At the Finnish Hall, 1970 Chestnut St, Berkeley, CA 94702
scheduleFriday 7/6
9:30 - 10a Opening circle 10 - 11:30a Lab Class with Kyra Rice 12:30 - 2:30p Feldenkrais with Miranda Janeschild 2:45 - 5p Kinetic Chains with Miranda Janeschild 7 - 9p Therapeutic Applications of the Axis Syllabus Saturday 7/7 10 - 11:30a Lab Class with René Smith 12:30 - 2:30p Feldenkrais with Miranda Janeschild 2:45 - 5p Kinetic Chains with Miranda Janeschild Sunday 7/8 10 - 11:30a Get Up! Get Down Dance Class with Phoenicia Pettyjohn 12:30 - 3:30p Feldenkrais with Miranda Janeschild, Kinetic Chains with Miranda Janeschild - combined class Monday 7/9 10 - 12p Fainting in Coils with Sarah Day Hanson 3 - 5p in.tension.ality: shifting tone with Sebastian Grubb 5:30 - 7p Anatomy Pot-Luck Tuesday 7/10 10 - 12p Fainting in Coils with Sarah Day Hanson 1 - 2:30p Lab Class with Bronwyn Michaels 3 - 5p in.tension.ality: shifting tone with Sebastian Grubb Wednesday 7/11 10 - 12p Fainting in Coils with Sarah Day Hanson 3 - 5p in.tension.ality: shifting tone with Sebastian Grubb 5:30 - 7:30p Capoeira and AS with Nuria Bowart Thursday 7/12 10 - 12p Fainting in Coils with Sarah Day Hanson 1 - 2:30p Lab Class with Rosemary Hannon 3 - 5p in.tension.ality: shifting tone with Sebastian Grubb Friday 7/13 10 - 11:30a Lab Class with Emily Jones 2 - 5p Imploding open Anatomies with Kevin O'Connor 7 - 8p Special performance 8 - 11p Dance Party! Saturday 7/14 10 - 11:30 Lab Class with Sam Stone 2 - 5p Imploding open Anatomies with Kevin O'Connor Sunday 7/15 10a - 1p Returning to the Periphery to Walk With Nature with Lori Halliday 2 - 5p Imploding open Anatomies with Kevin O'Connor |
registrationSee pricing schedules for classes and workshops in the PayPal drop down AND in all course descriptions below (scroll down to workshop and class descriptions).
Ten days of over 55 hours of classes, workshops, and special events. EARLY BIRD PRICING EXTENDED! All prices listed in the registration options will increase incrementally on June 1st and July 5th. Full event pricing schedule:
Pay by Price 6/1 - 7/5 $550 7/6 $600 You may also register via PayPal to: axissyllabusca@gmail.com Please list in the PayPal notes each workshop you are registering for. See pricing schedules for classes and workshops in their descriptions below. |
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workshops
Feldenkrais®: An Advanced Twisting / Side-bending ATM* with Miranda Janeschild
July 6 - 7, 12:30 - 2:30p, July 8 combined class ends at 3:30
Distribution of motion throughout the skeleton is a hallmark of efficient movement, along with a readiness for the body to move in any direction at any time, reverse an action, and recalibrate a direction of motion once an error is detected or if there is an environmental shift. These ideas will guide our inquiry, while the Feldenkrais® method taps a wide scope of sensory tactics to teach the details of advanced movement motifs. We will apply these motifs to dance. This class compliments the “Kinetic Chains” class and is best taken concurrently for the most benefit.
*Wear layers and bring a thick blanket to lie on.
Kinetic Chains: Unraveling Multifaceted Spirals with Miranda Janeschild
July 6 - 7, 2:45 - 5p, July 8 combined class ends at 3:30
The notion that skeletal joints and segments have an effect on one another to create a series of sequential movements is not new to the Axis Syllabus. In this class we will tease out and sort conventional and unconventional kinetic chain movement ideas. Experiencing open chain and closed chain movement and their relationships to distal and proximal supports will be part of our inquiry. Given the transitory nature of a body in motion (especially in dance), the link between supports and sequential joint movement becomes the basis to unravel multifaceted spiraling actions. Kinetic chains and their transmission of force throughout body tissues highlight how muscular activation is the result, not the drive, to make an action to happen. This class compliments the “Feldenkrais Advanced ATM” class and is best taken concurrently for the most benefit.
