[CI-Announce] BARBARA MAHLER: Workshop "RE-EDUCATION OF THE BODY – Klein Technique as taught by Barbara Mahler", July 12-16, 2010, Schwelle 7, Berlin/Germany

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RE-EDUCATION OF THE BODY – Klein Technique as taught by Barbara Mahler
5 day intensive workshop with Barbara Mahler

WHEN:
Monday-Friday, July 12-16, 2010
Workshop daily from 11:30 am - 6 pm
morning class 11:30am-2:00pm (break 2:00-3:30pm) afternoon class  
3:30-6:00pm
Participants Performance: Friday, July 16th, 8:30 pm

UPDATES: http://www.schwelle7.de/Barbara%20Mahler.html
FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=118023768236744
WHERE: Schwelle 7, Berlin, Germany

RE-EDUCATION OF THE BODY – Klein Technique as taught by Barbara Mahler

In the morning portion of this workshop we will focus on a movement  
technique that works with the premise that the requirements of  
movement in daily life and dance are essentially the same, and will  
provide the underpinnings to support all styles of movement/technique  
and improvisation.  The purpose of the “stretch and placement” class  
is to re-educate one's body with an interweaving of theory and  
practice on a physical, intellectual, and organic level.  The result  
is a clarity and sureness of movement, and a new level of  
understanding the innate intelligence of the body. It has its roots in  
30 plus years of investigating and teaching the essentials for  
efficient body use.  We work at the level of the bone, not the  
traditional level of the muscles. In order to move most efficiently it  
is necessary to let go of the muscles that hold us back from moving  
and fix the body into a set and locked configuration.  When the bones  
are aligned we become connected, powerful and strong.  The body  
becomes efficient and alive.

In the afternoon class we will focus on the practice of the principles  
explored in the morning, working with improvisation and movement  
exploration, leading us towards the formulation of an informal  
performance/showing.  The movement will be created by the participants  
of the workshop. One of the ideas we will work with are various  
initiations in the body to better facilitate movement sequencing,  
becoming both grounded and free.   As the work also focuses on helping  
each individual student work with their own body structure  we will  
enjoy both a consistency and surprise in the our movement.

The workshop will culminate in a showing/performance on Friday, July  
16th at 8:30 pm with a solo dance „Dance on scatterings“ – performed  
by Barbara Mahler and a group piece with the students.


BARBARA MAHLER

Barbara Mahler has taught daily classes for 27 years plus, educating  
and teaching (with, and inspired by, Susan Klein) a generation of  
dancers. She has traveled extensively around the globe, teaching/ 
performing/choreographing, widely respected and. active in the  
development contemporary dance technique. Essentially self-taught, she  
brings to her classes the perspective, understanding and experience of  
working on her own movement re-education. Barbara was a Movement  
Research artist in residence for the 2000-01 and 2006-08 season, is a  
movement consultant at Hunter College, NYC, and is on the artist  
advisory board of BAX.  She is a recent graduate from the MFA program  
at the University Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She also maintains a private  
practice in Zero Balancing and other healing modalities.

“Mahler, a noted teacher, views dance training as a voyage of self- 
discovery. Barbara Mahler roots her choreography in distillation, as  
if she aims to extract the essence of her ideas, making them calmer  
and purer. The image is that of a seesaw in perfect, unwavering  
equilibrium, a woman at ease in control.”(Village Voice 2007)

MORE: http://www.barbaramahler.net


FEE: 150 Euro
REGISTER: per email to xs4jan at gmx.de

SLEEPING:
We can host up workshop participants basic opportunities to stay  
overnight. The cost is 10 EUR a night per person. More options: http://www.schwelle7.de/GAESTE.html

VENUE:
Schwelle 7
Uferstraße 6, backyard, 2. floor
13357 Berlin - Wedding / Germany
http://www.schwelle7.de
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=286059761953


Traffic link: U8 Pankstraße, U9 Osloer Straße, U9 Nauener Platz, SB  
Gesundbrunnen, SB Humboldthain, Bus M27 Brunnenplatz
http://maps.google.de/maps?daddr=13357+Berlin,+Uferstr+6
  
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