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The Bridge Project, Deborah Hay & Physical Training

Bridge Project 2014 premier of new work: PROGRESS    Featuring 17 amazing Seattle artists in collaboration with Nico Tower, Rosa Vissers, and Adam Sekuler. Plus new works by The Pendelton House (Babette McGeady), Colleen McNeary, and Anna Conner. JAN 31 – FEB 2 / 8PM Velocity Founders Theater 1621 12th Ave TICKETS $18 / $20 at the door / $12 students + seniors / MVP $15 This show is selling out fast so get your tickets in advance! Check out the trailer on Vimeo.   s a v e   t h e   d a t e    April 5 & 6  At Once with "Dynamic" Solos/Work by Deborah Hay, adapted and performed by Mary Margaret Moore & Shannon Stewart At Once with "Dynamic" is a duet of solos by Deborah Hay adapted, combined, remade by myself and Mary Margaret Moore.   For 14 years, American post-modern choreographer Hay created and taught solos to a group of selected dancers from around the world in a program called the Solo Performance Commissioning Project.  Each soloist was tasked with practicing the performance of their solo daily for up to a year and adapting the work to make it their own before performing for a public audience.  This show brings together 2009 solo At Once with 2012 solo “Dynamic” (a northwest premier for both) to create a new work framed by conversations and demonstrations exploring the enigmatic, subversive, and invaluable work of Deborah Hay. April 5 & 6, 2014 Washington Hall Seattle, WA Tickets Available Soon 6pm Performance 7pm Free Lecture/Dem 8pm Performance      Physical Training  The Awake Body Series at Samadhi Yoga THE AWAKE BODY SERIES Gyrokinesis® with Shannon Stewart March 8, 15, 22, 29 Saturdays 12-2pm | $85/$75 early bird by March 1st Drop Ins for March 8th class only $22   This four week Gyrokinesis® workshop will allow you to grasp, utilize, and benefit from the fundamental principles of a Gyrokinesis practice--breath, spiral, expansion, stabilization through contrast and supple strength.   Classes in this series will build on material week to week and allow time for hands on adjustments, individualized attention, and a deeper understanding of alignment and core support. Ongoing Classes at Velocity Dance Center Beginning Modern Saturdays 10 - 11:30 am Beginning Ballet  LIVE MUSIC! Sundays 12-1:30pm Intro to Dance Tuesdays 8-9:30pm Next Session April 15 - May 20 Gyrokinesis® Sundays 1:30 - 3pm Drop in classes $15 Class Cards $65/5 classes   Tuesday, January 14, 2014 Bridge Project 2014 L I N E S  A M B I T I O N  D E S T R U C T I O N  S T A T I C   Bridge Project Performance Jan 31 - Feb 2 | 8pm Velocity Dance Center >> buy tickets << Friday, January 03, 2014 Dance Class PR Photo Inspiration -->  vintage dancewear + economic hard times + Antartica. SEE YOU IN CLASS. Friday, December 27, 2013 Portland Winter Workshops We are in the home stretch of the holidays and though I usually start to feel a downward pull on my psyche as we veer into the uninterrupted grayness not brightened by twinkling christmas lights, mindless shopping and presents, right now I feel done with it.  I'm ready for 2014.  I'm teaching three days of classes in PDX for those that have had enough already and want to get back into studio/body/creative space.  Today on my walk through town, I was thinking about a simple score called "Composing the Room," and stopped to watch the goats perform it. In February, I'll be back with Adam to teach our special two day dance film workshop (info below).   Sign up in advance so we can make some good, number-appropriate lesson plans!  SPECIAL WORKSHOPS at Conduit in PDX Dec 27 - 29 | 11am - 1pm TECHNIQUE + SCORES ABOUT THE SERIES Technique + Scores is a daily practice that feeds the desire for physical rigor and spontaneous composition and improvisation.  The first half of the class will focus on technical and physical exercises that warm up and explore the capacity for endurance, athleticism, mindfulness, and specificity in our bodies.  In the second half of class we will introduce compositional scores for groups that bring integrate imagination, sensation, relationship, and and hone our craft as performers and creators.   February 8 & 9, 2014 | 12 - 5pm PERCEPTUAL RIFT: Looking and Listening in Dance Cinema  Perceptual Rift is a special one-time workshop that Adam and I will be holding in August.  