Bio: Miranda Janeschild is a long-time performing artist, dancer, choreographer, as well as a teacher of Axis Syllabus, contact improvisation and aerial dance. Her Axis Syllabus studies began in 2001, and she became certified to teach in 2006. For 10 years she was Artistic Director of Mir & A Company, a story-telling theatrical aerial dance company comprised of risk taking spiritual seekers. Currently, Miranda works as a pediatric Occupational Therapist and Feldenkrais® Teacher, holding a Masters of Science in Occupational Therapy and specialty certificates in pediatrics, Feldenkrais®, Neuro-Developmental Treatment, Sensory Integration, and Advanced Baby Treatment. She has served children with various special needs for 30 years. She has a private practice specializing in sensory processing, neuromuscular, and orthopedic challenges.
Payment schedule for both workshops: before June 1 $150 | June 1-July 4 $170 | July 5 $200
For one workshop: before June 1 $80 | June 1-July 4 $100 | July 5 $120
July 6 - 7, 12:30 - 2:30p, July 8 combined class ends at 3:30
Distribution of motion throughout the skeleton is a hallmark of efficient movement, along with a readiness for the body to move in any direction at any time, reverse an action, and recalibrate a direction of motion once an error is detected or if there is an environmental shift. These ideas will guide our inquiry, while the Feldenkrais® method taps a wide scope of sensory tactics to teach the details of advanced movement motifs. We will apply these motifs to dance. This class compliments the “Kinetic Chains” class and is best taken concurrently for the most benefit.
*Wear layers and bring a thick blanket to lie on.
Kinetic Chains: Unraveling Multifaceted Spirals with Miranda Janeschild
July 6 - 7, 2:45 - 5p, July 8 combined class ends at 3:30
The notion that skeletal joints and segments have an effect on one another to create a series of sequential movements is not new to the Axis Syllabus. In this class we will tease out and sort conventional and unconventional kinetic chain movement ideas. Experiencing open chain and closed chain movement and their relationships to distal and proximal supports will be part of our inquiry. Given the transitory nature of a body in motion (especially in dance), the link between supports and sequential joint movement becomes the basis to unravel multifaceted spiraling actions. Kinetic chains and their transmission of force throughout body tissues highlight how muscular activation is the result, not the drive, to make an action to happen. This class compliments the “Feldenkrais Advanced ATM” class and is best taken concurrently for the most benefit.
Bio: Miranda Janeschild is a long-time performing artist, dancer, choreographer, as well as a teacher of Axis Syllabus, contact improvisation and aerial dance. Her Axis Syllabus studies began in 2001, and she became certified to teach in 2006. For 10 years she was Artistic Director of Mir & A Company, a story-telling theatrical aerial dance company comprised of risk taking spiritual seekers. Currently, Miranda works as a pediatric Occupational Therapist and Feldenkrais® Teacher, holding a Masters of Science in Occupational Therapy and specialty certificates in pediatrics, Feldenkrais®, Neuro-Developmental Treatment, Sensory Integration, and Advanced Baby Treatment. She has served children with various special needs for 30 years. She has a private practice specializing in sensory processing, neuromuscular, and orthopedic challenges.
Payment schedule for both workshops: before June 1 $150 | June 1-July 4 $170 | July 5 $200
For one workshop: before June 1 $80 | June 1-July 4 $100 | July 5 $120
Fainting in Coils: Chronological Architecture and Curvilinear Cultivation with Sarah Day Hanson
July 9 - 12, 10a - 12p
How much time is given within a fall? How many moments of choice might we activate on the way down? And what energy can be harnessed for the return ascent? We will explore the lusciousness of sequential movement, thrill of acceleration, and time-stretching deceleration. Attention will be given to spinal design, the arcing pathways proposed by joint articulations, tone modulation, and feedback loops between proximal and distal body masses to find timely and structurally sound support as we carve through space.
Bio: Since 2003 Sarah has been professionally facilitating embodied awareness through movement education and hands on bodywork. She is a Certified Axis Syllabus Teacher, which she began studying in 2006 with Frey Faust in the US and Europe. Sarah’s approach to the body as an expressive instrument is grounded in her long engagement with anatomy, biomechanics, contemporary dance practices, varied movement and somatic arts, performance, CI, site-specifics, and interdisciplinary visual art. Sarah holds a BA from San Francisco State University in Studio Art and Art History. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Sarah teaches ongoing Axis Syllabus classes, maintains a private bodywork practice, and is a member of the clinically oriented team at Psoas in SF.
