|
clAssEs
Calendar
Class
list
Teachers
Master
classes
Workshops
Cancellations
|
Master
Classes
Bozenka in Boston!
A Raqs Sharki Workshop: Advanced Oriental Technique and Choreography
Saturday, July 26th 2008
1:30 PM to 5 PM.
$70 if paid by July 6th, $80 at door
To Register for the Workshop via Paypal: ($70.00 + 2.33 transaction
fee: $72.33).
Send Payments to arabiyya@gmail.com
To Mail a Check – Please contact Meiver: 781-962-1983 / arabiyya@gmail.com
Bozenka is one of the most
widely praised and recognized instructors and performers of Middle
Eastern Dance, world wide. She continues touring with the popular
dance company, “The Belly Dance Superstars” as a featured
soloist and instructor, throughout the United States, Canada and
Europe, and on her own. Her style is characterized by her strong
and impressive hip work, her earthy elegance, and her mesmerizing,
carefully articulated presentation of the dance. Bozenka has choreographed
for Latin pop star Shakira, performed with “Alabina”
during their concert tour in Miami Beach, and entertained many celebrities
including Sean Connery, Donald Trump, Hugh Hefner, Madonna, and
Enrique Iglesias. Her special teaching technique and her wonderful
spirit make her workshops a fulfilling and motivating experience
for all who attend.
back
to top
Workshops
Michael Jahoda 3 week Workshop
July 31, August 7, August 14
5:45 - 8:15 pm
$15 per workshop/$35 for all 3 worshops
Each workshop session
will consist of Master Class, Repertory, and Improvisation
Live accompaniment is provided
Master Class
The Muller Technique, organic, inspirational and energetic, teaches
increased freedom of movement, fluidity, control and awareness.
Based on Eastern Philosophy, the Muller Technique acknowledges an
energy system in the body as the internal source of movement. The
technique in known to increase technical skill, encourage expression
and prevent injury through the holistic use of the body as a living
instrument.
Repertory
Excerpts of finely crafted dance making will be learned and provide
the departure point for research, class material and improvisation.
Improvisation
Improvisation tasks will be used to further explore core concepts
outside of set class material and choreography.
Call or email to reserve a place 617-864-3191/info@greenstreetstudios.org
Michael Jahoda is a teacher,
performer and choreographer from Schenectady, New York.
He is currently teaching at Boston University, making his own work,
and he is the Artistic Director of the GNAF 2008, the Gloucester
New Arts Festival.
Michael began his professional
career as a guest with New York City Ballet in Jerome Robbins’
Mother Goose. He later worked with ESIPA - the Empire State Institute
for the Performing Arts, and with the Empire State Dance Ensemble.
1986 he received a scholarship to the Alvin Ailey American Dance
Center in New York City and in 1987 was invited to join The Alvin
Ailey Repertory Ensemble. From 1988-1995 Michael was a principle
dancer with Jennifer Muller/The Works in NYC. He was featured throughout
the repertory and received critical acclaim in the United States
and abroad.
Anna Kisselgoff for The New York
Times wrote, "a superlative dancer of great speed and nuance...
with a lightness that makes him look as if he barely touches the
floor... he is downright terrific.” Rick Whitaker for Dance
Magazine wrote “gorgeous control and extravagant impulse and
expression... Jahoda is one of the most admirable dancers in town.”.
Teaching and performing engagements have taken him from New York
to Holland, to Germany, Belgium, France, Denmark, Italy, Andorra,
Austria, Poland, the Czech Rep., Sweden, Finland, Spain, Russia,
Brazil, Japan, Hong Kong, the Caribbean, and to 20 of the United
States.
Michael is an accredited teacher
of the Muller Technique; a highly developed modern dance technique,
and since 1989 he has been teaching classes and workshops internationally.
In New York he primarily taught at the Peridance Center and regularly
gave company class for Jennifer Muller/the Works. He has been invited
to Connecticut College, the State Universities of New York and Hawaii,
and Stephens College, Columbia, MI., amongst others. In 1993 Michael
began a continuing guest-teaching engagement with De Rotterdamse
Dansacademie in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, where he has been teaching
several months per year. He has also been invited to teach for Tsech
Festival-Moscow, DV8-UK, Arena 225 Zurich, de Theater School, Amsterdam,
Artemis Kunstcentrum / Henny Jurriens Stichting, Amsterdam, the
Kölner Tanz Agentur, Cologne, Stadt Theater Linz-Austria, Charlerois/Dances-Plan
K, Belgium, and Balettakademien Goteborg, Sweden, amongst others.
In 1995 Michael moved to Europe
and until 1997 he split his time between teaching at de Rotterdamse
Dansacademie and dancing as a guest soloist with Tanz-Forum Köln-Germany,
under the direction of Jochin Ulrich. In 1997 he moved to Amsterdam,
the Netherlands where he taught classes and workshops, and danced
in various freelance productions and festivals. From 1997 to 2005
he was a featured dancer with Anouk van Dijk’s anoukvandijkdc.
They have collaborated on eight productions including Stau, an intimate
site specific duet that has traveled to Switzerland, Poland, the
Czech Rep and Russia, and most recently at MassMoca in January 2006.
For more details please see www. anoukvandijk.com
In 2001 he began an intense and
important collaboration with Finnish video artist Pasi Granqvist.
Michael and Pasi formed the Phillip Project, an artistic collaboration
based in Amsterdam that has created a series of interrelated multi-media
episodes that range from five-hour performance-installations to
club performances to intricate sound and film installations. These
episodes have revolved around Phillip, a fictitious character that
is the leitmotif of the Phillip Project. The Phillip Project is
now based in Amsterdam and Boston, Massachusetts.
Episode 14 - Just dreaming, just
wondering, just remembering to remember, was recently performed
at Green Street Studios. Of Episode 14 , Theodore Bale of the Boston
Herald recently wrote for Critical Dance:
"Jahoda is a performer
and choreographer of considerable experience and undisputable
merit... a versatile lean body that seems to carve through space
as if it were an air bubble trapped in infinite solidness. His
unique choreography stands out from the local scene for its emphatic
style, rich movement vocabulary, and radical approach to the possibilities
of even the most mundane space. Jahoda seems to have been born
for the stage."
Puoli Kaupunkia Helsinki / A
Ydinkeskusta wrote “The viewer has a special privilege to
step into the works’ world, rich in form, move within the
space as the performance changes and experience Phillip’s
personal view of freedom on both an intellectual and emotional level”
and de Rotterdams Dagblad wrote “Nothing can compete against
the experience of so many contemporary elements and the respect
for so much guts and originality”
For more about the Phillip Project
please visit www.phillipproject.com
For more about the GNAF - Gloucester New Arts Festival pleae visit
www.newartsfestival.com
...
back
to top
Cancellations
For
last minute class notices
and cancellations,
please
call
us at 617.864.3191 !
back
to top |
