My goal in teaching is for every participant to dance they way they love to dance, and to make performances they want to experience. Teaching is for me a reciprocally energizing necessity; it generates more energy and enthusiasm than just about anything else I do. In the classes, questions have experiential answers, stillness and quiet are as valued as virtuosity and bold moves, and discriminating awareness imbues observation and action. (for History scroll to bottom)
Course DescriptionsPick a place, decide what you want to do there, work on it, find out how long it takes to do it/ how long you want to do it. Do it....maybe with video, maybe only for video, or the web, or the backyard or the corner, or ... Get supportive critical feedback in an environment that values observation, analysis, articulation, and revision.
is an experience of dancing for anyone who wants to know her/his unique way of dancing. It is a technique class based on what we love about moving: singing and dancing riotously or calmly; moving a lot or a little, all within a social field of inclusivity and attention. To up the game, we use suggestions about space, voice, time, energy, breathing, seeing, imagining, inner and outer stimuli, personal pleasure and parallel play. Lots of great and sometimes cheesy music!
PERFORMANCE AND VIDEO (with Molly Davies)
With multiple screens, cameras, mixing boards, set, lighting and movement scores, participants study various relationships of video, performance and place. Students use cameras, are introduced to computer progamming for mixing live-feed and pre-recorded images, and design scores for movement and cameras. This is a class for video artists, set designers, and all performance disciplines.
TECHNIQUE FOR WHAT?
for dancing how you want to dance, to extend your expressive repertoire, to free your mind. Breathing exercises, vocalizations, intentional direction, release work, improvisation, alignment/efficiency practices and a variety of techniques for softening, lengthening, strengthening, opening and focusing. This is an eclectic class that provokes individual expression.
CONTEMPLATIVE DANCE FORM --3 hours/ originated by Barbara Dilley
Sitting meditation
Personal awareness practice
Sitting meditation
Open Space
Sitting meditation
Discussion
REPERTORY
Duet/Duet to Quintet
Go Tell Aunt Rhodie
Point of Rescue: 6,6,5,8,11
Count 25: 10,5,4,3,2,1
Dancing the Numbers: 1,1,2,3,5,8,13
Muscle Memories
She'll be Comin' Round the Mountain
CHOREOGRAPHY
Through the practice of "kinesthetic delight" (term coined by Barbara Dilley), singing, and working with scores to find movement preferences, participants make movement structures (phrases, sequences, various kinds of movement modules) that are designed for their particular needs.
GESTURE: FORM AND FEELING
What is a gesture? What is a movement? How do these begin and end? How are they followed, directed, transformed? How can rational structures or scores support the expression of emotion and imagination? The tool used is the score to Motley’s solo, Dancing the Numbers.
SINGING: BODY AND VOICE
Singing to, with, and not-with music, singing with and through the breaks in our voices, singing with permission to sound anyway that feels good, singing solo and with others. Singing in ways that might give new meaning to what singing is. Singing to experience the range and happiness of our vocal chords and imagination. Working with techniques that are healthy and freeing.
Teaching History
2016
Bennington College
Vermont College Dance Festival/Middlebury College
University of Vermont
Johnson State College
University of Houston
Open Dance Project/Hunter Center, Houston
Flynn Center for the Performing Arts
2015
University of Vermont
Vermont College Dance Festival
Flynn Center for the Performing Arts
2014
Helen Day Art Center
CDFS, Montpelier, Vermont
CDFS, Montpelier, Vermont
2013-2010
CDFS, Montpelier, Vermont
Shaw Hill Studio, Stowe, Vermont
Bailando Dance Festival, Corpus Christi, Texas
2009
CDFS, Montpelier, Vermont
River Arts Center, Morrisville, Vermont
2007
University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado
Shaw Hill Studio, Stowe, VT
2006
Berkshire Ballet, Johnson, Vermont
Barnevelder Center for the Arts, Houston, Texas
2005
Berkshire Ballet, Johnson, Vermont
Barnevelder Center for the Arts, Houston, Texas
2005
Movement Research, NYC
Stephen F. Austin University, Nacogdoches, TX
2004
Barnevelder Center for the Arts, Houston
Movement Research, NYC
2003
University of Colorado, Boulder
Texas Commision on the Arts, Calhoun County, TX
2002
Indonesian Dance Festival, Jakarta, Indonesia
2001
Tulane University Dance Dept., New Orleans
Ballet Freiburg/Pretty Ugly, Freiburg, Germany
Amsterdam Theatre School, Amsterdam
2000
Amsterdam Theatre School, Amsterdam
Matsuyama Prefect: Yummi Dance Co., Matsuyama, Japan
The Kitchen, NYC
Ballet Freiburg/Pretty Ugly, Freiburg, Germany
1999
MousonTurm, Frankfurt, Germany
Ballet Freiburg/Pretty Ugly, Freiburg, Germany
Amsterdam Theatre School, Amsterdam
1997-98
Dancespace Project at St. Mark's Church, NYC
1997
Movement Research, NYC
University of Houston, Houston
Flynn Theatre, Burlington, VT
1996
University of Houston, TX
1995
Naropa University, Boulder, CO
Colorado Dance Festival, Boulder, CO
Glenwood Springs Dance Festival, Glenwood Springs, CO
1994
Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Lee, MA
Morishita Studios, Tokyo, Japan
Taman Ismael Masurki, Jakarta, Indonesia
1991-94
Naropa Institute, Boulder
1991
University of Colorado, Boulder
Justus Liebig Universitat, Giessen, Germany
1988-90
Regis University, Denver
1986
Colorado Council for Arts and Humanities/ Artist-in-the-Schools
1982-87
Loretto Heights College, Denver
1980-81
Space/Dance/Theater School, Houston
1979
Dallas Ballet Company
Pitsburgh Ballet Company
1976-77
University of Houston, Clear Lake City