Payment schedule: before June 1: $100 | June 1-July 4: $125 | July 5: $150
July 9 - 12, 10a - 12p
How much time is given within a fall? How many moments of choice might we activate on the way down? And what energy can be harnessed for the return ascent? We will explore the lusciousness of sequential movement, thrill of acceleration, and time-stretching deceleration. Attention will be given to spinal design, the arcing pathways proposed by joint articulations, tone modulation, and feedback loops between proximal and distal body masses to find timely and structurally sound support as we carve through space.
Bio: Since 2003 Sarah has been professionally facilitating embodied awareness through movement education and hands on bodywork. She is a Certified Axis Syllabus Teacher, which she began studying in 2006 with Frey Faust in the US and Europe. Sarah’s approach to the body as an expressive instrument is grounded in her long engagement with anatomy, biomechanics, contemporary dance practices, varied movement and somatic arts, performance, CI, site-specifics, and interdisciplinary visual art. Sarah holds a BA from San Francisco State University in Studio Art and Art History. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Sarah teaches ongoing Axis Syllabus classes, maintains a private bodywork practice, and is a member of the clinically oriented team at Psoas in SF.
Payment schedule: before June 1: $100 | June 1-July 4: $125 | July 5: $150
in.tension.ality: shifting tone with Sebastian Grubb
July 9 - 12, 3 - 5p
Tone is the level of tension within muscles and other soft-tissue structures. How do changes in passive and active tone create different movement possibilities? How does “intentional tension” unify the body for a more harmonious movement and dance experience?
Bio: Sebastian Grubb is an award-winning dance artist and personal fitness trainer in San Francisco. Certified as an Axis Syllabus teacher since 2011, he teaches workshops and classes that bridge biomechanics, dance, fitness, and community. www.sebastian.fit | www.bodywagging.dance
Payment schedule: before June 1: $100 | June 1-July 4: $125 | July 5: $150
July 9 - 12, 3 - 5p
Tone is the level of tension within muscles and other soft-tissue structures. How do changes in passive and active tone create different movement possibilities? How does “intentional tension” unify the body for a more harmonious movement and dance experience?
Bio: Sebastian Grubb is an award-winning dance artist and personal fitness trainer in San Francisco. Certified as an Axis Syllabus teacher since 2011, he teaches workshops and classes that bridge biomechanics, dance, fitness, and community. www.sebastian.fit | www.bodywagging.dance
Payment schedule: before June 1: $100 | June 1-July 4: $125 | July 5: $150
Imploding open Anatomies with Kevin O'Connor
July 13 - 15, 2 - 5p
This is a movement class exploring anatomies in the making. It is a waking up to connections. Coffee is not enough, alas. Necessary for some of us, but not enough to properly wake up to the connectedness of the world, to our connectedness to ways of making bodies and making worlds. How do muscles, bones, fascia contain their histories without our being aware of them? What power dynamics are at play in these histories? What models do we think bodies with? How do they move us generatively in some ways and not others? Come prepared to move and think and cultivate new sensibilities as we ask: can engaging emerging biologies as non-essentializing entanglements offer us different ways of training our attention and body-minds.
Bio: Kevin O’Connor is a multidisciplinary artist working as a choreographer, dancer, improviser, circus artist and installation artist from Ontario, Canada and now based in the Bay area. He is involved in a decade-long artistic collective exploring participatory de-colonizing performances within polluted watersheds in Ontario. Over the last few years, he has worked with NAKA, Shakiri and Skywatchers in the Bay Area, Oncogrrrls feminist art collective in Spain, and collaborated with Inuit hunter and designer Paulette Metuq on a project in Nunavut in the Canadian Arctic. He has been learning with the axis syllabus community for over a decade and is a biodynamic cranial sacral practitioner. He completed an MFA in choreography and is currently finishing a Ph.D. in performance studies at UC Davis. HIs research examines anatomies, body performance capacities, interventions and imaginations in relation to science studies, including the becoming material-bio-capital tissue called fascia.
