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are dedicated to nurturing the unique creativity of your own
expression, through the exploration and practice of contemporary
methods with passionate, intelligent, and informed artist-instructors.
Links Hall is located at 3435 N. Sheffield Avenue, Chicago.
CTA Trains/Buses: Red Line to Addison or Belmont, Brown line
to Belmont, Clark Bus to Clark/Newport. Driving: parking is
a challenge, there are meters and residential codes apply.
Pay lots are available up to $20. Please call us for directions,
suggestions. Links Hall is a second floor walk-up; there is
no elevator or escalator.
For more information or to register for
any of the following workshops contact Erica or CJ at 773.281.0824
or info@linkshall.org.
Links Hall is located at 3435 N. Sheffield
Avenue, convenient to the Addison Red Line El stop.
CLASS POLICIES
Classes are usually open to all participants with at least
beginning/intermediate skills in body/mind awareness (such
as those developed through dance, yoga, martial arts, etc.)
Please wear bare feet and comfortable clothing, and arrive
at least 5 minutes prior to class to sign in and change. Refunds
only in cases of illness or injury.
Please check the Links Hall bulletin board
for independent dance and movement
classes that are going on in the space.
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Jonathan Meyer, Khecari
Dance Theatre
Company class: advanced modern/post-modern technique
November 2, 9, & 16, 2006
Thursdays from 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
$12 per class or $30 for all three
Experience Meyer's unique contemporary fusion of modern techniques
(particularly Cunningham and Taylor), release technique, and capoeira.
Meyer will focus on developing core strength and subtlety, integrating
power with release, balancing the use of arms and legs as both support
and gestural limbs, and enhancing clarity of initiation and flow in
sequential movement. Dancers are invited to use these classes either
as preparation for Khecari's November 17 auditions or simply as drop-in
technique classes.
Jonathan Meyer has studied dance at Oberlin
College and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and
has performed and/or studied intensively with the High Risk Group,
Pierre-Paul Savoir, Elizabeth Streb, Maestre Medicina, Chicago Dance
Crash, and The Seldoms. His teaching derives largely from his choreographic
work with Khecari Dance Theatre, which relocated to Chicago in 2006
after four years based in New Mexico. www.khecari.org
Moshe Cohen
Humor Your Performer
November 6 & 7, 2006
Monday & Tuesday from 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
$60
Moshe Cohen teaches and performs internationally. He founded the
Institute of Sacred Mischief and Contemplative Clowning (i.smacc)
at the Zen Center in Los Angeles. Moshe's workshops offer opportunities
to explore humor in a light-hearted, safe non-judgmental arena that
is often filled with concentrated levity. He brings into the workshops
what he has learned from his teachers over many years, including
Richard Pochinko, Phillipe Gaulier, Kazuo Ohno, and Members of the
Roy Hart Theater.
This workshop explores integrating humor into performance.
The primary exploration will focus upon Pochinko Style clown, clown
character and the inner connection to one's humor and its expression
outwards using various forms of physical theater and improvisation.
Additionally, the workshop will touch on clown through the lens
of butohclown, an intersection between contemporary clown and butoh
dance (Kazuo Ohno linage).
Sarah Best
Do-It-Yourself Grant Research
November 18, 2006
Saturday from 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
$30
This workshop will provide artists and arts administrators with
the tools needed to identify new sources of funding and write smarter
grants. Learn where to find grant information on the internet, understand
Requests for Proposals, scan documents to discern a Foundation's
funding priorities, and share your story with other administrators
and independent artists.
Sarah Best has done grant research and writing for
Links Hall, Local Infinities Visual Theater, and the Jim Henson
Foundation. She taught Do-It-Yourself Marketing and Publicity at
Links Hall this past spring.
Chris Aiken & Angie Hauser
Dwell: IMPROVISING HOME
A composition workshop
November 25-26, 2006
Saturday from 1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Sunday from 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm
$65, sliding scale available
This workshop focuses on composition and dance improvisation, centered
around the process of transforming space into place, and creating
worlds for our imaginations to dwell. The artists approach this
by engaging in an eclectic collection of activities, including dancing,
improvising, building, designing and observing. Expand your awareness
of how to compose, and gain new perspectives and approaches to composing.
All levels welcome.
Photo: William Frederking
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