Awesome Classes from guest artists in downtown community's favorite teachers at Affordable Cost with Great Friends. Every Monday-Friday, 10-12pm.
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- New York, NY
- Mon - Fri:
- 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
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Tuesday, October 27 at 10:00am - New Session, New Classes
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Monday, October 26 at 10:00am - Kira Blazek @ 100 Grand
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Monday, November 23 at 10:00am - Barbara Mahler @ 100 Grand
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Friday, September 18 at 10:00am - Lindsey Dietz-Marchant @ 100 G...
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Monday, November 16 at 10:00am - Julie Bour @ 100 Grand
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Tuesday, November 10 at 10:00am - Daniel Charon @ 100 Grand
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Monday, November 2 at 10:00am - Darrin Wright @ 100 Grand
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Tuesday, October 6 at 10:00am - Darrin Wright @ 100 Grand
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Tuesday, September 22 at 10:00am - Daniel Charon @ 100 Grand
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Monday, September 14 at 10:00am
100 Grand THIS WEEK: Jeanine Durning returns to NYC and shares her insights in a full week of classes! Learn more about Jeanine at her website, www.jeaninedurning.com
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CLASS DESCRIPTION
Kira teaches a standing contemporary technique class, highly influenced by Anouk van Dijk’s counter-technique. The class begins with a methodical warm-up to free the joints and bring awareness to body directions, but then progresses quickly into dynamic floor phrases full of counter-balancing and space...-eating.
Kira also practices Alexander technique, yoga, and occasionally ballet which allows for some cross referencing. Her class will leave you ready for the rest of your day.
BIOGRAPHY
Kira Blazek trained for 10 years at the Houston Ballet Academy, before switching gears at Oklahoma University where she received her BFA in modern dance. Since then she has performed with Hedwig Dances, Hubbard Street 2, Bill Young/Colleen Thomas, Douglas Dunn & Dancers, and Anouk van Dijk dc (the Netherlands). Kira met Anouk in 2005 at ADF and has pursued knowledge of Anouk’s counter-technique since then, whilst maintaining a dance career in the States.
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Classes are $12
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please see video below for more on counter-technique
Mon/Tue/Wed - Nov 23-Nov 25
Time:10:00AM Monday, November 23rd
Location:100 Grand
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Lindsey and her partner Jason Dietz Marchant are freelance dance artists based in NYC, creating and performing work together over 11 years throughout the US and internationally.
Recent awards and commissions include commission from Dance New Amsterdam for half of the room, commission from Danspace Project in 2007 for In...flatable Man, Evaporating Woman (excerpt presented again by Dance Theater Workshop);
Artists in Residence, University of Michigan; guest residency, University of New South Wales Sydney, Australia; generous space grants Melbourne, Australia by DanceHouse, Lucy Guerin Inc. Studios, and Victoria College of the Arts. They have taught and set repertory internationally at Universities and Art Conservatories such as Julliard School of Performing Arts (NYC), SUNY (Purchase, NY), Bennington College (VT), La Guardia High School for the Performing Arts (NYC), The Art Institute of Indonesia, Chunky Move (Melbourne, Australia) and Modern Guest Artist Series at Dance New Amsterdam.
Upcoming work includes a 2009 tour to Russia and to the midwest, NYC curated performances presented by 92nd Street Y (Oct 3), Dancenow NYC at Dance Theater Workshop (Oct 29), and Estrogenius, a festival celebrating female artists. In addition,
Lindsey and Jason dance for artists such as Monica Bill Barnes, Aszure Barton, Janis Brenner, Curt Haworth, Dean Moss, Neta Pulvermacher, Tami Stronach, Kate Weare, and Pavel Zustiak (Palissimo) among many others.
www.dietzmarchant.com
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Single Class is $12. Save when you buy a 10-class card for $11 / Class.
See 100 Grand's Fan Page for video.
Mon/Tue/Wed/Thur - Nov 16-Nov 19
Time:10:00AM Monday, November 16th
Location:100 Grand
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CLASS DESCRIPTION
Julie is currently teaching in New York City at Dance New Amsterdam, Steps on Broadway, Cedar Lake Company, the Joffrey Ballet School, Peridance Center and the Panetta Movement Center.
Her class incorporates all the different experiences she accumulated through out her carreer and will encourage you to ...bring details and quality in any given choreography.
While exploring new balances through energy and movement she encourages dancers to define new counterweights necessary to support directional and level change. Resulting in increased accuracy in speed and control, the goal is to help students being specific and unique, to allow them to form their own qualities within various choreographic styles and phrases.
BIOGRAPHY
Native of France, Julie trained in Ballet and Modern dance. After graduating from the Conservatoire de Paris where she performed works of Maguy Marin, Dominique Bagouet and Jennifer Muller, she started working with Ballet Preljocaj. She danced major roles with the company and received a Bessie Award for her interpretation of “Annonciation”. Then she performed for the Cave Canem Company in France, travelled to Israel to work with the Pinto Dance Company and relocated to North America several years ago. She started exploring the theatrical aspect of dance through different crossover works like Julie Taymorʼs Opera Grendel and started her own choreographic work.