Pricing schedule: Before June 1: $110 | June 1-July 4: $125 | after July 5: $150
Register via PayPal to: axissyllabusca@gmail.com
July 13 - 15, 2 - 5p
This is a movement class exploring anatomies in the making. It is a waking up to connections. Coffee is not enough, alas. Necessary for some of us, but not enough to properly wake up to the connectedness of the world, to our connectedness to ways of making bodies and making worlds. How do muscles, bones, fascia contain their histories without our being aware of them? What power dynamics are at play in these histories? What models do we think bodies with? How do they move us generatively in some ways and not others? Come prepared to move and think and cultivate new sensibilities as we ask: can engaging emerging biologies as non-essentializing entanglements offer us different ways of training our attention and body-minds.
Bio: Kevin O’Connor is a multidisciplinary artist working as a choreographer, dancer, improviser, circus artist and installation artist from Ontario, Canada and now based in the Bay area. He is involved in a decade-long artistic collective exploring participatory de-colonizing performances within polluted watersheds in Ontario. Over the last few years, he has worked with NAKA, Shakiri and Skywatchers in the Bay Area, Oncogrrrls feminist art collective in Spain, and collaborated with Inuit hunter and designer Paulette Metuq on a project in Nunavut in the Canadian Arctic. He has been learning with the axis syllabus community for over a decade and is a biodynamic cranial sacral practitioner. He completed an MFA in choreography and is currently finishing a Ph.D. in performance studies at UC Davis. HIs research examines anatomies, body performance capacities, interventions and imaginations in relation to science studies, including the becoming material-bio-capital tissue called fascia.
Pricing schedule: Before June 1: $110 | June 1-July 4: $125 | after July 5: $150
Register via PayPal to: axissyllabusca@gmail.com
classes
Sunday Morning Get Down with PHOENICIA PETTYJOHN: Or Get UP! It’s time for Dance Class.
July 8, 10 - 11:30a
This one off class is offered in the style of a studio drop-in class. We’ll warm-up, question and move together. Let’s take our questions and movement inquiries and weave them into the practice of “taking class”.
Bio: Phoenicia Pettyjohn is a SF resident, movement artist, educator and certified Axis Syllabus teacher. She brings her life long love of taking dance class to her teachings of contemporary dance and other forms. Current performance collaborators include Aura Fischbeck Dance and Catherine Galasso.
Price schedule: Before June 1: $20 | after July 5: $30
July 8, 10 - 11:30a
This one off class is offered in the style of a studio drop-in class. We’ll warm-up, question and move together. Let’s take our questions and movement inquiries and weave them into the practice of “taking class”.
Bio: Phoenicia Pettyjohn is a SF resident, movement artist, educator and certified Axis Syllabus teacher. She brings her life long love of taking dance class to her teachings of contemporary dance and other forms. Current performance collaborators include Aura Fischbeck Dance and Catherine Galasso.
Price schedule: Before June 1: $20 | after July 5: $30
Capoeira and The Axis Syllabus with Nuria Bowart
July 11, 5:30 - 7:30p
Within Capoeira is a helical intelligence that utilizes elastic recoil and spiraling ramps. In Capoeira we use spiraling ramps, and our own network of tension and joint articulations to navigate the terrain between the Earth and Sky. Using the soft and strong surfaces of our bodies we can manage a force like gravity, with grace. This class is focusing on moving in and out of the floor in partners and will involve the use of high dynamics, strength and coordination.
Bio: Nuria Bowart is a movement artist, a healer, a teacher and a mother. She has been dancing her whole life and has spent more than two decades teaching Capoeira, improvisation and partner dance of various types. Nuria is an avid student and teacher of anatomy. She is a teacher of the Axis Syllabus, and has a private practice as a Rolfer. Nuria enjoys snuggling with her kids and making movement games.
Price schedule: Before June 1: $25 | June 1-July 4: $35 | after July 5: $45
July 11, 5:30 - 7:30p
Within Capoeira is a helical intelligence that utilizes elastic recoil and spiraling ramps. In Capoeira we use spiraling ramps, and our own network of tension and joint articulations to navigate the terrain between the Earth and Sky. Using the soft and strong surfaces of our bodies we can manage a force like gravity, with grace. This class is focusing on moving in and out of the floor in partners and will involve the use of high dynamics, strength and coordination.
Bio: Nuria Bowart is a movement artist, a healer, a teacher and a mother. She has been dancing her whole life and has spent more than two decades teaching Capoeira, improvisation and partner dance of various types. Nuria is an avid student and teacher of anatomy. She is a teacher of the Axis Syllabus, and has a private practice as a Rolfer. Nuria enjoys snuggling with her kids and making movement games.
