Workshop/Audition with Mare Nostrum Elements

Movement Theater Workshop
Two Days ONLY!

May 2, 2010 & May 9, 2010
Sunday 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Mare Nostrum Elements is looking for eclectic and dynamic performers to participate in The Wave Within! Movement Theater training promotional video.

American actor/director Kevin Albert (Boston Conservatory graduate) and Italian dancer/actor Nicola Iervasi (former Martha Graham Ensemble member) developed The Wave Within! Movement Theater training in 2001. They utilized their diversified backgrounds to create this program as a response to the difficulties students often experience when taking acting and dance classes separately.

The Wave Within! is a unique blend of concepts including body conditioning, contemporary dance, physical theater, mime, contact improvisation and custom-crafted experiments. The non-technique-based approach, with Kevin and Nicola’s gentle guidance, makes the training truly experimental and interdisciplinary. They guide each participant step by step through exploration of the movement, editing, self directing, relation to space, interaction with others and performance.

For more information about Mare Nostrum visit their website!

MAY Pilobolus Workshop

May 17, 2010 - May 21, 2010; Mon - Fri
Technique: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Composition: 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM

Pilobolus, the arts organism, germinated in the fertile soil of a Dartmouth College dance class in 1971, emerging as a collaborative choreographic process with a nontraditional but powerful new set of skills with which to make dances. Today Pilobolus is a major American dance company of international influence. Its longevity testifies to its position as an artistic collective of remarkable fruitfulness.

The company has received honors such as the Berlin Critic’s Prize, the Brandeis Award, the New England Theatre Conference Prize, a Primetime Emmy Award for outstanding achievement in cultural programming, the 2000 Samuel H. Scripps ADF Award for lifetime achievement in choreography, and in 2006 Artistic Directors Barnett, Tracy and Wolken received the Kenneth and Harle Montgomery Endowment Fellowship from Dartmouth College.

Nejla Yatkin's Mosaic Dance Technique

Nejla Yatkin is BACK! This MAY, join Nejla for a week of Mosaic Dance Technique!
May 10, 2010 - May 14, 2010; Mon - Fri
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

According to Nejla Yatkin: "Mosaic class begins with a thorough warm-up focused on strengthening, lengthening, and preparing the body for an investigation of movement possibilities. With a weighted approach, we explore exercises that redirect momentum in and out of the floor and up into the air. This cultivates a sense of ease that allows for an alert dancer, conscious of the body's architecture in off-balance, explosive, and suspended three-dimensional situations."

During the workshop week Nejla will be looking to select male and female dancers for her fall season in NYC, DC and Chicago!

Partner Essentials with Josie M Coyoc

Want to learn how to be a more supportive and receptive dance partner? Take Josie M Coyoc's PARTNER Essentials Workshop!

Apr 26, 2010 - Apr 30, 2010;
Monday/Wednesday/Friday: 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM

The beginner level partnering class/workshop will develop greater trust and strength in the dancer’s ability to partner by learning the best ways to lift and be lifted. Focus will be on anatomical intelligence, proprioception and spatial awareness while moving through the air and on the floor. Confidence and creativity will be built through the guided and experimental portion of the class.

*Please bring a yoga mat to class. Please wear legging or shorts and close fitting clothes under your warm-ups. Knee pads , and extra clothes for padding are recommended.*

NEW TEACHER!

JASON PARSONS joins the Peridance faculty!

Contemporary Jazz
Intermediate Level
Wednesday 7-8:30pm
*Starting April 21st

Jason Parsons has been an inspired artist since he grew up in Rochester NY. Landing in NYC, Jason has trained with some of the best master teachers and choreographers. He has performed with companies such as River North Dance Company, Mia Michaels R.A.W, Dinyos Dance Company (Japan) and the POZ Dance Theater (South Korea). His Industrial credits include Sony, BMW, DaeWoo and General Motors. He has danced with Recording Artist Diana King, SWV and Celine Dion and his television credits include Fame L.A, Star Search and The Essence Awards.

Jason has created work for Rasta Thomas's Bad Boys of Dance, Odyssey, HoustonMet and the Evolution Dance Company. Internationally his work has been performed at the Gwang Ju Biennale Festival (South Korea), Baudelaire (Japan), Artedanza (Italy), Nokia Awards (Czech Rep.), Minjockchoom Cultural Festival (South Korea), Puglia Danza (Italy) and the Seoul Contemporary Jazz Dance Festival (South Korea). In February 2008, Jason initially formed his own company called Jason Parsons Company. His company has performed in New York City at the Joyce Soho, Dixon Place, Manhattan Movement and Art Center, Alvin Ailey and for APAP at Carnegie Hall.