We will share some of our key creative practices by making a film or films together as a group over the course of two days. It will take place both at Velocity Dance Center and at the Northwest Film Forum.  The goal of this course is to heighten your perception of place while working in two mediums, cinema and dance. It is geared towards both filmmakers and dancers, or artists interested in exploring this observational practice. Info & Registration  More description: The ideas that form our practice is similar to a perceptual rift, which the artist Vik Muniz has described as what occurs when two "seemingly contentious media," such as photography and drawing, are blended in such a way that the perceiver feels vision itself." In these moments  the media we're working with transform from our individual media (dance and cinema) and become  the physical place and the perceiver's moment in that place. The rift that is created is actually a new space, opened up, a crack in our hardened, accustomed ways of seeing, into which the new experience flows. The workshop is an offering of tools that might help you open up that rift in your practice;  cinematic, choreographic or otherwise, allowing you to expand how you participate with these mediums, and use them to further your own senses. More specifically it will include working with observational scores, movement scores, discussions of framing and edits, practice in making short films and editing them.  Bring your recording devices; audio, video, written. If you don't have one we can pair you with someone who does Thursday, December 19, 2013 some good dance jams I just finished my second session of teaching Intro to Dance and got a request for my playlist.  Because I obsess about having the right music, I very much appreciate this.  Here is the playlist I've been working off of for my beginning modern and intro classes.  cheers!  Monday, December 02, 2013 RADAR in Brooklyn | Classes in SoHo We are in NY and at this point I'm still walking around thinking how much I love this city.  Tons of awesome stuff going on as usual.  I'm excited to check MR's La Song Ya fest. (Favorite panel title: "We Came To This City To Shit on a Stage"). Here is what Adam and I are up to this week: f i l m   We're screening dance films at Spectacle on Wednesday night as part of our RADAR: exchanges in dance film frequencies traveling series.  This time the exchange is Seattle -- New York and the line up is amazing.  Embedded by Marissa Rae Niederhauser Merely Mouthpiece by Adam Sekuler Serpentine by Jessica Hester & Stephanie Wuertz Nemo by Rob Tyler, Adrienne Leverette & Fred Nemo Study For A Cruxifixion by Randy Sterling Hunter Excerpt “Rite of Spring” by Kathy Rose Nightinigale by Jacob Rosen, Kate Wallich Say by Reggie Watts, Amy O’Neal, Gabriel Bienczycki Behind The Front Lines by Katie Fleming Humming Birds by Tracy Rector 1922 by Shannon Stewart, Adam Sekuler & Daniel Mimura R S V P on the facespace c l a s s e s    I'm teaching at 100 Grand in SoHo Dec 4 - 6 (wed - fri) 10am - 12pm.  E V E R Y T H I N G: A morning physical practice for training, performing, surviving, and reveling in contemporary dance (aka your morning technique class) Int/adv level for students & performing artists This is a morning warm up that explores rigorous and playful approaches to physicality, body organization, spatial navigation, and set and improvised technical exercises that move us toward connection and freedom.  Gyrokinesis, release technique, gaga, Forsythe/Pite improvisation, CounterTechnique, workout fads, qigong, and somatic partnering exercises may all be incorporated. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom) About The Real Shannon Stewart I make things – performances, organizations, scores, films, workshops, blog entries, and conversations. I think it’s all dance and choreography. I work to learn about and integrate the concepts, issues, and fields of my interests through the knowledge, memories, and experiences of bodies. I think about the invitation created through the ritual of performance, relying on aesthetics to hide and reveal meaning, the rules of provocation created in any composition. I think about the complexity of human connection. I think about place, inequality and privilege. I think about the innocence and landscape of the body, ideas of safety and freedom, the promise of love and heartbreak and beginning again and again and again. 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