La ALTERNATIVA *Also check our Upcoming events
SCHEDULE 2010
DECEMBER 28, 2009-JANUARY 1
Alternative Conservatory/San Francisco
TENACITY 2010 • New Year's Intensive • M-F • 10am – 10pm
Kathleen Hermesdorf/Albert Mathias/Sara Shelton Mann/Yannis Adoniou
JANUARY 10-25
Escuela Professional de Danza Mazatlán & Delfos Danza Contemporanéa
Classes, Research & Rehearsal • Armario #3 by Omar Carrum of Delfos
FEBRUARY 2 – 12
March 1 – May 21- This class is moving back to ODC Commons 3/15
G.U.T. Techniques • M/W/F • 10-12
A general unified theory focused on the act of motion from internal impulse to external expression, motivated from gut and guts, and translating to ‘good’. Organizing a hybrid of forms to encourage deep physical awareness, understanding and impetus, the work is a visceral and detailed development of energy cultivation, hands-on exercises, somatic improvisation, technical experiments, methods of falling, flying and inversion, and full-bodied dynamic phrases. The practice demands interactive intelligence, sensate virtuosity, creativity, rhythm and stamina. The class is an intimate, animated training ground and dynamic arena for exploration.
KUNST-STOFF arts - 927 Market Street (near 5th)www.kunst-stoff.org
FEBRUARY 14 – 27
University of Colorado/Boulder
Classes & Commission (Stranger)
MARCH 2 – MAY 20
Sonoma State University • T/TH
Classes
MARCH 15-26
Alternative Conservatory returns to ODC Commons www.odcschool.org
Professional Training Program
G.U.T. Techniques - M/W/F - 10-12
LINES Training Program
Commission (Stranger) – performances in May
MARCH 24 & 25
KUNST-STOFF arts GALA7pm
Featuring La ALTERNATIVA, 4 x 4 with KH, Yannis Adoniou, Annie Rosenthal & Andrew Ward, and Loop by Sara Shelton Mann with Kira Kirsch & Hana Erdman
Z Space at Theatre Artaud
9pm dance party with live music by Albert Mathias
April 5-11
Sping TENACITY • 10am-10pm • KUNST-STOFF arts
MAY 15th RITE of SPRING Benefit & Party
MAY 24-JUNE 19
Alternative Conservatory & P.O.R.C.H. Training Module
Ponderosa/Stolzenhagen, Germany
JUNE 21-25
Ponderosa TanzLand Festival
10am-1pm • G.U.T. Techniques
9pm-12am • Strange Attractors/Multi-media guided research with Yoann Trellu
200eu for both workshops
JULY 5-16
HJS/Amsterdam
G.U.T. Techniques • M-F mornings
JULY 19-30
In negotiation with ImPulsTanz Festival/Vienna
Ausust 2-8
CESTA/Czech Rebuplic
Improvisation workshop
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ALTERNATIVE CONSERVATORY
Alternative Conservatory exists to cultivate, enrich, and affect the form and field of dance via professional level training in 21st century motives, manifestations and relationships to other art forms. It is an immersive, intensive, international, modular and mobile training ground, alternative and complementary to academia, and an arena for serious engagement and exchange. Alternative Conservatory also works in collaboration with KUNST-STOFF arts (www.kunst-stoff.org) in San Francisco, P.O.R.C.H./Stephanie Maher (www.ponderosa-dance.de) in Germany and Delfos/Claudia Lavista & Omar Carrum (www.delfosdanza.com) in Mexico.
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SPRING PROGRAMMING
more to come in April & May / more details on Alternative Conservatory page
in association with KUNST-STOFF arts
REGISTER at www.kunst-stoff.org
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FEBRUARY 15-18, 22-25
Sara Shelton Mann
Movement Alchemy
M-TH • 7-9:30pm
$150 - Full workshop / $25 - Drop-in
Intensive group process. The heart of improvisation and composition. Active imagination and skil. Cultivation - energy, present moment, relationship to forces and bodies. Performance training – presence, practice, personal direction
MARCH 1-4 & 8-11
Kathleen Hermesdorf & Maria Francesca Scaroni
Emulating the experimental mind [Can we call this post-contact?]
M-TH • 7-10pm
$150 - Full workshop / $25 - Drop in
Since its origins, Contact Improvisation’s premise was the committed sense of experimentation for its own sake rather than the intention to forge and formalize a new technical vocabulary. Looking at dance as a phenomenon, not as language and emulating this dedication, the class aims to explore movement as an infinite source for experimentation, observation and discovery: dancing (IMPROVISATION MEETS DANCE TECHNIQUE MEETS CLUB DANCING MEETS CONTACT) in and out of the physical body and its surrounding energies, FROM THE CELLULAR TO THE GLOBAL.
APRIL 5-10 (register early)
SPRING INTENSIVE • TENACITY (2)010
M-F • 10am-10pm / SAT • 1pm-1am
$450 / $400 if registered & 50% paid by March 12
MOTIVES • cultivation, techniques, improvisation, contact, creating, performance practice, salons, showing, party
FACULTY • Kathleen Hermesdorf, Albert Mathias, Yannis Adoniou, Keith Hennessy
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SUMMER PROGRAMMING
in association with Stephanie Maher/P.O.R.C.H.
REGISTER at www.ponderosa-dance.de
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MAY 24-JUNE 19
Alternative Conservatory & P.O.R.C.H. Training Module
Ponderosa/Stolzenhagen, Germany
4-weeks of serious, perpetual training
1500eu includes training, room & food
MOTIVES • somatic body, diva body, kinetic impulse, physical potency & presence, techniques & improvisation, creating & destroying, reading & writing
MODUS OPERANDI • working, living & eating together, exchange
FACULTY • Kathleen Hermesdorf, Stephanie Maher, Peter Pleyer, Maria F. Scaroni, Vania Rovisco, Nancy Stark Smith, Mike Vargas