She is the co-founder of The Flying Mammoth, a production company created in 2006 as a bridge between art worlds, consulting and linking people at different stage of a creation process. She is also currently assisting Angelin Preljocaj restaging his repertory and lives in New York City where she teaches and choreographs.
For more, visit Julie's website: http://www.juliebour.com
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Time:10:00AM Tuesday, October 27th
Location:100 Grand
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CLASS DESCRIPTION:
Class is based on full awareness by finding organic patterns through contradictions. Time is devoted to exploring how the body moves through space and how a simple starting point can trickle into a series of events. With basic principles, we incorporate simple patterns allowing us to challenge ourse...lves and move our bodies fully through continuous movements.
BIOGRAPHY:
Darrin M. Wright, (Dancer) is a native of Los Angeles, California where he started tap dancing at the age of six. His early trainings were taking tap classes which lead into jazz with Ian Gary; learning about choreography and performing in high school with Janet Roston; taking post modern dance with Rudy Perez.
In 1997, Darrin joined the Bella Lewitzky Dance Company as part of its farewell tour. He received his BFA in dance from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 2002. Since graduation, Darrin has had the pleasure of working with Susan Marshall, Terry Creach, Bill Young/Colleen Thomas, Yanira Castro, Jack Ferver, Tami Stronach, Amber Sloan, Jane Comfort, Linsey Bostwick and Nina Winthrop.
Darrin teaches master classes in technique, composition and improvisation throughout the country. Currently Darrin lives in Brooklyn, New York.
One More Week! Tue/Thur, Oct 6-8
Time:10:00AM Tuesday, October 6th
Location:100 Grand
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Bill Young / Colleen Thomas & Guests in
the next edition of their site-specific / alternative-space extravaganza that originated last year,
this time created especially for studio theater of Dance New Amsterdam.
with Guest Artists
Bryan Kepple
&
Julia Burrer
Daniel Clifton
Ted Johnson
Anthony Phillips
Marc Mann
Mega...n McQuillan
Pedro Osorio
Jenna Riegel
Alfonso Suarez
Darrin Wright
Jason Somma, video
Rebecca Makus, lights
Georgios Kontos, music
Rachel Jones, costumes
Seating very Limited!
*Party opens 8p, show follows
New Life, New Show, New Party!
Time:8:00PM Wednesday, September 16th
Location:Dance New Amsterdam (DNA)
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CLASS DESCRIPTION
Barbara Mahler is a long-standing and active member of the New York City dance community as a choreographer, performer and teacher. Her choreography draws upon the intricate and infinite possibilities of the textures of time, space and the (her) body to create dances, which subtly reveal characters, em...otions and stories.
Her choreography is consistent with her teaching vision and work, exploring the endless possibilities that the body can reveal, spare and articulate, emotional, compositional, evocative, moving.
Barbara teaches (almost) daily class, and has since 1983, creates dances and is a certified teacher and practitioner of Zero Balancing, hands on healing modality.
BIOGRAPHY
Barbara Mahler, formerly of the Klein/Mahler School of Dance and Movement Studies, taught daily classes for 28 years plus, educating and teaching (with, and inspired by Susan Klein) a generation of dancers. She is s a widely respected dance teacher and choreographer, very active in the development of post modern dance technique.
She has traveled extensively as a guest choreographer/teacher/performer around the globe receiving commissions, grants, and space grants, including the Sage Cowles Land Grant, from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, the Skolen for Moderne Dance, Denmark, The Harkness Center, NYC (92 Street Y and Hunter College), New Dance Lab (MPLS), Meet the Composers, Dance Alliansen, Sweden, among others.
Essentially self-taught, she brings to her classes the perspective, understanding and experience of working on her own movement re-education. Klein technique, first begun by Susan Klein in 1972, continues to grow and develop with the teachings of Susan Klein, Barbara Mahler, and the outreach of their students. It is a dance/movement technique that works from the premise that the requirements of movement and daily life are essentially the same.
The purpose of the work done in class is to re-educate one’s body, with an interweaving of theory and practice on a physical and organic level. The result is clarity and sureness of movement, and a new level of understanding the innate intelligence of one’s body. The class is open to all levels, dancers and non-dancers alike. Everyone works at their own level, and a deep internal understanding of ones’ unique body produces efficiency and fluidity of movement, as well as strength (coordination,) power, grounded ness and power.
Barbara was a Movement Research artist in residence for the 2000-01 and the 2006-08 season, a movement consultant at Hunter College, NYC, and a recent graduate from the MFA program at the University Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Pioneer dance anatomist Dorothy Vislocky, originally inspired Barbara, as well as studies with Dr. Fritz Smith, Collette Barry. She also maintains a private practice in Zero Balancing (senior faculty) and other healing modalities.
