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Hello folks,
idioSomatics, our free weekly contemporary dance class for professionals, is back and is now happening at the Community Education Center (3500 Lancaster Avenue) in West Philly. Fridays from 10am to noon!!! This time around, we are trying something a little different. Every three or four weeks, we begin a new session in which the focus will be more specific than it has been in the past. For example, we might have idioSomatics: Light as a Feather in which, for three weeks, we focus on movement and performance qualities that have a weightless, fleeting nature. Or, we might have idioSomatics: Break That Back for four weeks in which we focus on bombastic, isolated movement qualities that that draw relationships to club culture. You can keep track of the series by adding idioSomatics into your Google Calendar (click here).
For the next three weeks, Shannon Murphy is teaching idioSomatics and we are testing our a new name: idioSomatics: POST-JAZZ
Our question to you – What do you think you would find in a POST-JAZZ class?
Hey IdioSomatics!
I love your questions. Could a post-jazz class be “jazz” in the way that it engages the rhythmicity of swing, syncopation, as well as riffing improvisation with a continual attention to technical skill, and “post” in the way that it includes a larger array of movement vocabulary to be experimented with that could include more pedestrian qualities. Also “post” implies many point of views so it would be fascinating to learn how “jazz” has been interpreted over time.
Love to you thinkermovers
Sarah
Hmmm, oh idiosyncrazy. you all always know how to get my brain moving. when I hear “post-jazz” for some reason i see myself sitting in a room where someone freestyles on a trumpet while a piano plays along. post-jazz might just be jazz for folks who stumbled upon jazz accidentally in the later years of their youth. it’s jazz, reinterpreted, as is said above. i like that.
xoxo
risha
ps: keep the questions coming!
I have the slightest idea what a POST-JAZZ class is. It sounds scary to me. I am interested to see what you guys have cooking up.
Post – what comes next, a building upon a previous generation’s ideas
Jazz – rhythmic percussive movement and music