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Lower Left’s Annual Summer Intensive and Performance Festival 2002
June 30-July 13, 2002 at California State University, Fresno
Technique, composition, contact improvisation and creative research.
Come plunge full force into the creative process with Lower Left. You will fly with new ideas about dancing while developing razor-edge technical skills. These two weeks brings clear focus on dancing as a creative process that is constantly unfolding, alerting you to the doors that open up and invite you to enter. Moving into these meaningful imaginative states that simutainously relieves you of your doubt, judgements and self-effacing thoughts to soar, express and embody Art. Learn to dance in solo and in ensemble in this flow of enlivened and surprising work. Just show up opened minded and soak in the constant de-stabilizing atmosphere designed for you to do your best dancing and dance-making.
Who is Lower Left? We are pioneers in San Diego who, have contributed our expertise in the field of postmodern dance and performance to the southern California community. Lower Left Dance was founded in 1994 by Nina Martin, Karen Schaffman, Mary Reich, and Jane Blount, and now includes Rebecca Bryant, Margaret Paek, Colleen Phillips, and Andrew Wass. Lower Left is a performance and teaching collective that resides at Sushi Performance and Visual Art. Lower Left is dedicated to the spontaneous combustion inherent in the collaborative process, choosing to rely on the combined artistic vitality of its members rather than the hierarchy of the traditional dance company.
Our Objective? Lower Left’s objective is to develop a creative dancer capable of responding to today’s professional choreographers demands for a more artistically evolved performer. At the same time, we are interesting in equipping the budding choreographer with sophisticated tools to deepen their choreographic pursuits. This intensive combines highly technical work with the creative process. Together we create a container that fosters the artistic, physical, intellectual, and social growth.
CLASSES
Post Modern Technique: Martin’s class begins with Hamilton Floor Barre, which focuses on alignment, strength and flexibility to sharpen technical dancing while giving a sound system for body maintenance and injury prevention. Martin progresses into “Rewire” work, a method she has been developing that accesses personal style and vocabulary. Blount’s class focuses on Qi Gong breathing, developmental and release work. Moving from such foundations to complex phrases and improvisation, Blount’s work emphasizes articulation and strength.
Composition: Lower Left will take you through the rigors of the art of dance making incorporating improvisation to find material then presenting various strategies to discover the form inherent within it. Your work will be seen in performance the last night.
Contact Improvisation: Contact explores the dynamics of weight-sharing, partnering, sensorial awareness, and improvisation. Stretch your perceptions through flying, rolling, and falling with a partner.
Ensemble Thinking: How do you use improvisation within a large ensemble? How do you choreograph a group? With simplicity and sophistication, this class takes on spatial composition to learn co-operation in a dancing ensemble.
Creative Research: This is where participant’s own personal stories and particular viewpoint of the world finds form. Using writing, drawing, and movement, dancers excavate their individual work for solo dance and performance making.
Jams: A time to practice and do some “serious” dancing with all of the newly found skills.
Hot House Wrap Up: culminating performance for all workshop participants, Saturday 7/28, \\$5.
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Who Should Apply:
This course is designed for choreographers, dancers, and performing artists interested in maturing their skills as performers and expanding their movement potential.
How to Apply:
1) Submit directly to Professor Sandback a letter of intent indicating what you would like to gain from the workshop and describing your dance/performance experience including improvisation, compositional, and technical background. Deadline for submission of materials is May 30, 2002 note: deadlines are occasioonally extended. Contact the course coordinator regarding applying after teh deadline date.
2) Submit the Registration Form and payment of all fees directly to the Summer Arts Registration Office.
Course Coordinator:
Pat Sandback
School of Music and Dance, San Diego State University, 5500 Campanile Drive, San Diego, CA 92182-7902
phone: 619-594-4825 fax: 619-594-1692
email: sandback@mail.sdsu.edu
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