APRIL 2007 WORKSHOPS  
 

Links Hall’s workshops 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.

 

 

Goat Island
Performance Workshop

Saturday, April 7, 10am-4pm
$60

Chicago-based Goat Island Performance Group present a workshop focusing on strategies for working collaboratively to investigate creative forms of thought and presentation. Disciplines of performance, writing, movement, research, and creative response will be examined in various forms and combinations. Appropriate for a diverse mix of participants, with a broad range of age and artistic experience.
www.goatislandperformance.org

Erin Carlisle Norton
Details in the Making: Merging Technique and Improvisation

Saturdays, April 14 & 28, 2pm-4pm
Sunday, April 22, 2pm-4pm
$15, $36 for all three
Photo by Maria Hadden

This workshop is open to all movers interested in the action of dancing; integrating elements of full-bodied connected movement with the innate sense of choice and possibility in improvisation. The workshops will introduce movement through the work of Irmgard Bartenieff to find internal body connections, and Laban Movement Analysis to attune to space and movement dynamics. Participants will be encouraged to explore their full body movement potential and their own inclinations as movers and observers. Erin Carlisle Norton’s integrative approach of technique with improvisational tools is central to her choreographic creative process, including the creation of Loop Detail, performing April 13-15 at Links Hall. Erin is a Certified Movement Analyst (CMA) in Rudolf Laban and Bartenieff Studies.
 
 

Sprung Movement Theatre
Neutral Mask

Saturday, April 21, 10am-4pm
$50

This workshop brings students into contact with the Neutral Mask, an innovative tool for helping achieve the state of open, forward, moving, physically engaged curiosity central to live performance. By learning how to respond to the imagined through the observation of the known, students are given the opportunity to radicalize their way of being on stage. Sprung is the only company in Chicago that offers study with the real Neutral Mask, designed by Amleto Sartori and Jacques Lecoq. Come dressed to move.
www.sprungtheatre.com
 
 


Abdoulaye Camara & Amy Osterman
West African Dance & Drum Workshop

Sunday, April 29
Djembe Drum Workshop 2pm-3pm
West African Dance Workshop 3pm-5pm
$15 Drum, $15 Dance, $25 for both

During the drum workshop, students will learn 3 djembe (West African hand drum) accompaniment patterns from Guinea, West Africa. Each pattern is broken down in an accessible way for beginners as well as more advanced learners. Leave with renewed energy, a better understanding of African culture and new rhythm and movement material to access. Limited Djembe drums will be provided. Dance class will be accompanied by live music. The choreography will be a blend of modern and traditional African dance movement, set to the drum rhythm learned in class. Abdoulaye Camara is native to Guinea, West Africa, and has over 25 years experience as an artist and instructor, traveling worldwide to share his expertise on African culture. Amy Osterman is a dance instructor and performer of West African dance. She teaches on-going classes in Chicago.
www.allatantoudance.se


 




















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