Somatic Survival Strategies #4

School For Contemporary Dance & Thought

Somatic Survival Strategies #4 with K.J. Holmes and Sara Shelton Mann

SOMATIC SURVIVAL STRATEGIES #4 with K.J. Holmes &amp; Sara Shelton MannFEBRUARY 19-21, 2021 1:00-4:00pm Eastern // 10:00am-1:00pm Pacific.....SCHEDULE:1:00-2:30pm Eastern // 10:00-11:30am Pacific Class with K.J. Holmes2:30-4:00pm Eastern // 11:30am-1:00pm Pacific 10 ways and Chi Cultivation with Sara Shelton Mann.....FEES:Full Workshop: $110 - $300**Fees waived for BIPoC (Self Identified). Please email Leah at leahscdt@gmail.com to register!.....IT’S HAPPENINGGGGGGGGGG! Bring it on and into Practice!Take 2K.J.’s classes will be kinetically sensing and moving with spiraling actions into held narratives and out into collective supports making visible and revitalizing current constellations.K.J. Holmes, a Brooklyn based danceartist/actor/singer/writer, travels nationally and internationally teaching/performing/creating. K.J. has been exploring improvisation as process and performance since 1981. She has collaborated extensively with Julie Carr, Simone Forti, Karen Nelson, Lisa Nelson and Image Lab, Steve Paxton; has performed in the work of Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People, Xavier Le Roy, Lance Gries, Mark Dendy, Melinda Ring, Karinne Keithley Syers, among many others; is in artist/filmmaker Matthew Barney’s new film Redoubt; collaborates with drummer Jeremy Carlstedt in L.I.P. (Love Is Power, MLKjr.); teaches at NYU/ETW, Sarah Lawrence College, and Movement Research; student of Body Mind Centering(r) 1995-99 certification program and continued research; graduate of William Esper Studio (Meisner acting with master teacher Terry Knickerbocker),Satya Yoga (with Sondra Loring) and Ayurveda’s Wolrd (with Dr. Naina Mirbali.) K.J. is currently devising a new piece titled 900 Bees Are Humming, a multi disciplinary work exploring life, death and transformation. Her work has been presented by many venues including The Chocolate Factory, PS122, Danspace Project, Mana Contemporary Chicago, The Belfry, Chashama, Dixon Place.10 ways and Chi cultivation with Sara Shelton Mann10 ways is part of embodiment work. It is a Hymn to the past, present, and future as now. Therein lies your genius. Moving from improvisational response into subtle compositional structuring of your scoring through action and imagination, a world is created.Chi Cultivation- A series of movement and breath exercises that articulate the spine, work the muscles, and touch all the meridians of the body. These practices raise your physical energy, as well as your consciousness, and build strength and vitality while moving through space and interacting with others. Chi cultivation is also included in every class.Sara Shelton Mann has been a choreographer, performer, and teacher since 1967. She was a protégé of Alwin Nikolais and Murray Louis in New York City before moving to Canada where she met Andrew Harwood and fell in love with Contact Improvisation.In 1979 she moved to San Francisco to work with Mangrove, now Mixed Bag Productions, for which she serves as artistic director. One of its early manifestations was the company Contraband, launched as a performance group and research ground combining the principles of contact, systems of the body and spiritual practice into a unified system of research.Among her awards are a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, 7 Isadora Duncan Awards, including a special achievement award for “erasing time: celebrating 30 years a radical dance legend” (Sara Shelton Mann with David Szlasa and Norman Rutherford), Djerassi Artist in Residence Awards, Headlands Center for the Arts Residency 2016, Lifetime Achievement Bay Guardian Award, 10 Women Who Made a Difference, Bay Guardian "Goldie" Award, Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists award (2016).Her Movement Alchemy training is an ongoing teaching project and is influenced by certifications and studies in the metaphysical and healing traditions. Sara’s performance work is a platform for collaboration and research in consciousness.​

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