Price schedule: Before June 1: $25 | June 1-July 4: $35 | after July 5: $45
Returning to the periphery to walk with nature with Lori Halliday
July 15, 10a - 1p
Lessons on rising and falling with a 360 degree perspective. Exploring the approaches animals take to rising and falling as one ambles through nature encountering human and spacial changes with readiness and relaxation.
Bio: Lori Halliday has been immersed in movement practices for the last 20 years including the Axis Syllabus International research community Gyrotonic, Pilates, Natural Horsemanahip and Equine Experiential Learning. Her research and passion continue to develop with the herd in the Santa Cruz mountains at Horse And Heart Ranch where she studies and teaches with horses and humans.
Price schedule: Before June 1: $30 | June 1-July 4: $40 | after July 5: $50
Register via PayPal to: axissyllabusca@gmail.com
July 15, 10a - 1p
Lessons on rising and falling with a 360 degree perspective. Exploring the approaches animals take to rising and falling as one ambles through nature encountering human and spacial changes with readiness and relaxation.
Bio: Lori Halliday has been immersed in movement practices for the last 20 years including the Axis Syllabus International research community Gyrotonic, Pilates, Natural Horsemanahip and Equine Experiential Learning. Her research and passion continue to develop with the herd in the Santa Cruz mountains at Horse And Heart Ranch where she studies and teaches with horses and humans.
Price schedule: Before June 1: $30 | June 1-July 4: $40 | after July 5: $50
Register via PayPal to: axissyllabusca@gmail.com
Axis Syllabus teacher candidate lab classes - $10
Soft Tissue, Support, and Sequential Returns with Kyra Rice
July 6, 10 - 11:30a
Landing and launching pads (LLPs) is a term specific to the Axis Syllabus and refers to the soft tissue areas of the body that provide weight bearing support, like the muscular mounds on the palms of the hands. Whether you are rolling along the surface of the earth, climbing a vertical rock wall, wrapped in and hanging from silks, or swinging upside down from a tree limb, the LLPs are the shock absorbing managers of the energy we generate in dynamic movement. In this class we will explore the LLPs and effective sequential pathways to accessing them for pivoting, launching from, and returning for safe landings. **Wear sleeves or some sort of arm covering.
Bio: Kyra Rice began life long learning about her particular body's potential as a competitive gymnast, became a Grand Prix level Dressage equestrian, a dancer, professional skier, white water kayaker, and bio-intensive food gardener. She was awarded a scholarship to the Nicholias/Louis Foundation for Dance as a young adult, studied and performed in New York; and from 2009 - 2015 crafted diverse bodies and movement into more than 20 performances, happenings and radical interventions in the San Francisco queer arts scene focusing on the body as nature resource in urban environments and intimacy of place. She has been studying with the Axis Syllabus for 8 years and is a third year teacher candidate. She currently lives on the land of the Yuki people (Mendocino coast), building soil and tending to the environment. She leads an AS workgroup there, studies with Ann Woodhead in Functional Movement, and has worked in collaboration with James Humecky's Movement-Based Integrative Bodywork.
July 6, 10 - 11:30a
Landing and launching pads (LLPs) is a term specific to the Axis Syllabus and refers to the soft tissue areas of the body that provide weight bearing support, like the muscular mounds on the palms of the hands. Whether you are rolling along the surface of the earth, climbing a vertical rock wall, wrapped in and hanging from silks, or swinging upside down from a tree limb, the LLPs are the shock absorbing managers of the energy we generate in dynamic movement. In this class we will explore the LLPs and effective sequential pathways to accessing them for pivoting, launching from, and returning for safe landings. **Wear sleeves or some sort of arm covering.
Bio: Kyra Rice began life long learning about her particular body's potential as a competitive gymnast, became a Grand Prix level Dressage equestrian, a dancer, professional skier, white water kayaker, and bio-intensive food gardener. She was awarded a scholarship to the Nicholias/Louis Foundation for Dance as a young adult, studied and performed in New York; and from 2009 - 2015 crafted diverse bodies and movement into more than 20 performances, happenings and radical interventions in the San Francisco queer arts scene focusing on the body as nature resource in urban environments and intimacy of place. She has been studying with the Axis Syllabus for 8 years and is a third year teacher candidate. She currently lives on the land of the Yuki people (Mendocino coast), building soil and tending to the environment. She leads an AS workgroup there, studies with Ann Woodhead in Functional Movement, and has worked in collaboration with James Humecky's Movement-Based Integrative Bodywork.
