~ January 17th, 2006 ~ 9-5 ~ The Whitney Museum of American Art Altria ~

Some classes and workshops will provide instruction in a particular form of dance, others will lead students in dances and movements that have been choreographed in advance specifically for the space on that day and some will be improvisational workshops that develop movement responding directly to the place, people, time and moment.

9:00 - 9:30 ~ Line Dance Loop ~ Robbinschilds ~ ALL LEVELS ~ {all over / no cap}

9:00 - 9:30 ~ Pump It Up! ~ Michael Helland ~ ALL LEVELS ~ {top platform / 30 max.}

9:00 - 10:00 ~ Urban Migration ~ Jennifer Monson ~ FOR PROFESSIONAL DANCERS ~ {middle platform / 16 max.}

9:30 - 10:30 ~ Dance-Dance-Revolution United ~ Paige Gratland ~ ALL LEVELS ~ {main level / no cap}

9:30 - 11:00 ~ Will Then Slowly ~ Felicia Ballos ~ ALL LEVELS ~ {top platform / no cap}

10:00 - 1:00 ~ Your Dancing is Your Own ~ Juliette Mapp ~ ALL LEVELS ~ {middle platform / 25 max.}

10:30 - 11:30 ~ Mihomatsu: Thinking, Listening, Observing, and Moving Forward ~ DD Dorvillier ~ ALL LEVELS ~ {main level / no cap}

11:00 - 11:45 ~ Performance Development for the Betterment of the Workplace ~ Flora Wiegmann ~ ALL LEVELS - RECOMMENDED FOR OFFICE WORKERS ~ {top platform / 12 max.}

11:30 - 12:30 ~ Navigating the City ~ Jennifer Monson ~ ALL LEVELS - RECOMMENDED FOR OFFICE WORKERS ~ {main level / 12 max.}

11:45 - 12:15 ~ Pump It Up! ~ Michael Helland ~ ALL LEVELS ~ {top platform / 30 max.}

12:15 - 1:00 ~ Performance Development for the Betterment of the Workplace ~ Flora Wiegmann ~ ALL LEVELS - RECOMMENDED FOR OFFICE WORKERS ~ {top platform / 12 max.}

12:00 - 2:00 ~ Public Movement ~ Levi Gonzalez ~ ALL LEVELS - RECOMMENDED FOR EXPERIENCED PEFORMERS ~ {all over / 12 max.}

12:30 - 1:00 ~ Mihomatsu: Thinking, Listening, Observing, and Moving Forward ~ DD Dorvillier ~ ALL LEVELS ~ {main level / no cap}

1:00 - 2:00 ~ Pick Me Up Pick-Me-Ups! ~ Paige Gratland ~ ALL LEVELS ~ {top platform / 15 max.}

1:00 - 2:00 ~ Team Scores: This is not a Test… ~ Michael Helland ~ ALL LEVELS ~ {middle platform / 8 max.}

1:30 - 2:30 ~ Be Here Now - Sensory Movement Meditation ~ Olive Bieringa ~ ALL LEVELS - RECOMMENDED FOR OFFICE WORKERS ~ {main level / 20 max.}

2:30 - 4:30 ~ The BodyCartography Site-Specific Dance Workshop ~ Olive Bieringa ~ RECOMMENDED FOR DANCERS ~ {main level / 20 max.}

2:00 - 3:00 ~ Impulse/Stimulus Improvisation Class ~ Kayvon Pourazar ~ ALL LEVELS ~ {top platform / 12 max.}

2:00 - 5:00 ~ Dance Video Laboratory ~ Otto Ramstad ~ ALL LEVELS ~ {middle level / 12 max.}

3:00 - 4:00 ~ Why Move? ~ Daniel Linehan ~ ALL LEVELS ~ {top platform / 10 max.}

4:00 - 5:00 ~ Thriller ~ Alex Escalante ~ ALL LEVELS ~ {top platform / no cap}

4:30 - 5:00 ~ Line Dance Loop ~ Robbinschilds ~ ALL LEVELS ~ {main level / no cap}

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Line Dance Loop ~ Robbinschilds ~ Take a break from the office with Robbinschilds in a 30-minute never
ending accumulative LINE DANCE LOOP. Join in at any point during the course of the 30 minute cycle, step in for five minutes or take the full 30 minute ride, your choice! No formal dance experience necessary, all are welcome. So come join the linear ladies of Robbinschilds as they piece together an assemblage of various line dances into one long, twisty accumulation. The operative here is F.U.N. ~ ALL LEVELS ~ {all over / no cap / 9:00 - 10:30}

