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BEGINNER/INTERMEDIATE CLASSES:
CI Essentials and Principles
W/ ALICIA GRAYSON
Thursdays 5:45 - 7:45 PM
Boulder Circus Center
11-week series: January 12 - March 22
For beginner and intermediate level dancers. Through solo, partner and group practices we will sensitize our bodies and minds to the dance while improving our perceptual and communication skills.
Specific skills include:
*Refining our sensitivity in listening and responding through touch
*Honing our ability to follow the point of contact
*Assessing and modulating tone from feather light to powerfully supportive
*Finding support through the structure of our own and partner's bodies
*Sharing a central axis with our partner and giving and receiving weight with ease
*Using momentum and moving effortlessly in spherical space
*Expanding options for entering and exiting dances
*Training the mind/body to be acutely aware and responsive without attachment to outcome
We practice these skills in an environment that honors our physical, emotional and mental boundaries...and invites their expansion. In contact improvisation we discover the magic that happens as we play with our creative minds and hearts and the physics of two (or more) bodies in motion.
INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED CLASSES:
Diving Deeper
W/ ALICIA GRAYSON
Tuesdays 5:45 - 7:45 PM
Boulder Circus Center
11-week series: January 10 - March 20
For those with significant CI experience and who have embodied the CI fundamentals. This class will work both technically and with states and scores that expand and vitalize our dancing. We will develop more ease, fluidity and range in our bodies and with each other while exploring a fuller palate of emotional and artistic expressions. This integration of human expression with a refinement of physical ease and virtuosity will create the soil for wonderful and magical dancing.
PRIVATE LESSONS:
W/ ALICIA GRAYSON
By Appointment
For all dancers who benefit from individualized attention. Whether you are a beginner or have years of experience learning one-on-one with an experienced teacher devoted to your development can open doors you didn't know were there. Alicia helps you uncover unconscious limitations and helps facilitate greater ease and range in your movement and expression. This is a unique opportunity to dive into the form, go at your own pace, focus on details and blossom with individualized attention.
Come with a friend for a semi-private lesson at the same price.
REGISTRATION:
ALICIA GRAYSON
303 653 3969 aliciaggrayson@gmail.com
$209 for any 11-week series Postmarked by 1/3/12
$220 for any 11-week series Postmarked after 1/3/12
$190 for partial series of 9 classes
$23 drop-in fee all classes
$80 for private or semi-private lesson. (if sign up for 5 sessions, $75 each)
Winter Special:
Sign up for a full 11-week series with a friend who is new to Alicia’s classes and
you receive a 15% discount
Mail check to: Alicia Grayson 155 Cumberland Gap Rd Nederland, CO 80466
Make ups - if you miss a class you can make it up in the other classes offered during the current session or in Jun Akiyama's Sunday 8:45 - 9:45 AM class at the Pearl St Studio. For every each 2 hour class of Alicia's you miss you can make up two 1 hour classes of Jun's. For more information see www.sharingweight.com
Class & Refund Policies - See www.Tumblebones.com for details
Alicia Grayson has been passionately involved with dancing, teaching and performing CI for the past 24 years. She has taught contact improvisation as an adjunct faculty at George Washington University, University of Denver, Naropa University and Shenandoah University. She teaches CI, yoga and pilates classes in Boulder and regularly travels to Europe and around the US to teach at festivals and workshops. Her long time practices of authentic movement, yoga and meditation are important influences on her dancing and teaching. Currently, she is a student of both Bodymind Somanautics, a somatic psychology and living anatomy training program, and the Comprehensive Training in the Hakomi Method of Experiential Psychotherapy. She delights in exploring and discovering new depths to the form and is particularly interested in the intersection of physics and expression and the mind/body relationship.
Class: Fundamentals of Contact Improvisation (this was posted on 10/19/11 -Bruce)
2126 Pearl Street, (Behind Snarfs), Boulder, CO 80302 USA
Sundays, 8:45-9:45am This is an ongoing weekly “Fundamentals of Contact Improvisation” class on Sundays at 8:45-9:45am at the Pearl Street Studio (2126 Pearl Street, next to Snarf’s). This class takes place right before the Sunday lab and will be focused on exploring the fundamental techniques and principles of CI. The class is designed for both those new to CI and for experienced dancers. We will investigate and hone useful CI skills such as: falling with confidence (based on aikido principles); effective weight sharing techniques (making yourself light, supporting weight with ease); maintaining a functional alignment and structure; cultivating an aware and powerful center; harnessing momentum; listening kinesthetically to ourselves and others; and easy and fun ways to enter and exit dances. Website: SharingWeight.com The cost of this class is $10/class if you prepay for the entire upcoming month (eg $40 for Nov 2011) or $12 drop-in. (For those in Alicia’s classes, you’re welcome to come to two of these classes for each class you miss of hers; similarly, for every two classes you miss of mine, you’re welcome to go to one of hers.) Sundays, 8:45-9:45am CONTACT: Jun A., ciclasses@sharingweight.com, http://www.SharingWeight.com
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Local teachers – classes or workshops: Gretchen Spiro & Steve Homsher 303 / 545-9956 gretchen@gretchenspiro.com Alicia Grayson 303 / 653-3969 aliciaggrayson@gmail.com Scott Rodwin 303.204.8556 www.stonedancestudio.com Jenny Epstein jenny@greatblueheron.org Susan Coates livinglaundry@msn.com Adwoa Lemieux (303) 442-6476 adwoa@nmci.com Morgan Stanfield morganstanfield@yahoo.com Joe Stoller 720-570-6606 stoller.joe@gmail.com |