2010 WFSS Schedule: Wednesday
WFSS (pronounced “woofs”) are SWS classes that meet on Wednesdays, Friday evenings, Saturdays, and Sundays. WFSS give students an opportunity to draw connections by personalizing, creating, and expanding their experiences through participation in a variety of artistic endeavors — a festival within a festival. Jams, digital media classes, salons, somatic practices, and weekly showings express multiple ways students might choose to connect and present work in alternate contexts. WFSS courses are offered on a drop-in basis, as well as special projects and seminars that progress through a six-week series. All full time Six Week Students take part in WFSS.
| selected examples of wfss courses |
bodypathways
critique jams
dancing for the camera
dance notation
editing workshop: mediating the body
faculty/student lunchtime chats
friday evening community chats
history jams with MFA candidates
horton technique
improvistaion into partnering
improv jams |
mapping the body's personal history
classes with visiting performing companies
open showings
panels and discussions with special guest artists
post-performance discussions
ritual series
student concerts
vidoe workshop: embodied technology... and more! |
"BodyPathways introduces students to contemporary somatic research and methodologies. A spectrum of movement approaches is taught utilizing the collective expertise of ADF faculty. Dynamic principles of body mind integration are incorporated to help dancer’s explore a restorative approach toward movement and expression, reflecting ADF’s commitment toward dancer’s health and wellness." –Pam Pietro
Douglas Becker
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Forsythe Project
Elizabeth Corbett and Richard Siegal
William Forsythe's vision "revolutionized" ballet's potential. As artistic director of an extraordinary collection of dance artists, Forsythe and Ballet Frankfurt blazed a trail for contemporary dance for 20 years. One of Ballet Frankfurt's evolving projects was the codification of a Laban-based, real-time movement analysis called Improvisation Technologies. Improvisation Technologies was employed by Ballet Frankfurt not only as a method to generate set phrases of movement but also as a tool for performed improvisation. You are invited to become intimate with these powerful concepts under the direction of former Ballet Frankfurt members.
Ritual
Mark Haim and Ming-Lung Yang
This experimental workshop is a continuation from last summer. Based on the awareness of being, students in the class will create individualized rituals drawing on beliefs and/or emotions that determine or effect how we live (and perhaps intend to live) our lives. Through this form of practice, we not only derive energy from nature but re-direct that energy and cycle it back into the life around us. Rather than imitating what we have known as ritual dance, we go inside of ourselves to generate individual practices that return us to our sense of self.
John Jasperse
John Jasperse will work with students on a laboratory project developing new material and ideas that will lead to an informal showing at the end of the two-week project. We will work with cultivating viscerally rich, evocative and perhaps even, sometimes overwhelming states in the body and the self, allowing ourselves to get lost briefly in the intensity of experience. Confusion will be examined impartially and accepted without judgment. Durational stillness might play as much of a role in our work together as big moving in space. I’m interested in exploring connection & disconnection. We may at times work in dislocated discrete environments as well as with contiguous spaces. We may play with some of these ideas via video conferencing. All participants need to commit to being present at all of the classes. I’m looking for people who are advanced movers, skilled and interested in both set material as well as improvisation and who want to engage in an inquiry about art making that includes lots of different ways of moving and being.
Text Into Performance
Rafael Lopez-Barrantes
This class is a hands-on exploration regarding tools for integrating text into performance. Text will be approached from the perspective of extended vocal range techniques. We will be exploring different ways of delivering it and how to materialize it into a performance. We will also be looking at five basic elements in text delivery: pitch, intensity, rate, pronunciation, voice quality, and how these elements relate to the dancer. Each participant will bring a text of their choice of approximately three minutes long with the aim to explore it and integrate it in a performance context. The work will require active participation of students through class discussion, voice work and the creation of in-class presentations.
Motif Writing
Ursula Payne
Discovering the practical uses of Dance Notation and Laban Movement Analysis as a tool for experimentation within the student’s creative process is the goal of this workshop. This series will focus on learning Motif writing skills to record short movement studies and to use as a tool for generating movement for choreography and structured improvisations.
Pilates
Katie Martin
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Pilates
Stacie Dombrowski
Pilates is movement based mat exercises designed by Joseph Pilates which emphasizes core strength, flexibility, and body awareness to support efficient, graceful movement. Each exercise integrates all six principles of Pilates: stability, concentration, control, breath, flow, and precision. Pilates mat classes will challenge your core strength and stability. Special attention is given to abs, inner thighs, back and glutei muscles. You will realize why Pilates is referred to as the "science of control." Mat classes are for all levels of fitness.
Yoga: Week 1
TaraMarie Perri
TaraMarie Perri's Mind Body Dancer™ yoga classes are anatomically and energetically themed, incorporating alignment-based, breath-focused yoga into a unique movement experience that emphasizes: injury prevention, investigation of individual alignment, overall mind/body wellness, and application of the principles of yoga to technique and performance. Classes are exploratory; portions restorative.
Yoga: Week 2 - 6
Lila Pierce
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