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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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| RAJENDRA SERBER CONTACT IMPROVISAITON Tensegrity - Thurs, Oct 8, 9-11:30am Integration of the Senses - Sat, Oct 10, 12:30-3pm |
CLASS DESCRIPTIONS:
BIOGRAPHY:
Rajendra has taught Contact Improv in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Norway and Australia. He began life
as a dancer wrestling with his father, who was a national wrestling champion in Argentina. Since that
time he has studied a variety of physical forms: Contact Improvisation, Cuningham Technique, Release
Shelton Mann, Scott Wells, Nita Little, Kathleen Hermsdoff, Simone Forte, Oguri, Akira Kasi, Viola
Farber, Daniel Lepkoff... and Others.
Recently Rajendra has been focusing on making choreography for film. This year he was awarded the
DANCE MOViES Commission and is a resident at San Francisco Film Society's FilmHouse. He was a
2008 recipient of the Choreographers in Mentorship Exchange award. He directed and performed in his
own multimedia group, The RK Corral, which was supported by grants form the Zellerbach Family Fund,
had residencies at The LAB and 848 Community Space, and was nominated for multiple Isadora Duncan
Awards and Lester Horton Dance Awards. From 1996 to 1997 he was the Associate Producer of House
of Dance, which was broadcast bimonthly on San Francisco's public access channel.
As a dancer Rajendra has had the privilege of collaborating with many wonderful artists: Scott Wells,
Sara Shelton Mann, The Residents, Ilaan Egeland, Jon Weaver, Kimiko Guthrie and Eric Kupers of
Dandelion Dancetheater. Currently Serber is working on the big screen version of The RK Corral's
space western GoodGuy/BadGuy.
See Rajendra's website: http://rjndr.net
as a dancer wrestling with his father, who was a national wrestling champion in Argentina. Since that
time he has studied a variety of physical forms: Contact Improvisation, Cuningham Technique, Release
Shelton Mann, Scott Wells, Nita Little, Kathleen Hermsdoff, Simone Forte, Oguri, Akira Kasi, Viola
Farber, Daniel Lepkoff... and Others.
Recently Rajendra has been focusing on making choreography for film. This year he was awarded the
DANCE MOViES Commission and is a resident at San Francisco Film Society's FilmHouse. He was a
2008 recipient of the Choreographers in Mentorship Exchange award. He directed and performed in his
own multimedia group, The RK Corral, which was supported by grants form the Zellerbach Family Fund,
had residencies at The LAB and 848 Community Space, and was nominated for multiple Isadora Duncan
Awards and Lester Horton Dance Awards. From 1996 to 1997 he was the Associate Producer of House
of Dance, which was broadcast bimonthly on San Francisco's public access channel.
As a dancer Rajendra has had the privilege of collaborating with many wonderful artists: Scott Wells,
Sara Shelton Mann, The Residents, Ilaan Egeland, Jon Weaver, Kimiko Guthrie and Eric Kupers of
Dandelion Dancetheater. Currently Serber is working on the big screen version of The RK Corral's
space western GoodGuy/BadGuy.
See Rajendra's website: http://rjndr.net
SOMA fest
In the class we will use contact improvisation to explore somatic communication. The focus will be on
integration of our senses to heighten our perception of ourselves and our partners. We will warm up
with sensory exploration and practice techniques for learning, and playing with, the unique qualities of a
partner -- moving beyond a static understanding of physiology to a holistic perception of kinetic,
energetic and emotional bodies. We will develop our awareness of what our contact communicates, and
practice listening skills to respond to what is being offered. Then we will use that as a guide to dance
in a playful dialog with our partner.
integration of our senses to heighten our perception of ourselves and our partners. We will warm up
with sensory exploration and practice techniques for learning, and playing with, the unique qualities of a
partner -- moving beyond a static understanding of physiology to a holistic perception of kinetic,
energetic and emotional bodies. We will develop our awareness of what our contact communicates, and
practice listening skills to respond to what is being offered. Then we will use that as a guide to dance
in a playful dialog with our partner.
| Rajendra dancing in Scott Wells & Dancers 2009 |
Rajendra Serber
Rajendra Serber
Rajendra Serber
INTEGRATION of the SENSES: Sat, Oct 10, 12:30-3pm
TENSEGRITY: Thurs, Oct 8, 9-11:30am
in partnership with another body. Within the form of Contact Improvisation we will explore how this
architecture communicates different messages depending on your tissue organization. We'll start with
practicing a conscious shift of weight in solo, finding the simplicity and subtly of shifting weight through our
bodies. As we continue with sensing our partners limbs as an extension of our own, we will develop our
awareness of what our contact communicates, and practice listening skills to respond to what is being
offered, as we connect with our partner through the senses of touch, sight, sound, balance and rhythm.
architecture communicates different messages depending on your tissue organization. We'll start with
practicing a conscious shift of weight in solo, finding the simplicity and subtly of shifting weight through our
bodies. As we continue with sensing our partners limbs as an extension of our own, we will develop our
awareness of what our contact communicates, and practice listening skills to respond to what is being
offered, as we connect with our partner through the senses of touch, sight, sound, balance and rhythm.