There are two special events happening this week:
I'll be performing on Wednesday night at a fundraiser for a sculpture for Burning Man that I am helping to build. The Heart Beat Amplifier is a 6' tall abstract anatomical heart that will pulsate and vibrate along with participants' actual heart beats. That description does not do it justice. We're having a party at San Francisco's Supper Club, and I'll be performing at the event. Find all the details here: http://www.heartbeatamplifier.com/
The second event is actually happening next week: The bad-ass Brecken will be coming from the East Coast for Burning Man, and is offering a couple workshops en route. Here are the details:
Email Brecken to reserve a spot: here
When: Mon & Tues., August 24-25, 2000
8:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. (1.5 hour + break and jam time)
Where: The Margaret Jenkins Dance LAB
301 – 8th Street, 2nd Floor, Studio 200
San Francisco, CA 94103
Monday: Bridging Planes
The first class is an exercise in broadening the range of planar
possibilities and accentuating the ones of your choosing. Designed
initially to uncover horizontal/vertical transitions, it utilizes a
somewhat visual holistic approach in creating a personal terrain for
exploration that subverts the rigidness of the plane mentality, but
allows for use of those planes when technical elements are applied.
Tuesday: Poise & Finesse
We can direct our breath toward forming channels to create lines as
…let’s call them “emotional highways” for promoting elongation,
lightness, and torque when it comes to the hoop. Pulling in to
isolation techniques, it’s another method for expanding the range of
focus, pairing explosive movements with more intimate ones and making
everybody jealous. Several of the exercises are inspired by modern
dance (a.k.a. you tube), but applied to hooping over a few months of
trial and error. Time permitting, I’d like to tie it into the methods
of the previous class and initiate the baddest hoop jam ever did doned.
Teehee.
