Embodying the Body Workshop

DSC_0278.jpg

Embodying the Body Workshop - Links Hall Kristina Isabelle Dance Company Links Hall Workshop

Mondays and Wednesdays in September 2012 Sept. 3 & 5, 10 & 12, 17 & 19, 24 & 26

The workshop will include: 10:00-11:30 Technique Class 11:30-1:00 Repertory

Early Bird Registration Sign up by Aug 30th $160.00 for both classes or $80 for one class (technique or rep) After Sept. 3rd $192.00 both or $96 for one

Drop-ins Welcomed: $12 a class

Students, low-income, rate available upon inquiry

Technique Class Embodying the Body will incorporate improvisation and dynamic phrase work to help refine and define our movement choices. The warm-up will awaken the body, mind and senses to qualitative movement experiences that will help develop a range of movement choices leading us to more freedom and awareness to not only develop new movement possibilities but also continue to open pathways for deeper physical expression. Pushing the body to tell the stories within and pushing the boundaries of what is physically possible. The class will focus on building strong dancers and engaging performers.

Repertory I will be work-shopping new material for my upcoming project The Floating City as part of the 2012 Chicago Dance Makers Forum Lab Artist award. The movement will include a full range of physicality to subtle internal body initiations.

For more information: http://www.linkshall.org/12-pw-sep.shtml

To Register: http://kristinaisabellelh.eventbrite.com/

Memories ReMixed - Dec. 12-13, 2012

MG_8824Purple-Project.jpg

950x400homepage1  

Memories ReMixed: Moving Through Time with a Nod to the Bicentennial is an evening of dance works created in responses to the memory of time and place inspired by the Bicentennial of Columbus.

Kristina Isabelle Dance Company will premiere Longing Ahead Looking Back. The work will feature video taken throughout the city.  Conceived and directed by Isabelle, filmed by Craig Bortmas and Jason Brabbs, edited by JR Gualtieri, music performed live by Michael Wall and collaboratively created by company members Jeff Fouch, Eric Falck, Gabby Stefura, Isabelle and special guest artist John Giffin.

Another Columbus premiere will be The Floating City, a solo by Isabelle that explores the state of unknown, a world in between the real and now where physicality dives into magic realism.  Isabelle collaborated with video artist JR Gualtieri to create an ever-shifting environment in flux.   This is the first draft of a larger project that will be presented in Columbus and Chicago in the fall of 2013.

Also on the program and the first to feature our new dual city performers two from Chicago Diana Deaver and Marc Macaranas with Columbus company member Maggie Page will be Through the Blinds, a trio to Tchaikovsky’s String Quartet #3 in E-Flat, an intimate look into the obsessive inner worlds of the desire to connect with others.

Special guests Karen Bell and Vera Blaine return to their duet collaboration after a 5-year hiatus. Aging, shoes, and finding just the right exercise is reflected in this most recent work, BOOT CAMP (“Heel Talk” revisited).