December 20 - Simone Forti
WINTER BREAK - no class Dec. 27 or Jan 3.
January 10, 17, 24 - Mira Kingsley
Jan 31, Feb 7, 14 - Hana van der Kolk
Feb 21, 28, March 7 - Rae Shao-Lan Blum
March 14 - Eva Aymami
March 21, 28 - Shel Wagner Rasch / Flight School
April 4 - Andre Andriev / Flight School
April 11 - visiting guest artist: Paige Martin
April 18 - visiting guest artist: Christine Elmo
April 25, May 2, May 9 - Esther Baker-Tarpaga
May 16, 23, 30 - Michael Sakamoto
June 6, 13, 20- Arianne Hoffmann
short BREAK
In July:
Special Guest workshop with Ralf Jaroschinski
Saturday & Sunday, July 11 & 12th, 11am-2pm
$17 single class, $30 both days.
Ralf Jaroschinski was born in Southern Germany and grew up in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He received classical and modern dance training in Germany and then studied contemporary dance techniques in New York City. That’s where he discovered contact improvisation (CI) about fourteen years ago – mainly in Daniel Lepkoff’s and Alito Alessi’s classes among others. He currently works as a dance teacher and choreographer mainly in Europe and the Americas. He enjoys using CI in his creations and teaching it since about eight years.
In the beginning of the class, we’ll focus on our center and awareness: We will look for the true internal source and the authentic external expression of our own dance. We will then investigate attentively the texture of our connection with our partner(s) through listening to their and again our actions and reactions in the ongoing dance. During this, we will be able to fully enjoy participating in the dance, because our and our partners' contributions to it will be generous and full-hearted, since they are at all times nurtured from within and therefore inexhaustible. And so, finally, we will feel union and satisfaction while dancing with our partner(s), because we’ll not only be experiencing the freedom of space and the excitement of momentum in the dynamic dance, but also the heightened support we get from dancing in communication with our center and other persons’ centers as well.
For more information please visit:
www.ralfjaroschinski.de
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Premiere of watch her (not know it now), as part of the New Original Works (NOW) Festival @ REDCAT
being created in collaboration with composer/sound designer Aaron Drake
choreographer & performer, organizer & instigator of Show Box projects...
including the tri-annual dance journal, itch (have you subscribed yet?)
; the Anatomy Riot performance series...and DANCEbank classes (see info on the left side of this page) Coming soon, Show Box is opening a new studio space for rehearsals/classes/events... stay tuned!
RECENTLY:
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April 17-19th, 2009: at Highways Performance Space (in collaboration with Gregory Barnett); on a shared program with Demolition Boy by guest artist Karen Sherman (Minneapolis).
performance venues, studios, clubs, galleries that show dance, etc etc
Recently::
November 14:.. Producer for "Vaudeville Night" at the Velaslavasay Panorama Theater in conjunction
with the California Community Foundation 20 Years Ago Today exhibition.
performed as part of Asphalt Sea at the RED MERMADE, instigated by the divine Anna B. Scott
Oct 2-3 2008 8 pm
performed as part of the Commuter Festival
at the California Institute for the Arts
CalArts, The Sharon Disney Lund Dance Theater
CalArts School of Dance would like to encourage the exchange of creative processes between the educational and professional environments within the greater Los Angeles collective. The “commuter” concept was developed to support the presentation of works by local choreographers.
solo improv, corner, at Anatomy Riot #26, 9/8/08
July 3- 13th, 2008: Eleven Missing Days, a collaborative/hybrid dance/performance/audio project, at the Unknown Theater.
Exploring the presence of absence and inspired by film noir, Eleven Missing Days was created in collaboration with performers Mikki del Monico, Jeremy Hahn, Rachel Lopez, Nancy Sandercock, Rae Shao-Lan Blum; with text by Mikki del Monico, voiceover by Diona Reasonover and Brian Reid; music/sound design by Aaron Drake; lighting design by JaNelle Weatherford.
other recent events I was a part of:
May 30 & 31, 2008: performed in Christine Suarez's Wet Spots: The Story Project
May 1st, 2008, I performed at impresario Marcus Kuiland-Nazario's "Cinco de Maypole" at The Echo.... in the fine company of Nao Bustamante, Ayana Hampton, Kristina Wong, Gregory Barnett, Anna B Scott, Jesse Bonnell and the Poor Dog Group you can read about it on Anna B's AFROLOGICA site...
February 29th, 2008, 8pm
Realigning body space with van space. In the Endurance Van, during Nude Media Night .......