10 pound Mass with René Smith
July 7, 10 - 11:30
The Head! How does the head relate to the cervical spine? How does the head relate to the pelvis? How does the head relate to the extremities? As members of a community, how do our parts relate, respond, support, or conflict. Using rhythm, anatomies and imagery we will move through personal inquiry and proposed sequences to explore the head as a motor mass. All experience levels welcome!
Bio: Rene´Soulier Smith is a person who likes to dance, to move and to learn. She is fascinated by the human body and it's wide capacity to adapt, change, create habits, and rewire habits. Rene´ lives in Portland Oregon and has been studying the Axis Syllabus since 2004.
July 7, 10 - 11:30
The Head! How does the head relate to the cervical spine? How does the head relate to the pelvis? How does the head relate to the extremities? As members of a community, how do our parts relate, respond, support, or conflict. Using rhythm, anatomies and imagery we will move through personal inquiry and proposed sequences to explore the head as a motor mass. All experience levels welcome!
Bio: Rene´Soulier Smith is a person who likes to dance, to move and to learn. She is fascinated by the human body and it's wide capacity to adapt, change, create habits, and rewire habits. Rene´ lives in Portland Oregon and has been studying the Axis Syllabus since 2004.
Arms, shoulders, and mobility with Bronwyn Ayla
July 10, 1 - 2:30
We will explore the relationship between shoulder blade, chest, and arm motion in slow exploration and more dynamic movements. Come pulse, dive, swing, and spiral in finding a sense of integration and aliveness. Suitable for beginners.
Bio: Bronwyn Ayla (Michaelis) is devoted to dance as a sacred practice that encourages the full embodiment of ourselves in our lives. She draws on her training in anatomy, developmental movement, Chinese medicine, Body-Mind Centering, circus arts, body psychotherapy, yoga, and Continuum. She has a clinical practice where she treats people with a combination of acupuncture, plant medicine, ritual, Rosen Method Bodywork, Reiki, and nutrition. Inherent in her philosophy is the inseparable relationship between healing and dance.
July 10, 1 - 2:30
We will explore the relationship between shoulder blade, chest, and arm motion in slow exploration and more dynamic movements. Come pulse, dive, swing, and spiral in finding a sense of integration and aliveness. Suitable for beginners.
Bio: Bronwyn Ayla (Michaelis) is devoted to dance as a sacred practice that encourages the full embodiment of ourselves in our lives. She draws on her training in anatomy, developmental movement, Chinese medicine, Body-Mind Centering, circus arts, body psychotherapy, yoga, and Continuum. She has a clinical practice where she treats people with a combination of acupuncture, plant medicine, ritual, Rosen Method Bodywork, Reiki, and nutrition. Inherent in her philosophy is the inseparable relationship between healing and dance.
Sharing the Curve with Rosemary Hannon
July 12, 1 - 2:30
Osculation is also a term in geometry that describes the place where two curves or surfaces come into contact, or where their common tangent exists. Using the triaxial reality of side-bending for shared support, we will find shared curves. Building from the ground up, we will analyze rolling patterns in preparation for dynamic partnering interactions.
Bio: Rosemary Hannon, MA, is a performer, choreographer and dance teacher. She has been informed by a Contact Improvisation performance and teaching practice since 2004 when she assisted Vitali Kononov teaching at the American Dance Festival. She has taught at colleges and festivals including: The West Coast Contact Improvisation Jam, The Sierra Contact Festival, and The Seattle Festival of Dance Improvisation. She has spent 20 years teaching children, working with arts education organizations and organizing dance events.
July 12, 1 - 2:30
Osculation is also a term in geometry that describes the place where two curves or surfaces come into contact, or where their common tangent exists. Using the triaxial reality of side-bending for shared support, we will find shared curves. Building from the ground up, we will analyze rolling patterns in preparation for dynamic partnering interactions.
Bio: Rosemary Hannon, MA, is a performer, choreographer and dance teacher. She has been informed by a Contact Improvisation performance and teaching practice since 2004 when she assisted Vitali Kononov teaching at the American Dance Festival. She has taught at colleges and festivals including: The West Coast Contact Improvisation Jam, The Sierra Contact Festival, and The Seattle Festival of Dance Improvisation. She has spent 20 years teaching children, working with arts education organizations and organizing dance events.
