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SCHEDULE - all practice sessions are noon-2pm with Fritz Haeg in residence {click for list}

Sat, Nov 14 - practice preview with Bodycity / 8-10pm - opening reception

WEEK 1

Mon, Nov 16 - open practice

Tue, Nov 17 - with Katie Bachler

Wed, Nov 18 - Foundations of Classical Movement with Alexis Hyman

Thu, Nov 19 - Butoh training/investigations on reclaiming the body with Maya Gingery

Fri, Nov 20 - open practice

Sat, Nov 21 - movements with Bodycity (watch the video)

WEEK 2

Mon, Nov 23 - open practice

Tue, Nov 24 - dance/color video project 3 to 4 with artist Krysten Cunningham (VIDEO)

Wed, Nov 25 - Tue, Dec 1 - open practice

WEEK 3

Wed, Dec 2 - Foundations of Classical Movement with Alexis Hyman

Thu, Dec 3 - Butoh training/investigations on reclaiming the body with Maya Gingery

Fri, Dec 4 - a dancey workout focusing on whole body consciousness - with a yoga and Alexander based warm up - with Hana van der Kolk

Sat, Dec 5 - yoga with Nancy Popp

WEEK 4

Mon, Dec 7 - open practice

Tue, Dec 8 - dance/color video project 3 to 4 with artist Krysten Cunningham

Wed, Dec 9 - Foundations of Classical Movement with Alexis Hyman CANCELLED - out sick!

Thu, Dec 10 - Butoh training/investigations on reclaiming the body with Maya Gingery (watch the VIDEO - with ‘Behavior (Formless Revenge)’ by Luck Dragons)

Fri, Dec 11 - a dancey workout focusing on whole body consciousness - (with a yoga and Alexander based warm up - with Hana van der Kolk (watch the VIDEO - with 'Complement Song' by Lucky Dragons)

Sat, Dec 12 - 11:30am - 2:00pm - filming of the new movement practice video by Bodycity, and Jacinto Astiazarán - We will build bodycities and make a video. Expect a full spectrum of experience. The rules are simple, come in comfortable clothes and have a conversation, build the foundation, add on, start/stop. One person starts, finds a position, another responds with another position, then another, then other, until we have a mass of bodies quiety striking poses, or cities, together... All humans are welcome. (watch the VIDEO - with 'Givers' by Lucky Dragons)

WEEK 5

Mon, Dec 14 - Contemplative Dance session with Carol McDowell - CANCELLED - out sick!

Tue, Dec 15 - dance/color video project 3 to 4 with artist Krysten Cunningham (watch the VIDEO - with 'Meadowgrams and Droplets' by Emily Lacy)

Wed, Dec 16 - Foundations of Classical Movement with Alexis Hyman (watch the VIDEO)

Thu, Dec 17 - Butoh training/investigations on reclaiming the body with Maya Gingery (watch the VIDEO - with ‘New Fear’ by Luck Dragons)

Fri, Dec 18 - Re-learning Tai Chi Chuan - Jeremy J. Quinn will work at reconstructing his knowledge of the Yang style Tai Chi Chuan set, and in the process can give an introduction to the form to anyone interested.

Sat, Dec 19 - walking, moving, mapping with Sara Wookey, Sara Daleiden, and friends

8:00 -10:00pm - CLOSING RECEPTION, COOL-DOWN & SCREENING OF NEW VIDEOS - showing new videos produced during the 5-week run of Practicing Moving by Krysten Cunningham, Jacinto Astiazarán, and Fritz Haeg (plus a warm-up and cool-down lead by Bodycity)

I would like to invite you to join me for SUNDOWN SCHOOLHOUSE: PRACTICING MOVING at the glorious art center in my neighborhood, just up the valley from the dome, the Center for the Arts Eagle Rock. It is housed in a sublime cathedral-like Spanish-style space that was originally a library. For the next five weeks it will be converted into an open practice hall and headquarters for movement. Read below for a few ways that you can participate.

+ Come to the OPENING Saturday, November 14th, 8-10pm. Bodycity will lead us in movements. See the project headquarters and display. View the new photos by Eve Fowler. There will be some produce from that mornings farmers market.

+ Join me for DAILY MOVEMENT PRACTICE Mondays - Saturdays, noon - 2pm, (except Nov 26 - Dec 1) as I host an open forum for warm-ups, stretches, exercises, or whatever sort of movement you want to lead, follow or practice. Some days I will be alone, doing my own thing like working on my balancing poses and handstands, other days will feature scheduled movement leaders (see the website), and then other days might just be you and me, learning from and teaching each other. (Come dressed to move, or try on the warm-up clothes provided. I will be transforming my old clothing into outfits for moving to be displayed and worn throughout my residency.)

+ Visit the project HEADQUARTERS Mondays through Fridays, 10am - 6pm or Saturdays 10am- 2pm located in the adjacent exhibition space, featuring a small dance reading library, new photographs of movement practice by Eve Fowler, videos by Jacinto Astiazarán of dance projects by Bodycity and Sundown Schoolhouse, other ephemera from their past projects, and a geodesic dome tent where visitors will be welcomed to get comfortable, lounge, read, meet, watch, or recover from movement practice.

To schedule a time and topic for movement practice (Mon - Sat, noon - 2pm, except Nov 26 - Dec 1) contact me at studio[at]fritzhaeg.com. Or just drop by to practice, lead or teach whatever you have to share: stretching, Yoga, Tai Chi, Qigong, headstands, breathing, acrobatics, Alexander Technique, improvisational dance exercises, etc., and invite others to join us.
*Attention local movement and dance related studios, groups and individuals: drop off your fliers, literature, announcements, and schedules to post on our bulletin board.

table dance, 2008 [05:39] video by Jacinto Astiazarán and members of bodycity

boothdance, 2008 [06:11] video by Jacinto Astiazarán and members of bodycity

found dance: excerpts from improvisations in echo park, 2007 [03:24] video by Jacinto Astiazarán and members of bodycity

bodycity IV: the steepest street in california, 2006 [13:44] video by Jacinto Astiazarán and members of bodycity

LACMA ALPHA BCAM, 2008 [06:15] Filmed during Machine Project's Guide to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, video by Jacinto Astiazarán with Fritz Haeg and Flora Wiegmann

Dancing 9 to 5, 2007 [12:00] A Sundown Schoolhouse project by Fritz Haeg commissioned by the Whitney Museum of American Art, video by A.L. Steiner

SUNDOWN SCHOOLHOUSE:
Sundown Schoolhouse: Practicing Moving pays special attention to the activity and idea of practice. Physical movements, routines, and exercises like yoga, stretching, martial arts, and dance warm-ups strive for an ideal condition that is never achieved. They are intended to have an effect on the person doing them, not on those watching. Practicing Moving presents these movements in an open forum of mutual education as both public ritual and private performance.

Practicing Moving is part of the on-going Sundown Schoolhouse series, which evolved out of the Sundown Salon gatherings held at Fritz Haeg’s Los Angeles geodesic dome from 2001 through 2006. Schoolhouse activities have included day long movement lessons at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, “expression” workshops at the ICA in Philadelphia, gardening seminars at Arthouse in Austin as a part of the series of Edible Estate gardens, urban wildlife talks at Casco in the Netherlands, and the 2008 Whitney Biennial as a part of the on-going Animal Estates initiative, in addition to the founding meetings at the dome which have included yoga classes, a book club, and a full fall season in 2006 which featured 24 visiting teachers from many disciplines.