For more, visit http://www.barbaramahler.net
Join Barbara's Group Page: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=53
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Check out Barbara's new evening, ROOTS, at Greenspace, September 19th, 8:30pm
(DanceEntropy.com)
Fridays, Sept 18-Nov 20
Time:10:00AM Friday, September 18th
Location:100 Grand
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CLASS DESCRIPTION
This technique class strives to help a dancer achieve their individual goals by working towards a strong technical foundation, artistry in movement, and dancing from a neutral, relaxed body. Fundamental elements such as suspension, release, opposition and focus will be isolated in individual exercises... and then utilized in movement phrases to help achieve these goals. A strong relationship to plie, space, and a weighty pelvis will also be emphasized and explored. The dancer will be encouraged to cultivate individual expression within the confines of set material in an effort to develop a unique dancing voice.
BIOGRAPHY
Daniel was a full-time member of Doug Varone and Dancers from 1999 - 2009 where he served as dancer and rehearsal director. He also danced with the Limón Company for three years and has performed with numerous other dance, theater, and opera companies.
Daniel has taught regularly since 1996 at venues including the Limón Institute, Dance New Amsterdam, the 92nd Street Y, Peridance Center, the Metropolitan Opera, the Bates Dance Festival, and the Dance Complex in Boston, MA.
Daniel also creates and presents his own choreography. For video, scroll to the bottom of his webpage: http://www.danielcharon.com/choreography
Photo credit: Liza Voll
Mon/Wed, Sept 14-Sept 23
Time:10:00AM Monday, September 14th
Location:100 Grand
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Molly Poerstel graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University on a Dean of the Arts Scholarship for Dance and Choreography. She has been grateful to participate in work with artists: David Grenke, Barbara Grubel, Mark Jarecke, Susan Rethorst, Hilary Clark, Alex Escalante, Larissa Valez and visual artist Terri Rosenbe...rg, among others. Ms. Poerstel has been a collaborator with Jeanine Durning since 2001 and a member of David Dorfman Dance Company since 2005.
She is inspired by studying with Anatomist Irene Dowd, and works to infuse this information into teaching and performing.
Ms. Poerstel has taught as a guest artist at Dance New Amsterdam, CLASSCLASSCLASS, and 100 Grand Street in New York City as well as at the The Open Look Festival Op in St. Petersburg, Russia. Currently, she is on Dance Faculty at the Dalton School where she teaches Intermediate Dance Technique and Creative movement.
Tuesday and Thursday, Aug 18-20
Time:10:00AM Tuesday, August 18th
Location:100 Grand
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(MFA: University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, 2006; BFA in Dance University of Michigan,1994) is the Artistic Director of Alexandra Beller/Dances. As a member of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company (1995-2001), she performed in over 50 countries and throughout the U.S. and has staged work by Bill T. Jones. She hel...ped to create “The Belle Epoch,” (Martha Clarke and Charles Mee). She was a 2 year Artist in Residence at HERE Art Space, and has also been an AIR at Dance New Amsterdam.
Alexandra is a faculty member at Dance New Amsterdam and has taught at the Atlantic Theater School, The New School, 92nd St Y, The Spence School and St. Anne's School and at universities throughout the United States. She was a visiting artist at APA, CCDC, and DanceArt in Hong Kong, D-Dance Festival in Korea, Den Nordk Balletthoskole in Oslo, Henny Jurriens Stichting in Amsterdam, Open Look Festival in St. Petersburg, and Cyprus Summer Festival in Nicosia. She was a guest choreographer at the U of Michigan, Rhode Island College, The U of South Florida, MIT, Texas Woman's University, Connecticut College, Texas Christian University, and Bates College, among others. She received an NCCI commission from Montclair State University to serve as adjunct faculty and guest choreographer in 2003/2004.
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This class explores the qualities of released and off-balance dancing while daring students to find disparate qualities of stillness and explosion. Students are encouraged to develop an individual style driven by their internal life and the specificity of their bodies. By researching movement tasks as opposed to recreating shapes, students will begin to solve kinesthetic problems in a profound and personal way. We will focus on becoming compelling and magnetic performers, and working within a broad range of movements: vigorous, athletic, gestural and theatrical.
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Classes are $12, Save with a 10-Class Card ($11 / class)
Tue/Thur, July 28-August 13
Time:10:00AM Tuesday, July 28th
Location:100 Grand
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In 1997, Darrin joined the Bella Lewitzky Dance Company as part of its farewell tour. He received his BFA in dance from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 2002.
Since graduation, Darrin has had the pleasure of working with Susan Marshall, Terry Creach, Bill Young/Colleen Thomas, Yanira Castro, Jack Ferver,... Tami Stronach, Amber Sloan, Jane Comfort, Linsey Bostwick and Nina Winthrop.
Darrin teaches master classes in technique, composition and improvisation throughout the country. Currently Darrin lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Class is based on full awareness by finding organic patterns through contradictions. Time is devoted to exploring how the body moves through space and how a simple starting point can trickle into a series of events. With basic principles, we incorporate simple patterns allowing us to challenge ourselves and move our bodies fully through continuous movements.
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$12 / Class
Save with a 10-Class Card ($11/class)
