battery opera class series

SU-FEH'S CLASSES
Upcoming dates: June 21 -25, 2010
10am - noon at the Scotiabank Dance Centre, 677 Davie Street, Vancouver, BC.
For more information, please email info@batteryopera.com

Observing and Adjusting

Using a somatic approach, this class proposes that through an inquiry into sensation, we can discover and map out the spaces in and around the body to reveal a space that is sentient and in partnership with the body.

The work uses breath and imagery - twin tools found in both contemporary somatic techniques as well as traditional qigong methods - to address resistances and blockages while honouring the interconnectedness of the whole body. Special attention is placed on the role and fuction of curves and spirals, as both strategy and landscape of the dancing body.

Participants can expect a range of experiences - from simply lying on the floor breathing to more formal qigong exercise - to take them into dance that comes merely from observing the sensations n their body and adjusting with and around those sensations.

DAVID'S CLASSES

*Systema for Sissies. Bogus *Bagua . *Martial Arts My Way

*Note: in this class you will not learn any of these forms that I have cribbed from over the years. You will be engaged to explore my take on these life arts and the concept of  Sui Ji Ying Bian, both as a performance functionality guide and as a basis for developing a (my) performance aesthetic. The class will involve sweating, repeating, text, fear, excitement and some boredom.
The class will also serve as the development process for my next performance work, "Lives were around me." 

Sui Ji Ying Bian can be translated as: Follow gauge respond transform, or follow lead borrow use.

"act according to circumstances"