[CI-Announce] Workshop: A RE-EDUCATION – Klein Technique as taught by BARBARA MAHLER, November 7-11,2011, Schwelle7, Berlin/Germany

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A RE-EDUCATION – Klein Technique as taught by BARBARA MAHLER
Workshop by Barbara Mahler, Schwelle7, Berlin/Germany

daily Monday, 7th - Friday, 11th, Novemer 2011
Schedule - morning class: 11:30am-2pm + afternoon class: 3:30-6 pm
Showing: Friday, 11th, Novemer 2011, 8:30 pm

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A RE-EDUCATION – Klein Technique as taught by Barbara Mahler

In the morning portion of this workshop we will focus on a movement  
technique that works with the premise that the requirements of  
movement in daily life and dance are essentially the same, and will  
provide the underpinnings to support all styles of movement/technique  
and improvisation. The purpose of the “stretch and placement” class is  
to re-educate one's body with an interweaving of theory and practice  
on a physical, intellectual, and organic level. The result is a  
clarity and sureness of movement, and a new level of understanding the  
innate intelligence of the body. It has its roots in 30 plus years of  
investigating and teaching the essentials for efficient body use. We  
work at the level of the bone, not the traditional level of the  
muscles. In order to move most efficiently it is necessary to let go  
of the muscles that hold us back from moving and fix the body into a  
set and locked configuration. When the bones are aligned we become  
connected, powerful and strong. The body becomes efficient and alive.

In the afternoon class we will focus on the practice of the principles  
explored in the morning, working with improvisation and movement  
exploration, leading us towards the formulation of an informal  
performance/showing. The movement will be created by the participants  
of the workshop. One of the ideas we will work with are various  
initiations in the body to better facilitate movement sequencing,  
becoming both grounded and free. As the work also focuses on helping  
each individual student work with their own body structure  we will  
enjoy both a consistency and surprise in the our movement.

PERFORMANCE:
The workshop will culminate in a performance/showing of the explored  
material, Friday, November 11th, at 8:30 pm with a group piece of the  
students.



BARBARA MAHLER

Barbara Mahler has taught daily classes for 27 years plus, educating  
and teaching (with, and inspired by, Susan Klein) a generation of  
dancers. She has traveled extensively around the globe, teaching/ 
performing/choreographing, widely respected and. active in the  
development contemporary dance technique. Essentially self-taught, she  
brings to her classes the perspective, understanding and experience of  
working on her own movement re-education. Barbara was a Movement  
Research artist in residence for the 2000-01 and 2006-08 season, is a  
movement consultant at Hunter College, NYC, and is on the artist  
advisory board of BAX. She is a recent graduate from the MFA program  
at the University Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She also maintains a private  
practice in Zero Balancing and other healing modalities.

“Mahler, a noted teacher, views dance training as a voyage of self- 
discovery. Barbara Mahler roots her choreography in distillation, as  
if she aims to extract the essence of her ideas, making them calmer  
and purer. The image is that of a seesaw in perfect, unwavering  
equilibrium, a woman at ease in control.”(Village Voice 2007)

http://www.barbaramahler.net


UDDATES: http://www.schwelle7.de/Barbara%20Mahler.html
REGISTRATION: xs4jan (at) gmx.de
PRICE: 200 EUR

SLEEPING:
We can host up workshop participants in our special sleeping cocoons.  
The cost is 10 EUR a night per person, 7.- if you bring your own sheets.

More: http://www.schwelle7.de/GAESTE.html



----------- LOCATION --------

Schwelle 7
Uferstraße 6, backyard, left site, 2. floor
13357 Berlin – Wedding (Nähe Uferstudios)
http://www.schwelle7.de
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=286059761953

Schwelle 7 – Cie. Felix Ruckert Berlin e.V.
Artistic & Managing Director: Felix Ruckert

TRAFIC LINK:
U8 Pankstraße, U9 Osloer Straße, U9 Nauener Platz, SB Gesundbrunnen,  
SB Humboldthain, Bus M27 Brunnenplatz
http://maps.google.de/maps?daddr=13357+Berlin,+Uferstr+6


  
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