a reminder: workshop this weekend!

Paula Josa-Jones — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 03:19:17 +0000

MOVEMENT FOUNDRY presents

COOKBOOK FOR THE BONEHOUSE

an improvisation workshop for dancers and performing artists

with PAULA JOSA-JONES, MA, CMA, RSME/T

SUNDAYS, March 25^th & April 1^st, 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm

The Dance Complex, 536 Mass Ave. Cambridge 02139

A two-day workshop that takes a playful and strategic approach to movement, voice and performance. I have developed a “cookbook” of wild play “recipes” to challenge and focus dancers and performing artists.

The cookbook includes:

development of personal kinetic imagery
the power of stillness
the palette of dynamic space
internal phrasing
initiation
shape shifting
listening and responding
A Thousand Voices -a “chunking down” practice that brings greater clarity and differentiation to the body .

COST
$30 for both classes / $18 a la carte

HOW TO REGISTER
Please email movementfoundry@gmail.com to reserve your spot.

PLEASE NOTE
Participants interested in taking both classes will be given registration preference.
Maximum capacity: 22 students per class

FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT
WWW.MOVEMENTFOUNDRY.YOLASITE.COM

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Paula Josa-Jones — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 19:38:03 +0000

(I apologize to the photographer, Marconi. I cannot find a really good link to his work. If any of you have one, please pass it along.)

I don’t usually include the work of other photographers in my blog. It feels dishonest, a little like cheating. But that is just an old tune in my head. When I find something this beautiful, it has to be shared.

Here is what I love about this photograph. It is completely kinetic – when I look at it, I can feel the contours of the landscape in my body, can feel the breath and music of it so clearly through my terrain of skin, muscle and bone.

When I was just out of college, I took a dance improvisation workshop with the great choreographer Trisha Brown. One of the things she asked us to do to create movement was to “read” the a wall in the studio with our movement, to translate what we saw into dance. We all got busy dancing the basketball hoop, the windows, the bleachers, the sky beyond. That experience kicked open a door to something that has always stayed with me – connecting what is outside with what is inside – finding that creative, generative impulse from everything around me.

I teach a workshop called Cookbook for the Bonehouse. Here is a recipe for you: Sometime today, maybe right now, stand up and face a direction you usually don’t. Let your shoulders or your hips or your nose “read” (translate) whatever you are looking at into movement. Do it again, but this time slow it way down. Do it again fast. What are you feeling?