Anabella Lenzu / DanceDrama

Summer Intensive Workshop

June 11 -15th, 2012

@ Peridance Capezio Center, NYC

1 week of  Intensive Dance with final performance

One week workshop that focuses on shaping, developing and broadening your potential as a dancer/ performer with an emphasis on performance skills, a place and time where Dance and Drama converge.

This workshop is intended for serious students who wish to turn their body into a sensitive, vibrating instrument of expression.

AL/DD offers the opportunity to dancers from all over the world at any stage of their career the opportunity to study & perform in New York in a supportive & creative environment. Personal attention given to each student.

This workshop explores the principle:

 Motion Creates Emotion /Emotion Creates Motion, and emphasizes the use of imagination, interpretation and body coordination/control.

The Summer Intensive program offers: 2 daily classes

Monday, Wednesday, Friday: 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM

Tuesday, Thursday: 11:30 AM - 2:30 PM

The first 1.5 hours of each day will be Technique (drop- ins permitted) and the second 1.5 hours of each day will be Repertory (no drop-ins permitted).

The intensive culminates with 1 informal performance where the participants perform the learned repertory from DanceDrama on Friday, June 15th at Peridance Capezio Center.

Attention enrollment is limited!!

TO REGISTER CLICK HERE!

What is Dance Drama?

For Doris Humphrey, innovator of American Modern Dance, Dance Drama "was rhythmic, it told a story, the body movements were dramatic, not realistic, it had an objective, an audience."  From this history, I am creating a vocabulary of meaningful movement that springs directly from emotions with visceral strength.

I organize layers of character driven drama, and break apart quotidian social gestures.

Humphrey understood that, "Dance Drama began at the moment when the first man bridged the separated 'I' and 'you' with 'tell'," inventing "the first movements for telling a memory."  Derived from our most basic impulses, my dances use this principle to build the relationships between the individual and society: communication, identity, memory and spirituality, the relationship between people and their environment, the struggle for woman's identity and role in society, and to discover the nobility of the body as a temple for our mind, soul and heart.

http://www.AnabellaLenzu.com