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Pre-registration required for all workshops. Register with credit card online or make checks payable to Links Hall. Questions? Contact Erica at 773.281.0824 or emott@linkshall.org
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.
For more information or to register for any of the following
workshops contact Erica at 773.281.0824 or emott@linkshall.org
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.
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 for movement
classes, and arrive at least 5 minutes prior to all classes
to sign in and change. Refunds only in cases of illness or
injury.
Visit the Study
Groups and Jams page for independent dance and movement
classes that occur regularly in the studio.
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 Molly Shanahan/Mad Shak
Personal Movement Practice Workshop
The boredom and beauty of a personal movement practice sit side by side in close, and strangely supportive, dialogue.
Sat, July 25 / 1-5pm,
Sun, July 26 / 2:30-5:30pm
Mon, July 27, 2009 / 6:30-9pm
$65 for all three days, Register Now!
This workshop is for the artist who wishes to deepen, provoke or propel his/her movement practice, guided by the fluid structure of Shanahan's direction, suggestion and support. Emphasis is placed on identifying and softening limiting boundaries with both courage and gentleness, reframing judgment to allow for delight and discovery, and expanding witnessing, to become more aware of potential and choice. Shanahan directs this journey with invitations to move, observe and relish in discovering. No particular emphasis is placed on performance. Movers need to be emotionally mature, able to self-reflect and curious about their own capacity to learn from themselves.
Molly Shanahan/Mad Shak (Chicago) supports innovation and collaboration though the development and presentation of dance performances and other programs that engage the public in a deeper understanding and appreciation of the creative process. www.madshak.com
 Dody DiSanto
Buffoon Laboratory Intensive Weekend
Fri, July 31 / 6-10pm, Sat, August 1 / 10am - 6pm
and Sun, August 2, 2009 / 2:30 – 7:30pm
$275, Register Now!
Come discover the darkly comedic and highly physical character performance form of the Buffoon with Lecoq trained Master Teacher, Dody DiSanto
Buffoons come from somewhere else. They are connected to the verticality of mystery. They are part of the relationship between heaven and earth, of which they reverse their values. They spit on the heavens and invoke the earth. Buffoons are organized hierarchically, and live in a perfect society without conflict, where each person finds their exact place. They exhibit before us, in an anomalous manner - close to a parade, our proper folly. They play our society and its themes of power, science, religion through organized follies according to precise rules, where the most feeble may be in charge of everyone. The buffoons denounce and at the same time propose a tragic space.
The buffoon is a creature come to tell us everything we don't want to know about ourselves, to mock everything we hold most dear. The buffoon is full of rage, of spite, of mal intent. But most of all, full of fun.
come birth your buffoon
have a romp through the stages of childhood
and discover your grotesque glory!
~the instruments of percussion beat the time~
~the rhythm and the dance hammer the floor~
~the ritual reveals the mystery~
Dody DiSanto is a teacher, performer, director and movement specialist. Dody was trained in Paris, holding an esteemed position as a teaching protégé of the late Jacques Lecoq
TRAINING: Diploma, teaching certificate, Laboratoire Etude de Movement from Ecole Jacques Lecoq, where she received a private pedagogic apprenticeship; Etienne Decroux: corporal mime; Ecole Nationale du Cirque: wire, juggling, acrobatics and tap, under the direction of Annie Fratellini; George Washington University: Fine Arts, Dance; Corcoran College of Art and Design. Nationally Certified for Massage Therapy and Bodywork.
TEACHING: Faculty at The Academy for Classical Acting for The Shakespeare Theatre at The George Washington University, Yale School of Drama, The Catholic University of America and at The Center for Movement Theatre in Washington DC; Corcoran College of Art and Design: Dynamic Studies in Space, Gesture and Structure; Theatre of Creation Festival: assistant to Jacques Lecoq; Ringling Clown College, and many years of residencies, workshops and coaching in various settings from academia to the curb of life.
PERFORMANCE: Off-Broadway at LaMaMa E.T.C., Lincoln Center Serious Fun Festival, Theatre for the New City, the Avignon Festival and for television and film. Founder and artistic director of Membrane Theatre Ensemble, and a member of several ensembles, including Chantier Theatre, Present Company, Phoenix Dance Theatre and Barking Rooster Theatre. Member Actor’s Equity. |
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