Fallow your Breath with Emily Jones
July 13, 10 - 11:30a
In this class we will rely on our breath as a fundamental organizing force. Attuning to our personal experience as breathing beings, as well as experimenting with theories derived from the study of anatomy and physiology. Through inhale and exhale we will familiarize ourselves with the sensation of rise and fall, tapping into the propulsive nature of cyclical breaths. Using this experience, we will translate the microcosm of breathing into the macrocosm of traversing movement.
Bio: Emily Jones is a movement teacher and artist based in Portland, Oregon. She teaches Pilates and various dance formats. She is passionate about movement as a form of expression and a conduit for healing. Emily is currently an Axis Syllabus Teacher Candidate; this work has deeply influenced her practice and perspective. She has performed with a variety of choreographers and performers in Portland and San Francisco, and also makes her own work. www.emilyannejones.com
July 13, 10 - 11:30a
In this class we will rely on our breath as a fundamental organizing force. Attuning to our personal experience as breathing beings, as well as experimenting with theories derived from the study of anatomy and physiology. Through inhale and exhale we will familiarize ourselves with the sensation of rise and fall, tapping into the propulsive nature of cyclical breaths. Using this experience, we will translate the microcosm of breathing into the macrocosm of traversing movement.
Bio: Emily Jones is a movement teacher and artist based in Portland, Oregon. She teaches Pilates and various dance formats. She is passionate about movement as a form of expression and a conduit for healing. Emily is currently an Axis Syllabus Teacher Candidate; this work has deeply influenced her practice and perspective. She has performed with a variety of choreographers and performers in Portland and San Francisco, and also makes her own work. www.emilyannejones.com
Tug-a Chugga Choo Choo - Finding the Lead and Lag of Sequential Movement with Sam Stone
July 14th, 10-11:30p
The body is full of trains that motor us along. In this class we will investigate the lead and lag, or ‘tug’, effect of sequential movement found by chaining our motoric masses together and choosing to separate or gather their weight for progressing movement along.
Bio:
Sam Stone is a dance performance artists, teacher, community organizer and creator in the Bay Area. Sam has presented work in theaters in and outside of the US, but prefers enchanting the homes and found spaces that she passes with art and design. Ms. Sam teaches creative dance to children with the San Francisco Arts Education Project, while Sam facilitates Axis Syllabus workgroups on her way to becoming a teacher. As a dance advocate, Sam participates in the collective vîv, who offers space (“Free Up the Space”), class (“Peer Practices”) and opportunities to underserved local choreographers. Sam values the expression, freedom and play that dance offers and always pushes for arts awareness and opportunity for all.
July 14th, 10-11:30p
The body is full of trains that motor us along. In this class we will investigate the lead and lag, or ‘tug’, effect of sequential movement found by chaining our motoric masses together and choosing to separate or gather their weight for progressing movement along.
Bio:
Sam Stone is a dance performance artists, teacher, community organizer and creator in the Bay Area. Sam has presented work in theaters in and outside of the US, but prefers enchanting the homes and found spaces that she passes with art and design. Ms. Sam teaches creative dance to children with the San Francisco Arts Education Project, while Sam facilitates Axis Syllabus workgroups on her way to becoming a teacher. As a dance advocate, Sam participates in the collective vîv, who offers space (“Free Up the Space”), class (“Peer Practices”) and opportunities to underserved local choreographers. Sam values the expression, freedom and play that dance offers and always pushes for arts awareness and opportunity for all.
special events
JULY 6 7 - 9p
Therapeutic Applications of the Axis Syllabus
This is an opportunity to ask questions and hear from certified Axis Syllabus teachers who are applying the AS to therapeutic situations. The panel will be made up of Practitioners of Feldenkrais, Rolfing, Massage, Occupational Therapy and Equine Therapy.
JULY 9 5:30 - 7p
Anatomy Pot-Luck
location TBA
JULY 13
Special Performance & Dance Party
Register via PayPal to: axissyllabusca@gmail.com
Therapeutic Applications of the Axis Syllabus
This is an opportunity to ask questions and hear from certified Axis Syllabus teachers who are applying the AS to therapeutic situations. The panel will be made up of Practitioners of Feldenkrais, Rolfing, Massage, Occupational Therapy and Equine Therapy.
JULY 9 5:30 - 7p
Anatomy Pot-Luck
location TBA
JULY 13
Special Performance & Dance Party
Register via PayPal to: axissyllabusca@gmail.com
Sebastian Grubb