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Pump It Up! ~ Michael Helland ~ Join Michael on a jazzerfic journey into stretch dancing and stair mastering. Believe it or not, Michael actually began his professional dance career on the step master, and he hopes that you will too! Join him for some stair-stepping-cardio-fun and some dancerly stretches. Come ready to move. This action-packed dance aerobics marathon will pump you up!!! ~ ALL LEVELS ~ {top platform / 30 max. / 9:00 - 9:30 / 11:45 - 12:15}

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Urban Migration ~ Jennifer Monson ~ This workshop is designed to interact with the public space of the sidewalk at the outside perimeter of the gallery. We will work with movement systems that will develop over an hour. The process will evolve out of a 3 minute score of watching, doing and replacing that allows a collective pattern to emerge from witnessing and dancing. This in turn reveals our adaptive strategies to moving in the environment. ~ FOR PROFESSIONAL DANCERS ~ {middle platform / 16 max. / 9:00 - 10:00}

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Dance-Dance-Revolution United ~ Paige Gratland ~ Gamers needed. Dust off your dancing shoes and step to the dance-dance-revolution student-teacher democracy. Join the crowd, watch the screen, follow the cues, let the beat from the speakers run through your sneakers during this hour long, non-stop performance. you don't have to be a dancer to join the revolution, you just have to dance. ~ ALL LEVELS ~ {main level / no cap / 9:30 - 10:30}

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Will Then Slowly ~ Felicia Ballos ~
We will
Begin with ourselves.
Find a heightened
Awareness of our anatomy
And our senses.

And then broaden our
Attention to our
Surroundings. And the
Other bodies near.

Moving slowly to feel
And together find our
Performance.

~ ALL LEVELS ~ {top platform / no cap / 9:30 - 11:00}

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Your Dancing is Your Own ~ Juliette Mapp ~ Using the luxury of three hours of dancing together we will take the time to investigate different states of awareness. The class will be three-fold, beginning with a guided improvisation to inspire the imagination to expand into the unique life of different parts of the body, followed by some dancing within technical forms to support our range and work as movers, and concluding with a phrase that integrates concepts of weight, lightness, initiation and intension. The merging to the unconscious life of movement through improvisation and conscious attention to the physical imagination is part of the energizing practice we will explore in class. ~ ALL LEVELS ~ {middle platform / 25 max. / 10:00 - 1:00}

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Mihomatsu: Thinking, Listening, Observing, and Moving Forward ~ DD Dorvillier ~ Mihomatsu is a performative teaching tool, where we learn by listening, observing and moving forward together. This is a score I have been using in workshops all over the world for several years. It consists mainly of walking back and forth between two predetermined lines with a large group of people in a public space. We will learn a few simple rules, practice it for about 40 minutes, shifting between mover and observer as we like, and then have a discussion about what we experienced. ~ ALL LEVELS ~ {main level / no cap / 10:30 - 11:30 / 12:30 - 1:30}

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Performance Development for the Betterment of the Workplace ~ Flora Wiegmann ~ Workshop will provide a model of dynamic activity for down time in the workplace, with the desired outcome of a committed physicality and interconnectivity with colleagues and the body. Participants will build a toolbox of improvisational and performative skills which will then be applicable throughout the workday. Topics will include: time management strategies, learning structures for teambuilding, micro/macro economic dynamics, strength zones, and dealing with redundancy and reassignment. ~ ALL LEVELS - RECOMMENDED FOR OFFICE WORKERS ~ {top platform / 12 max. / 11:00 - 11:45 / 12:15 - 1:00}

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Navigating the City ~ Jennifer Monson ~ Inspired by the navigational strategies of migrating animals this workshop uses simple exercises to heighten our sensory awareness of the urban environment and investigates individual solutions to navigating the city. Once our senses are tuned we will map out movements that evolve from our pedestrian patterns and develop them into choreographed movements and phrases. ~ ALL LEVELS - RECOMMENDED FOR OFFICE WORKERS ~ {main level / 12 max. / 11:30 - 12:30}

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Public Movement ~Levi Gonzalez ~ The class will provide an opportunity for performers/creators to place their work in a public, non-dance environment. We will watch and teach each other in an effort to understand the work independent of the performer, and gain insight into the way context informs and is ultimately part of the meaning of performance. Participants should bring 3-5 minutes of material, either their own or something they are familiar with. Bring clothes warm enough for the outside weather. ~ ALL LEVELS - RECOMMENDED FOR EXPERIENCED PEFORMERS ~ {all over / 12 max. / 11:30 - 2:30}

