LongLife Forms with Linda k. Johnson

Fridays beginning February 7th // 9:30-11:15am (door opens at 9:15am)

Drop-in; $20 (mutable if needed)

For more information - lkjdance@earthlink.net

A contemporary dance class where time and material move at the speed of the mature, injured, recovering or otherwise temporate body. Form + Somatics + Movement Material + Improvisation + Play

LongLife Forms builds on my 40 years of embodied research about the intelligent, sensitive, porous and powerful dancing body. The next iteration of my teaching practice, this intermediate-level class honors and makes space for the body we have at this moment in time - for its current weather to be a palette to be seen, worked with and expressed. Studies of yoga (Diane Wilson), Feldenkrais Method (Lila Hurwtiz), BodyMind Centering (Wendy Hambidge + many), Alexander Technique (Shelley Senter, Robyn Avalon + many), CI (Karen Nelson, Alito Alexis, Steve Paxton), real-time improvisation (Danny Lepkoff), Wild Goose qi gong (Margit Galanter), and formal dance techniques (ballet - so many, Inga Weiss/Wigman, Bebe Miller, Mary Oslund, Yvonne Rainer, Betty Jones, +++) will variously inform our approaches to practice and play.

 This class assumes contemporary, post-Judson dance experience. While not a technique class, it is a forum to use what we know after years of study and practice to play with all of our almost unnameable and innumerable sets of tools. We will practice forms, we will improvise, we will consider our anatomy, we will touch and be touched, we will be in community. We will breathe, sweat, and get a little lost in that feeling of moving with clarity and consciousness in the body that you show up with.