LIMON WEST COAST 2009

With Risa Steinberg’s TEACHING

METHODOLOGY SEMINAR, and Colin Connor

and Debra Noble's TECHNIQUES OF

CREATION

CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, FULLERTON

FULLERTON, CALIFORNIA

June 14 – June 27
 

In addition to the daily classes, special events will include Master classes, video screenings, and panel discussions.  The two weeks open with Sunday’s introductory placement class and culminate in the final Saturday’s performance of learned repertory and student choreography.  Students should be at the Advanced and High-Intermediate levels.

Part time enrollment will be available in morning classes only.  

Morning classes:

Limón Technique classes with both the Master Teachers, Risa Steinberg and Colin Connor: These classes allow students to take advantage of Risa’s invaluable experience, teaching Limón principles around the world, and using these in her acclaimed performing career and in her numerous settings of Limón works. Colin brings his extensive choreographic background, working very ifferent types of dancers, to help them find their own approach to using these principles. Both teach in ways that focus on helping each individual dancer get the most out of their dancing.

Followed by either:

Risa Steinberg’s Teaching Methodology Seminar, designed to help synthesize the skills needed to be an effective teacher. Directed towards both established teachers and dancers who are beginning this element of their career, it has helped innumerable teachers develop their critical eyes, and physical and verbal clarity. It also works with class structuring and pacing, and the ability to address the roots of a dancer’s problems, leading to deeper improvement.

Or:

Techniques of Creation, which focuses on unleashing personal creativity and developing technical rigor in the creative process. Today’s dance world involves increasing collaboration between choreographers and dancers in creating new work. This course, designed for advanced or intermediate level dancers, was developed and will be taught by Colin Connor and Debra Noble. It aims to help students develop clarity in movement, attack tasks in uniquely personal ways, and find unexpected movement possibilities.

Afternoons start with Debra Noble’s recharging Breath and Movement class, which uses the experience of the breath to bring the dancer to a place where they are working from the center of their being out into space. The session fosters a level of sensuality that allows for increased freedom in the engagement of the whole individual.

All students will then participate in repertory classes with both Risa Steinberg and Colin Connor.

Helping dancers understand the movement principles underlying the Limón work, Risa will teach from one of the masterworks, and lp dancers challenge and extend their own dancing. Colin will collaborate with the dancers to create something entirely new, working with each of them to help develop the habit of creating movement rather than reproducing it.

WEST COAST FACULTY:

Risa Steinberg, hailed in The New York Times as “one of our great modern dancers,” is known internationally as a solo artist, master teacher, rehearsal coach, and director of the works of José Limón. Associate Director of Dance at The Juilliard School, she has both taught and performed extensively throughout the United States, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. A soloist with the José Limón Dance Company, Bill Cratty Dance Theater, Annabelle Gamson, Anna Sokolow’s Player’s Project, and others, she has had works created or remounted for her by contemporary choreographers such as Wally Cardona, Sean Curran, and Ann Carlson. Ms. teinberghas reconstructed the works of José Limón on world renowned companies, working with such dancers as Rudolph Nureyev and Karen Kain,

Colin Connor’s work prompted Jennifer Dunning, in The New York Times, to write: “It comes as something of a relief these days to see movement treated as a sufficiently expressive medium.” A soloist with the Limon Dance Company for eight years, he is the choreographer of over fifty commissions, with performances across the Americas and Europe, at the Joyce Theater in New York, and The Holland Festival in Den Hague among others. Currently on faculty at the California Institute of the Arts, he has served on the faculties of The Juilliard School, and NYU, and taught at international centers such as the London School of Contemporary Dance, the Rotterdamse Dansacademie, and Jacob’s Pillow.

 Debra Noble has danced with some of the foremost American choreographers, performed nationally and internationally as a soloist, taught a broad range of dance techniques and related studies, choreographed widely, and directed her own company. With performances across the United States and in Central America and Europe, she has danced as a member of Los Angeles’ American Repertory Dance Company, in her Solo Voices evenings, her own In Forward Motion company performances, with Connor/Noble Dance, and as a guest performer with the José Limón Dance Company.

Alan Terricciano, program musical director, is a renowned musician and composer for dance. His many collaborations include works with Donald McKayle, Colin Connor and the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. His is interim Dean of the Arts at UCI.

Tentative Class Schedule:

9:00 – 10:45      Limón Technique                       

11:00 -12:45        Teaching Methodology or Techniques of Creation                                      

12:45 –1:45         Lunch

1:45 -3:00            Breath and Movement Warm-up             

3:15 -5:00            Limon Repertory / New Repertory

REGISTRATION & CLASS PLACEMENT: SUNDAY,  June 14, 2:00-5:00 PM

Full program tuition                  $750

Part-time tuition                        $500

Housing & Meals (M-S)            $497

Room only                                   $224

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