I have, shamefully, not updated this blog with new posts for almost a year. One of my New Year’s goals is to fix this. In the meantime, however, I know that a number of people are visiting this blog to…
Buffalo class postscript
There are a few major topics that I didn’t cover in my Sunday class. I wanted to mention them here briefly. I would try to cover some of these if I came back and taught another class: floor work: rolling…
Class recap: 1.5-hour pre-jam class, Sun., 2011/01/16, at Verve Dance Studio, Buffalo, NY
Dear Buffalo, Here is a recap/outline/partial transcription of the class I taught on Sunday. Please let me know if anything is unclear, or if you remember anything differently, and I’ll be happy to clarify or correct. Thanks to Nancy Hughes…
How to get better? and 6 challenges for intermediate dancers
When you first start dancing contact improvisation, improvement isn’t exactly straightforward, but the feedback is pretty clear. When you stumble, or fall, or can’t complete a movement, you know it. You think, “Hm, that felt awkward. I do that better.”…
When I’ll be posting
Dear readers, You may be wondering how often I plan to update this and when, exactly, new content will be appearing. For now, I’m going to try for weekly Monday updates. I’ve got a post planned for Monday, July 5…
Fundamentals class footnotes
If you took my class on Saturday, 2010/6/19, there are few things that we didn’t have time to cover that are worth mentioning: Weight modulation We emphasized weight-sharing and feeling the ground under your partner’s feet through the point of…