Saturdays
12:15-2 PM
September 8-October 27
*No class October 20
Drop-ins welcome. ODC class cards accepted or pay a $15 drop-in fee per class.
Kinaesthetic Readiness
The goal of the class is to understand how we can arrive at and maintain a kinaesthetic readiness, not only for movement, but also for bearing weight through using the release of the joints to re-align our structures between any two (or more) points of contact as soon as they emerge. We will explore the ways our bodies read gravity, momentum and tone, and how we can use that awareness in our dance practice, alone and with others. We will move from solos to duets to trios, building our readiness to welcome surprise and disorientation in the three-dimensional spherical space.
Ronja Ver is a dancer and dance maker, a teacher, a mother, an activist, and a lifetime student of performance as meaning-making. Their choreographic work addresses current issues through movement and sound, technical and unpolished, often working with extreme physical states to invite the audience into a sensory, nonverbal place of relating. They have worked in Europe and in the United States, most recently with Nancy Stark Smith and Mike Vargas in Seattle and New York City, and Avy K Productions, Sara Shelton Mann, Risa Jaroslow and Scott Wells in the SF Bay Area. Previous posts include the National Theater of Finland and Riitta Vainio Dance Company, and Ver is proud to be featured on Steve Paxton’s dvd Material for the Spine. Ver is co-organizer of the West Coast Contact Improvisation Jam and co-founder of the Finnish CI festival Skiing On Skin. Ver holds an MFA in Dance from Hollins University/ADF.