Category Archives: the dance

Nov11

dancing with Pony

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Me holding forth about horse dancing after the performance.

Sarah Hollis, owner of Tintatgel Enterprises, with her Pony.

DeAnna Pellecchia and Pony.

Ingrid Schatz with Pony.

Pony makes us all look good.  Photographer Jeffrey Anderson makes us look even better.  Pony and
Sarah have been dancing with us for nearly seven years, and Jeff has been shooting us for that many years as well.  It is the first time that we have all made an appearance at Equine Affaire in West Springfield, MA.  We were not in the extravaganza called the Phantasia (!) but doing small, informal demonstrations near Tintagel’s gorgeous set up in C Barn.  We will all be back next year, so mark your calendars!

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Nov8

Equine Affaire: tomorrow!

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I will be joining Sarah Hollis of Tintagel Andalusians and her beautiful horses at Equine Affaire in West Springfield, MA all day tomorrow.  Sarah and her horse, Escorial, will be doing informal demonstrations of our dancing with horses work with dancers DeAnna Pellecchia and Ingrid Schatz throughout the day.

I will be available to talk about Embodied Horsemanship and you can schedule a private 15-minute session with me for either Tellington TTouch or Riding Wide Awake (on a physio ball).

We will be in C Barn all day, so please stop by!

Nov1

wild play

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I am really excited about teaching this workshop.  For one thing, I love the Boston Dance community.  I have deep, old roots in Boston, and every time I go back there, I am reminded of how much that city and those dancers and audiences have given me, and how much of myself I poured into the community.

This workshop is a chance for me to play with some of the brightest dancers and choreographers around and to bring some of the things that excite me about dance and dance-making home.  I have spent my evenings up here in New Hampshire brainstorming, and I have a delicious couple of afternoons planned.

One of my great inspirations was the brilliant Bessie Schonberg, and I still have notes from the workshops and residencies that I did with her as mentor.  Another is the great Robert Dunn, and I have those notes too.  Both of them took me out into the deepest creative waters and let me find my own strokes, my own way of diving and floating.  I thank them all the time.

So dancers, choreographers, directors, improvisers, join me in Cambridge!

Oct22

a reminder: wild play workshop on 12/8

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Re-scheduled!!!!!

 

December 8

2:30-5 pm

$20

The Dance Complex

536 Massachusetts Avenue

Cambridge, MA

WILD PLAY is a workshop for dancers and choreographers interested in deepening and expanding their dancemaking practice. This workshop includes theater and dance improvisation, Laban’s effort shape materials, and formal choreographic ideas, as well as Paula’s experience working with Bessie Schonberg, Robert Dunn and Eiko & Koma.

The workshop includes:

  • taking improvisation into form
  • building a score
  • expanding movement and spatial dynamics
  • finding and developing personal imagery
  • translating concept and image into movement
  • developing clear intention and motivation
  • creating an electric group dynamic
  • playing with sound and text
  • building movement and spatial dynamics

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    to register:  deannapellecchia@comcast.net