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Performa Studio is conceived as a public, process-based program, placing emphasis on the creative research, experimentation, and learning, that occurs during the artistic process within a studio environment, to consider what it means to think with both mind and body.
ALL PERFORMA STUDIO EVENTS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Artists and choreographers Moriah Evans and Isabel Lewis have devised a program of open rehearsals, classes, participatory group work, and talks, uniting choreography, movement, somatic practices, sound, music, and discussion in a specially designed space by architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro—housing an exploratory program that fosters collaboration with both participants and audiences, creating a community space for events of all kinds.
Each artist’s program considers what dance and movement can mean as a social, collaborative, political act, to consider the formation of individual movement and collective movement. Throughout the Performa Studio program, Evans and Lewis will address a series of fundamental questions: What does it mean to move as an individual and what does it mean to move as a group? What is the relationship between individual and collective consciousness? What differentiates vigorous collective movements from chaos? And what roles can structured choreographic movement, and seemingly chaotic, unstructured movement, play in creating societal change?
Barbara Mahler, a choreographer, performer, movement educator, and body worker, is a master teacher of and major contributor to Klein Technique™
Klein Technique,™ is a living and growing body of work initially developed by Susan Klein in the mid 70’s, originally a response to the formal dance training available at that time. It has continued to develop, becoming a source of information, and empowerment for dancers of all styles, its ultimate goal being increased coordination, facility and the lessening or prevention of injury. Klein Technique is a body of work, concise and yet continually evolving. The main thrust of the work is for dancers to find their own essence, identity and integrity and take that into movement. In order to do that, we work at the level of the bone, not the traditional level of the muscles. Klein Technique is not a release technique, in that our goal is not to release, but to move. In order to move most efficiently, it is necessary to release or let go of the muscles that hold us back from moving, and fix the body and the mind into set and locked configurations. When the bones are aligned we become connected, we become powerful and strong. The body becomes efficient and alive, and injuries often heal.