Monday July 8- Friday July 12, 9:30-3:30
(detailed schedule below)
Register at FringeArts website here:
https://fringearts.com/event/megan-bridge-workshop/
This week-long intensive workshop is an invitation into movement, mindfulness, and presence. Choreographer and performer Megan Bridge’s performance, teaching, and research centers around consciousness & attention in the embodied, moving self. This class will guide students to heighten perception and use all their senses, accessing their own phenomenological experience and using it as the very material of their own performance. Formal dance training is not required, but participants should be comfortable in their bodies and, ideally, have some kind of regular physical practice.
In the morning we will start with a slow warm up using breath, stillness, and quiet, beginning to allow a multitude of signals into our experience with each passing moment. Partnered as well as solo bodywork exercises will be introduced, using touch, weight sharing, massage, and meditative stretching to wake into the body. In the afternoon, we will continue to tune our embodied perception: picking up communication, we move and dance in deep physical resonance with our space, with sound, and with each other. We will progress to dancing in groups and performing for each other, collectively devising movement scores for group improvisation.
In Widening the Circle: Movement Improvisation and Somatics, Megan Bridge’s teaching draws on her own decades-long investigations into bodywork, somatics, dancing improvisationally, and her intensive study with masters of improvised dance such as Brigitta Herrmann, Steve Paxton, Lisa Nelson, Deborah Hay, Manfred Fischbeck, and Merian Soto.
Schedule
Classes run daily July 8th -12th from 9:30am to 3:30pm
Daily Schedule:
9:30am – 10:30am – Warm Up
10:30am – 12:30pm – Body work, somatics, stretching
12:30pm – 1:30pm – Lunch
1:30pm – 3:30pm – Movement Improvisation and cool down
Pricing + Registrations
Full Week Tuition: $300*
Full Week FringeArts Member Tuition: $270
At this time, only full week passes are available. Single day ($70 per class) + half day ($40 per class) tickets may be released closer to the class start date pending availability.
*Financial Aid is Available, please inquire!!
Register Here:
https://fringearts.com/event/megan-bridge-workshop/