Commitment in confinement - extreme work in the back of a van. As part of Sound in Space"an indiscriminate month of sound performances" curated by Aaron Drake.... at Sea and Space Explorations
4755 York Blvd.
LA, CA 90042
performed at:
"Disturbance" at California Museum of Photography (Riverside), with Dr. Anna B. Scott and Ritsu Katsumata
recent performances:
The Return of Captain Ladyvoice, March, 2007
Highways Performance Space
performers: Gregory Barnett, Jeremy Hahn, Christine Suarez, Meg Wolfe
music by Maria de los Angeles "Cuca" Esteves
Ridicule (2002)
Tangente, Montreal
collaboration with videographer Mikki del Monico
is waiting shining (2001)
The Kitchen, NYC
collaboration with Mikki del Monico
On the west coast, I've performed at Sea and Space Explorations, High Energy Constructs, Highways Performance Space, REDCAT, Sushi/Takeout (San Diego), and Performance Works NorthWest (Portland, OR)
residencies at the Djerassi Resident Artists Program (2005 and 2007). Residency at UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures third annual Hothouse Program (2007)
Prior to moving to L.A., I lived/danced in New York City (1990-2004). I like to go back to visit. Over the years, I presented work in NYC at Collective Unconscious, Dance Theater Workshop, Danspace Project at St. Mark's, The Deviant Playground, Dia Center for the Arts, Highway-NCI/Context Hall, The Kitchen, The Living Theater, Movement Research at Judson Church, Mulberry Street Theater, Nuyorican Poets Café, and the White Box Gallery, among others.
Internationally, I've slept on fellow artists' floors, futons, sofas, (lucky occasions,a hotel) while teaching workshops and/or performing in Azerbaijan, Canada, Ecuador, Finland, France, Ireland, Peru, Russia, Slovakia and Venezuela. I want to travel more. I haven't been to Minneapolis. I want to do a residency in Lapland in December.
The RV Show, Djerassi, 2005
In addition to my own choreography, I've had the pleasure of working with some wonderful, idiosyncratic artists, including Vicky Shick (since 1999); as well as with Sigal Bergman, Yoshiko Chuma/Dagdha Dance Company, Molissa Fenley, Kate Foley, David Alan Harris, Sam Kim, Clarinda Mac Low, Athena Malloy, and Susan Rethorst.
people I've learned from over the years, thank you:
Vicky Shick, Sondra Loring, Vera Mantero, Donna Uchizono, Tere O'Connor, Neil Greenberg, Simone Forti, Jennifer Monson, Marjorie Mussman, Eileen Thomas, K.J.Holmes, Karen Nelson, Christine Wright, Cindy Green, Igal Perry, David Zambrano, Cynthia Novack, Kazuko Hirabayashi, Ze'eva Cohen, Sarah Stackhouse, Kevin Wynn, Mel Wong, Jennifer Church, Sally Topham.........
“A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.” --Albert Einstein
So facebook is going through some sort of maintenace so to get my online community fix i signed onto myspace...and i've decided to publicly remind you just how fucking awesome you are...looking forward to these next two weeks. love, G
Come on kids Just two clicks once a day and you could get me an audition for "The Big Gay Sketch Show" It's easier then taking your birth control and a lot more fun. If you could just cut and paste the link or try Clicking
Meg, Thanks for the add. I hope to get a chance to photograph you in the near future as well. I really appreciate you infusing our community with your ART.
“The gloom of this world is but a shadow. Behind it, yet within reach, is joy. There is a radiance and glory in the darkness, could we but see, and to see, we have only to look. I beseech you to look!
Life is so generous a giver, but we, judging its gifts by their covering, cast them away as ugly, or heavy, or hard. Remove the covering, and you will find beneath it, a living splendour, woven of love, by wisdom, with power. Welcome it, grasp it, and you touch the angel’s hand that brings it to you. Everything we call a trial, a sorrow, or a duty, believe me, that angel’s hand is there, and the wonder of an overshadowing presence. Our joys too; be not content with them as joys. They, too, conceal diviner gifts.
And so, at this time, I greet you. Not quite as the world sends greetings, but with profound esteem and with the prayer that for you, now and forever, the day breaks, and the shadows flee away.” --Fra Giovanni Giocondo
thanks again beautiful for coming out last night. I always feel just a little more empowered when I know you're in the room...and I guess that's a good thing if you're doing an empowered whore piece. Does that mean i can partially blame you for pushing everyone...it came back a little more violent, no? oh well, I'm a good listener so I'll trust this. Let's do something soon, dinner and moving around my(or your) apartment? I played in the living room last sunday night and it's totally conducive for movement. love you so much. xo, your bad ass faggot