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Pick Me Up Pick-Me-Ups! ~ Paige Gratland ~ Everyone needs a little pick-me-up. Get swept off your feet and pick-up a stranger at this midday boost workshop. Learn simple holds and lifts from professional dancers. Your lunch break has never been so uplifting. Singles and couples welcome. No previous dance experience required. Wear something comfortable and get carried away! ~ ALL LEVELS ~ {top platform / 15 max. / 1:00 - 2:00}

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Team Scores: This is not a test… ~ Michael Helland ~ A score is a set of instructions that a person navigates in the present moment. In dance, scores are frequently used for direction in performance and as part of the creative process. Scores facilitate experiential learning and can also help to develop creative problem solving skills and the ability to work well within a group. Come to this workshop with little to no dance experience. Wear comfortable, non-restrictive, non-precious clothing, and make sure to bring an open-mind and a willingness to experiment with the unknown. ~ ALL LEVELS ~ {middle platform / 8 max. / 1:00 - 2:00}

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Be Here Now - Sensory Movement Meditation ~ Olive Bieringa ~ Beginning from an inner landscape of breath and simplicity we will take a developmental journey out through our senses to inspire simple movement meditations from the architecture, weather and social landscape of the space. We will play with perception, stillness, micro movement and breath to understand and play with the relationship between our bodies and space, particularly the spaces we move through everyday. ~ ALL LEVELS - RECOMMENDED FOR OFFICE WORKERS ~ {main level / 20 max. / 1:30 - 2:30}

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The BodyCartography Site-Specific Dance Workshop ~ Olive Bieringa ~ Engaging the senses, perceptions, and the cartography of our bodies, we will investigate the physiology of the world around us, using place as our medium to make dance. Beginning from an inner landscape we will take a developmental journey out through our senses to work with the architecture, weather and social landscape of the space. Combining skills and awareness of embodied anatomy, contact improvisation and composition to build dances from the micro to the macro with the world in solo, duet and group form. ~ RECOMMENDED FOR DANCERS ~ {main level / 20 max. / 2:30 - 4:30}

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Impulse/Stimulus Improvisation Class ~ Kayvon Pourazar ~ This class will be designed to allow us to explore the relationship between improvisational impulses that we draw from an internal source and external stimuli that can influence our choices. Specific exercises and games will create several contexts to see different ways in which internal impulse and external stimulus respond to one another. The architecture of this particular site will be incorporated into these improvisational contexts. ~ ALL LEVELS ~ {top platform / 12 max. / 2:00 - 3:00}

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Dance Video Laboratory ~ Otto Ramstad of The BodyCartography Project ~ Through the lens of the camera we will open the dancers eyes to the stage of the screen and lead filmmakers into the world of movement. Using the physical and social landscape we will generate video material from a visual, aural and kinesthetic perspective. The principle aim of this workshop is to give an overview of using digital video as a versatile medium within an intensive physical & participatory environment. We will learn the practical essentials of camera techniques and the physical and perceptual techniques that support them. This workshop is intended for beginners to intermediate level users who wish to enhance their knowledge and interest in digital dance video production. ~ ALL LEVELS ~ {middle level / 12 max. / 2:00 - 5:00}

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Why Move? ~ Daniel Linehan ~ In the context of human history, we live in a time and a place in which it is possible to survive without actually needing to move very much at all. What instigates movement in the 21st century? This question will be examined from a dance perspective, as participants are guided through improvisations and movement activities that bring attention to the roots of individual physical motion. Participants will find ease of movement by working to release habitual holding patterns of the body. This class is open to all participants. Please bring loose comfortable clothing that allows for a full range of movement and be ready to be barefoot. ~ ALL LEVELS ~ {top platform / 10 max. / 3:00 - 4:00}

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Thriller ~ Alex Escalante ~ We will learn a section of one of the most exciting dance videos ever made. No experience required. ~ ALL LEVELS ~ {top platform / no cap / 4:00 - 5:00}

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Video documentation ~ A short video will be created by A.L. Steiner with animated hi-res stills and lo-res video clips taken throughout the day. This will be quickly edited for presentation at the 7pm lecture by Fritz Haeg at the Whitney Museum that evening. This will serve as the official archival record of the event.

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