RESIDENCY ACTIVITIES

for Dancers, Actors, Artists, Teachers, Writers, General Population
1 1/2 hours, 1/2 day, 1 day, 1 week, 3 weeks adapted for ability

SWEEPS for PORTABLES

  • Sweeps: Several 2 minute pieces for 5-8 dancers which appear in between solos of PORTABLES. 2 rehearsals needed.

CREATE A PIECE

  • Repertory: Choose a piece from group work or have a new piece created on your dancers.

AUDIENCE PROJECT

  • Audience Project: Brainstorm to create ways to reach out to the community to draw audiences.

WORKSHOPS

  • Composition - Explore a source. Tease out structure, movement material and theme. Create questions to deepen the work. Edit.
  • Text & Movement - Create scripts and movement and weave them together
  • Choreography Lab - Show work in progress and give and receive feedback
  • Looking at Dance - Practice describing the movement of 1 or 2 choreographers' work
  • Rapid Repertory - As a group, write, think, move and develop a performance quickly by brainstorming, narrowing parameters, abstracting and building
  • Performing Skills - Examine what makes a powerful performance. Look at the difference between correct and alive.
  • Laban Movement Analysis - Explore movement dynamics, spatial intent and/or action motivation
  • Bartenieff Fundamentals (tm) - Isolate and practice the basic simple movement patterns that help clarify movement
  • Transitions - Explore ways to connect movement material.
  • Phrasing - Explore impactive, explosive, middle-accent and even-phrasing through speech and movement
  • Family Dance - Kids to grandparents create work together
  • Creative Conditioning - Claire's slow developing nonstop workout of aerobics, Fundamentals and improvisation. For strength, stretch, stamina.

SPECIAL EVENTS

  • Performance - Have one or more from PORTABLES at a special event
MISSION STATEMENT
For the past several years I have been pursuing a mix of language and movement which has resulted in a strong theater/dance relationship. I have also been mixing subjects such as science, art, gardening which has broadened the appeal as well as possible venues for the work, from new music concerts to gardening events to art gallery openings.
My strength in teaching is in fostering creativity and expressiveness. I am committed to developing the skill of discovery, both in the creation of work and in the performance of it. I am committed to bringing the life out in the work, whether it's in a character portrayed or in an abstract exploration. I find that limiting the material and then delving into it, riding it, amplifying and developing it, leads one on a path of satisfying and surprising discovery.
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