DNE Weekend

The Dance Friday Community invites you to the
Dance New England Weekend May 1-3, 2009
Friday, May 1st Dance Friday

Brookline Tai Chi Center, 1615 Beacon St., Brookline

8:00-midnight DJs Robin WIlliams will kick off our weekend (Not the furry Comedian the one with soul funk, world, folk and dance toys to share). Nina Coil will finish off the evening and she guarantees to grab you by the heart and soul and keep you on the dance floor until you beg for mercy. Nick Linsky wIll be our host.

Saturday, May 2nd
Morning Workshops: Vernissage Restaurant 1627 Beacon St, Brookline
10-10:30 Registration: Opening Circle: Tea and coffee
10:45-11:45: Theatre Improv - Dev Luthra
10:45-11:45: Nia - Barbara Niles
12-1: Intimacy - Brynn Bishop
noon-1pm Argentine Tango Miles
Lunch: 1:00-2:30
Afternoon Workshops at Brookline Tai Chi Center
2:30-4: Journey Dance - Suzy Spivey
2:30-4: Open Level Contact The Collaborative Gesture - Olivier Besson
4:15-5:45: Partnering - Danny Trenner & Gregory Sanon
4:15-5:45: African Dance - Wyoma
Dinner: 6:00-7:30 Off-Campus in Washington Sq Brookline.

6:30-7:30: Dance Setup* Brookline Tai Chi Center 1615 Beacon St Brookline
7:30-1am: Saturday Evening Dance & Boogie
Brookline Tai Chi Center
7:30-8:30 Salsa Rueda - Danny Trenner
8:30-1:00am DJ'd Dance - Astrid Lewis, Chad Lewis, and David Sheppard; Mareba Jos will be our hostess.

Sunday, May 3d
Brookline Tai Chi Center, 1615 Beacon St., Brookline
11 -1 Brunch & Community Meeting
1:15- 2:45: Roth 5 Rhythms® Margaux Medicine Dancer
1:15- 2:45: Tai Yoga Partner Massage Technique - Joanna Roper and Cecile Raynor.
3 -4:30: Poi - Leslie Woodworth
3 -4:30: Awakening the Spine - Neige Christenson



For more information, email Robin Williams at robin-w@comcast.net.
Please register as soon as possible! Fill out the form below and send registration to: John Voss, 91 Beals St. #2, Brookline Ma. 02446 Make check out to: Movement Collective postmarked before 4-24-09: $69, full weekend.

At the door: $85 If you are unable to attend community meeting on Sunday please consider donating an additional $5 to assist those who will be doing the work to put on Summer camp. Sunday Only at door $35. Dance Friday, not included in registration fee: $8-12. Saturday night dance only, sliding scale adults $12-$16, teens $6-12. Meeting free, Individual classes if there is room: $15/60min class; $25/90min. class. Lunch $12

If you are planning on bringing children they are welcome to attend most classes with you. (Please check with the teacher to find out if the class is appropriate for all ages.) Or contact Donna Lomp at donnatori@rcn.com who will assist you in hiring a sitter to watch your child while you are in class. The parents cooperative will consult with parents and children and pick a field trip destination: Science museum, aquarium? Cost per child for a sitter during daytime workshops will be $4 per hour paid directly to the sitter. The parents cooperative will have a sitter at each evenings dance. Each family is to pay $5 directly to the sitter for each evening dance you attend.

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Be sure to join us at Brookline Tai Chi Center, 1615 Beacon Street, on June 5th, 2009, for our one year anniversary in Brookline and 33 years as a community-led dance celebration, 8-midnight.



Theatre Improv - Speak, listen, act, react. When? Now? Yes! Too late? Jump! Jump? Again! Go! Stop! Sit. Stand. Notice. Breathe. Look. Look again! Its me. Its you! Its them! Its us! Breathe. Dev Luthra trained as an actor at the East 15 Acting School, London, England, and at Shakespeare and Company in Lenox, MA.. He has taught acting, directing, movement and improvisation to students from middle school to college age. He is Artistic Director of And Still We Rise Productions.

