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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:
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| LIZ MAXWELL LABAN ANALYSIS & BARTENIEFF FUNDAMENTALS: Demystifying Creative Process Through Somatic In-Roads 2 Part Intensive: Fri & Sat, Oct 9 & 10, 4:30-7 pm |
This workshop will use principles from Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analysis (LMA) to shed light onto
the huge, seemingly unknowable process that IS the creative impulse. My work is interested in
exploring, through image, movement and words, the nature of our own creativity. The format is
designed to find, through embodied movement and deep listening, ones’ own feeling life. The
participants will work within the format of witnessing which enhances learning as it supports
creative practice. The dialectical relationship between ourselves and our world will be further
examined as we look at our decision-making process within improvisational structures. This work will
become more transparent as we apply LMA vocabularies to better understand our personal
uniqueness through our individual decision-making style. To use what is deeply known and apply it into
the unknown is, for me, the germination of both aspects of performance: the dancer and the dance.
the huge, seemingly unknowable process that IS the creative impulse. My work is interested in
exploring, through image, movement and words, the nature of our own creativity. The format is
designed to find, through embodied movement and deep listening, ones’ own feeling life. The
participants will work within the format of witnessing which enhances learning as it supports
creative practice. The dialectical relationship between ourselves and our world will be further
examined as we look at our decision-making process within improvisational structures. This work will
become more transparent as we apply LMA vocabularies to better understand our personal
uniqueness through our individual decision-making style. To use what is deeply known and apply it into
the unknown is, for me, the germination of both aspects of performance: the dancer and the dance.
CLASS DESCRIPTION:
BIOGRAPHY:
Liz Maxwell specializes in teaching Somatic Disciplines, Dance Techniques, Composition and Dance
History. She received a BFA from Juilliard, an MFA from University of Washington and is also a
Certified Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analyst and Registered Somatic Movement Educator. Her
interests in performative and theoretical inquiry are reflected in workshops and paper
presentations at EastWest Somatics Network, Laban Institute of Movement Studies, Society of
Dance History Scholars National Dance Educators Organization and Motus Humanus. Her
choreographic work has been produced by the Fountain Theatre, LA Edge Festival and LACE among
others. Liz performed in NYC with Laura Dean, Lucinda Childs, Donald Byrd, Bill Young, Neil
Greenberg, and in LA, Trip Dance Theatre, CalArts Dance Ensemble, Joe Goode and bodytalkdance.
She has taught at many southern California colleges and recently conducted residencies at Pomona,
Denison and Elon University. Since 2006, Liz has been Assistant Professor of Dance and Somatics at
Chapman University.
History. She received a BFA from Juilliard, an MFA from University of Washington and is also a
Certified Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analyst and Registered Somatic Movement Educator. Her
interests in performative and theoretical inquiry are reflected in workshops and paper
presentations at EastWest Somatics Network, Laban Institute of Movement Studies, Society of
Dance History Scholars National Dance Educators Organization and Motus Humanus. Her
choreographic work has been produced by the Fountain Theatre, LA Edge Festival and LACE among
others. Liz performed in NYC with Laura Dean, Lucinda Childs, Donald Byrd, Bill Young, Neil
Greenberg, and in LA, Trip Dance Theatre, CalArts Dance Ensemble, Joe Goode and bodytalkdance.
She has taught at many southern California colleges and recently conducted residencies at Pomona,
Denison and Elon University. Since 2006, Liz has been Assistant Professor of Dance and Somatics at
Chapman University.
| Liz Maxwell photo: CalArts Dance Ensemble |
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