Winter 2023 - Class Recordings
Playlist
Boot Camp and Fluid & Funky Phrases will use music from this Spotify playlist- Mixtape 25
Boot Camp
Week 1 (01/18/23): Mechanics of down hips, diagonal downs, range of motion, quarter/eighth/sixteenth notes, 3/4. Our varying timing drill with arms - we’ll be doing this weekly.
Week 2 (01/25/23): Shimmy drill, down hips with stagger, unweighted into weighted downs, walking 3/4 down, work on our drill for the session.
Week 3 (02/02/23): Shimmy drill, undulations up, twists with down hips, our drill for the session
Week 4 (02/08/23): No class but here’s Boot Camp class from 09/29/20 with some visits from a tiny Doug, and work with shimmies, up hips, hand waves, shoulder/chest/undulation, interior hip circles - most of them with feet and arms.
Week 5 (02/15/23)
Shimmy drill, 3/4 down starting on the beat & starting before the beat (with a pick up), chest mobilization with chest tilts then short drill, finger and wrist circles.
Week 6 (02/22/23): Continuing our work with down hips, we took them side to side, did unweighted double downs. We worked a new drill with interior hip circles and twisting downs, did our down hips drill. Chest mobility and finger, wrist, elbow circles from last week were repeated and added to.
Week 7 (03/01/23)
Shimmy drill, down hip drill
Week 8 (03/09/23)
Shimmy drill, down hips, our down hips drill (last time!), shoulder circles, mobius strip
Fluid & Funky Phrases
Week 1: Hits & Locks
Music: Reality by Padma Purana
Week 2 (01/25/23): Phrases on both sides. Music: US by Tiny Deaths
Week 3: Snakey Spine
Music:
Week 4 (02/09/23) Snaky spine part 2. Music: Flying by Garth Stevenson
Week 6 (02/23/23): Making phrases using concepts from Once More with Feeling. Music Life by Ludovico Enaudi
Week 7 (03/02/23)
Both sides to Cosmica
Creative Movement
Week 1: Time - repetition using changing time, unusual time, free play.
Week 2 (01/26/23): Duration - the length something takes, how long you 'do' something. Layering with Load/Unload. Layering with Open/Close. Trying Duration, Load/Unload and Open/Close together.
Week 3 (02/02/23): Long & short, spinner play
Week 4 (02/09/23): We worked with exploring space as if we were aliens, as if we’d never seen our space before, putting eye in various parts of our bodies. Looking from a distance as well as close up. But I didn’t record it (it’s been that kind of week). So instead, enjoy a recording from 101520 where we explore Space, Shape, Contrast and Direction.
Week 7 (03/02/23)
Working with Suspend, Swing, Percussive, Sustained
Week 8 (03/09/23)
Warming up with feet to head and back down to feet again. Unusual time: Greedily, Shudder, Slip.
Relationship between ribcage and pelvis, elbows and knees, hands and feet. Revisit unusual time.