Thai Yoga Massage with Cécile Raynor and Joanna Roper - An Ancient Healing Art created by the Buddha's physician, it is a therapy that is both dynamic and relaxing. The practitioner guides the receiver through a series of Yoga postures while palming and thumbing along the body's energy lines. Cécile Raynor is a certified Movement practitioner. She has been practicing in Brookline for 15 years.

Awakening the Spine - A fluid and enlivened spine supports both vigorous and delicate connection to our partner. We will focus on this marvelous central axis. Neige Christenson: improvisational dancer, still inspired by Contact after 25 years.

The Dance of Intimacy - We all want to be loved, understood and accepted as we are. Through the vehicles of movement, breath, energy, eye gazing, authentic dialog and deep listening, we will experience deeper connection. Brynn Bishop is a dancer, Tantric Educator and Intimacy Coach. She assists women, men and couples in increasing their capacity for intimacy and pleasure.

The Collaborative Gesture - (Open Level / Contact Improvisation) Contact improv is a compassionate dance of reciprocity. Through the practice of following and leading one another, we eventually join forces and evolve the dance into a simultaneous collaborative gesture. Olivier Besson is on faculty in the dance division of the Boston Conservatory. He continues to run the Movement Improv Jams with Live Music in Cambridge.

Salsa Rueda with Danny Trenner and Gregory Sanon - Get started on the basics of salsa in a fun and relaxed environment. We will work on the FUNdamentals and yet we promise it will not be all work no play! The basic as well as turn variations and passes ought to get you moving and looking good in no time flat! Come with a partner or solo, all ages are welcome to show off what you have learned. They are also teaching Partnering, lessons in leading and following.

Traditional West African Dance - Learn dances of welcome, harvest, and initiation from Africa, the Caribbean and Brazil from a master instructor. Wyoma will guide you in a celebration of life. No prior dance experience required. Come move your body with passion and joy! Wyoma has worked in the U.S. and internationally as a choreographer and teacher for over 30 years. She is also a mind-body consultant who works with individuals and groups utilizing dance therapy, for aligning body and spirit through breath and movement.

NIA with Barbara Niles - Nia is an expressive body-mind movement and lifestyle practice, embracing fitness and health. It offers both traditional fitness benefits (cardiovascular conditioning, flexibility, strength, balance, endurance) and more esoteric benefits (concentration, playfulness, self-discovery, creativity, healing).

Journey Dance with Suzy Spivey - Experience this high-energy movement process—release, shake loose, let go to freedom. Access your inner power, aliveness, and passionate heart. Burst forth with energy, expand freely into space, vibrate with joy and celebrate your life! Rejuvenate body, mind, and spirit in ritual and prayer dance to create the life you want. Access your inner desires and manifest your dreams! No dance experience needed!

Argentine Tango with Miles - Argentine Tango has been thrilling dancers for more than 100 years. Tango is loved by dancers and audiences for its beauty, passion, drama and excitement. Learning to dance tango socially is based on improvisational movement and respecting both your partner and the other dancers on the floor. The essence of Argentine tango is about life and, especially, about the relationship between a man and a woman.

Poi with Leslie Woodworth - Poi spinning originated with the Māori people of New Zealand. From its beginnings Poi had the purpose of enhancing dance and rhythm. The Poi dance was originally used by the Māori women for keeping their hands flexible for weaving, and by the men for strength and coordination required during battle.

5 Rhythms® with Margaux Medicine Dancer The 5 Rhythms are states of beings. Flowing, Staccato, Chaos, Lyrical, Stillness. They will take you anywhere you yearn to go. All you need to do is move until you are moved. The Roth 5 Rhythms dance you into a poet of sensation. They are continuum's of earth energy, the clarity of fire and the heartbeat, the spontaneously eruptions of water waves breaking in rhythm on shores and landscapes of our inner and outer self. They are the deep, divine pools of stillness that only come from knowing the rush of blood pumping through our veins, while the human scatteredness and monkey mind is carried to calm and completion. For more info about Margaux Medicine Dancer, Certified Roth 5 Rhythms teacher, www.dancingoutloud.com