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Geared toward Conscious Embodiment in Performance
| Somatic Movement Arts Festival Los Angeles, Sept 18-23, 2007 |
| Faculty Bios & Class Descriptions |
| Happening @ 18th Street Arts Complex, Santa Monica, CA 90404 *Highways Performance Space, 1651 18th Street *Continuum Studio #7, 1629 18th Street |
Produced by:
INTENTION
Dance Theatre
Dance Theatre
Presented by:
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| HOLLY ROTHSCHILD SOURCING IDEOKINESIS: The Inner Architecture of Energy 2 Part Intensive: Wed & Thurs, 7:30-10 pm |
Our mantra for this workshop will be “Energy Follows The Thought of The Mind.” We'll focus on
developing and organizing our inner energetic architecture and exploring how it correlates to the
physical body. We will map out an internal energy consciousness and translate it into clear form.
Then, we will build upon our energetic form by applying how the physical body moves through space in
a vital anatomical way using our weight with gravity. By sourcing fundamental concepts from
Ideokinesis, we can access a deeper understanding of our goals. Specifically by giving the nervous
system a clear vision of the intended movement and of energetic pathways. Once we have created a
clear energetic and physical form, we’ll invoke external factors to our movement enhancing our
capacity to find new and challenging ways to move. Attention will be given to applying these ideas to
witnessing and performance strategies. We want to be a clearly vibrating body.
developing and organizing our inner energetic architecture and exploring how it correlates to the
physical body. We will map out an internal energy consciousness and translate it into clear form.
Then, we will build upon our energetic form by applying how the physical body moves through space in
a vital anatomical way using our weight with gravity. By sourcing fundamental concepts from
Ideokinesis, we can access a deeper understanding of our goals. Specifically by giving the nervous
system a clear vision of the intended movement and of energetic pathways. Once we have created a
clear energetic and physical form, we’ll invoke external factors to our movement enhancing our
capacity to find new and challenging ways to move. Attention will be given to applying these ideas to
witnessing and performance strategies. We want to be a clearly vibrating body.
CLASS DESCRIPTION:
BIOGRAPHY:
Holly’s approach to teaching has evolved over a long career in dance, and from studying many forms of
movement. Early in her career, she suffered from two serious injuries and each time she was
scheduled for surgery but then found a movement mentor who helped her past her injuries. Her
first injury was a knee injury and instead of surgery, she realized that she was holding energy in her
knees while coming out of jumps and also not properly using her hamstrings while traveling through
space. This was her first introduction in to thinking about how energy is organized in the body and
how to use imagery and knowledge to change movement patterns. Her second injury was a lumbar
injury. She waited 5 months to see a specialist in Chicago and he told her to quit dancing and having
back surgery. She knew that it wasn’t an option for her. So again, she found a mentor in Nana
Shineflug, a Chicago based movement educator, who taught her a way move beyond the injury. Holly
continued to study with Nana for 8 years. She also began studying many somatic forms throughout
her process. Big influences in her work have been Ideokineses and authentic movement.
Holly is a dancer, choreographer, musician, and educator. Her collaborative and independent work has
been presented at The Eli & Edythe Broad Stage in Santa Monica, The Athenaeum Theater in
Chicago, Taste 3 in Napa, The 2006 and 2007 Grammy’s, The Wintergarden in New York City,
Taliesin North and West, “Nights” at The Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Dance Chicago, Link’s Hall
in Chicago, The Manhattan Center's Hammerstein Ballroom, Electric Lodge, Northwestern
University, The Dance Center of Columbia College in Chicago, a national tour for Dom Perignon, The
Chicago Cultural Center, The Festival Mozaic Fringe Festival in San Luis Obispo, the Fairbanks
International Summer Arts Festival and at many Universities, venues and Theaters throughout the
country. In 2008, she directed and choreographed “Grey Shanty” a short dance film that was
accepted in to the 6th Annual Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema. She has created many original
evening length dance theater pieces. She has directed original adaptations of theater works and has
choreographed several plays. Her work has received critical acclaim in Performing Arts Journal.
