rehearsal process this special workgroup session is designed to offer dancers a focused experience creating, practicing and performing. Performance of the work at the end of the session is optional but encouraged. Following his Saturday technique class, choreographer Gregg Bielemeier will teach movement sections and offer research experiments, including partnering, ensemble, and small group work. Each session will build on the previous weeks materials to refine skills, performance quality and unity. Students will be asked to remember movement specific to their part in the constructed work. Contact Improv Jam Contact Improvisation is a physical investigation into gravity, momentum, and weight sharing between two or more bodies. Dancers move with constant attentiveness to their own bodies, impulses, and trajectories, while listening and responding authentically to their partners. The form encourages mindful awareness and mutual exchange. The Tuesday Night Jam is an open, informal space to which dancers of all types and backgrounds are invited to explore their bodies in a kinesthetic relationship to other bodies. The jam is not facilitated, but beginners are welcome and can receive an informal introduction to the form.