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W-8 / From the Inside Out

Workshop with Jeremy Nelson
In the frame of Winter Tanz 2016/17

This workshop is influenced by Nelson’s 30 years of continuing study in the work of Barbara Mahler and Susan Klein, and more recent years of studies in Alexander Technique®, Body-Mind Centering® and Feldenkrais Method. The focus of the workshop is to integrate this investigation and alignment work into movement. We will focus mostly on our skeletal structure and its connections, allowing more mobility and suppleness in the superficial muscles and more efficient use of the floor. The intention is for each student to experience and develop the awareness of their own body and recognize its individuality. We will incorporate a variety of approaches including hands-on work in partners leading into improvisation that help deepen our awareness and give us the opportunity to really experience some of these ideas in a physical way. As well as using improvisation, we will also take our work into simple activities and exercises in order to try and integrate this new awareness into our body’s movement patterns, and finally build to phrases of set movement that involve moving more boldly and dynamically.

In the frame of Winter Tanz 2016/17 on the 6.1.17 a Showing with Kirstie Simson, Emmanuelle Pepin, Anna Pietsch and Jeremy Nelson.

Jeremy Nelson

Jeremy Nelson was a member of the Siobhan Davies & Dancers and Second Stride Dance companies in London, and Stephen Petronio Dance Company in New York. He has also danced in works by David Zambrano, Luis Lara Malvacías, and with improviser Kirstie Simson among others. He is the recipient of a NY Dance and performance Bessie Award for outstanding performance and a Guggenheim Fellowship for choreography. He was head of dance at the Danish National School of Performing Arts and is now Associate Professor in NYU Tisch department of dance. Over the past 35 plus years he has taught classes/workshops in over 35 countries at venues including Movement Research in NY, American Dance Festival, ImPulsTanz, P.A.R.T.S., and the Sasha Waltz Company among many others. He has presented his own choreography in New York and internationally and has been collaborating with Luis Lara Malvacías on a series of improvisational duets, performed in Amsterdam, Barcelona, New York, Los Angeles, and at Radial System in Berlin.

Level: Intermediate, advanced
in English