Holly founded String Theory with her husband Luke & cellist, Joseph Harvey. She also is the founder
and artistic director of Strange & Elegant Choreography and Performance Installations, a dance
performance company that creates site-specific image based dance. Holly is a member of Your
HUGE Head, a five person choreographic collective based in LA, which focuses on site-specific work
and collaborative choreography. As a movement educator, Holly spent several years as artist-in-
residence in the theatre dept. at Chicago's Columbia College where she taught movement for actors.
She has taught contemporary dance at Joel Hall Dance Studios, Zeal Studios in LA, Movement Lab at
the Church on Ocean Park,company class for Body Traffic at Dance Arts Academy and Hamlin Park in
Chicago. She has been a guest artist at UCLA, LMU, and CSULB. Having taught many residencies and
performance workshops throughout the US to a variety of individuals including those with
disabilities; Holly has worked with senior citizens for a San Francisco performance at the Theater
Artaud, taught movement for actors at Chicago's Second City, as well as, a contact improvisation at a
correctional facility in Alaska. She has also worked with teachers on integrating movement and art
into their curriculums and has designed and taught a credited course at the University of Anchorage
entitled "Integrating Intellectual and Physical Creativity Across the Curriculum.”
movement. Early in her career, she suffered from two serious injuries and each time she was
scheduled for surgery but then found a movement mentor who helped her past her injuries. Her
first injury was a knee injury and instead of surgery, she realized that she was holding energy in her
knees while coming out of jumps and also not properly using her hamstrings while traveling through
space. This was her first introduction in to thinking about how energy is organized in the body and
how to use imagery and knowledge to change movement patterns. Her second injury was a lumbar
injury. She waited 5 months to see a specialist in Chicago and he told her to quit dancing and having
back surgery. She knew that it wasn’t an option for her. So again, she found a mentor in Nana
Shineflug, a Chicago based movement educator, who taught her a way move beyond the injury. Holly
continued to study with Nana for 8 years. She also began studying many somatic forms throughout
her process. Big influences in her work have been Ideokineses and authentic movement.
Holly is a dancer, choreographer, musician, and educator. Her collaborative and independent work has
been presented at The Eli & Edythe Broad Stage in Santa Monica, The Athenaeum Theater in
Chicago, Taste 3 in Napa, The 2006 and 2007 Grammy’s, The Wintergarden in New York City,
Taliesin North and West, “Nights” at The Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Dance Chicago, Link’s Hall
in Chicago, The Manhattan Center's Hammerstein Ballroom, Electric Lodge, Northwestern
University, The Dance Center of Columbia College in Chicago, a national tour for Dom Perignon, The
Chicago Cultural Center, The Festival Mozaic Fringe Festival in San Luis Obispo, the Fairbanks
International Summer Arts Festival and at many Universities, venues and Theaters throughout the
country. In 2008, she directed and choreographed “Grey Shanty” a short dance film that was
accepted in to the 6th Annual Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema. She has created many original
evening length dance theater pieces. She has directed original adaptations of theater works and has
choreographed several plays. Her work has received critical acclaim in Performing Arts Journal.
Holly founded String Theory with her husband Luke & cellist, Joseph Harvey. She also is the founder
and artistic director of Strange & Elegant Choreography and Performance Installations, a dance
performance company that creates site-specific image based dance. Holly is a member of Your
HUGE Head, a five person choreographic collective based in LA, which focuses on site-specific work
and collaborative choreography. As a movement educator, Holly spent several years as artist-in-
residence in the theatre dept. at Chicago's Columbia College where she taught movement for actors.
She has taught contemporary dance at Joel Hall Dance Studios, Zeal Studios in LA, Movement Lab at
the Church on Ocean Park,company class for Body Traffic at Dance Arts Academy and Hamlin Park in
Chicago. She has been a guest artist at UCLA, LMU, and CSULB. Having taught many residencies and
performance workshops throughout the US to a variety of individuals including those with
disabilities; Holly has worked with senior citizens for a San Francisco performance at the Theater
Artaud, taught movement for actors at Chicago's Second City, as well as, a contact improvisation at a
correctional facility in Alaska. She has also worked with teachers on integrating movement and art
into their curriculums and has designed and taught a credited course at the University of Anchorage
entitled "Integrating Intellectual and Physical Creativity Across the Curriculum.”
| Holly Rothschild, photo by: Carol Peterson |
| Holly Rothschild photo by: W. Frederking |
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