All workshops will take place at Evolved Movement Arts, located at 4005 9 Street SE, Calgary AB.
The Schedule
Friday, April 17
7:00-9:00pm: TEK ATTACK!!! CLASS OF DUM. THE OL’ CLANGALANG.
Saturday, April 18
10:00am – 1:00pm: Rembetika… A Primer & Combinations Class
1:45 – 3:45pm: Shiny New Combinations
Evening: the show!
Sunday, April 19
10:00am – 1:00pm: Latest Greatest, Mardi’s Choice Choreography
1:45-3:45pm: Slowly……New Sentences.
Workshop Descriptions
TEK ATTACK!!! CLASS OF DUM. THE OL’ CLANGALANG.
Oh where have the days of blue fingertips and bleeding eardrums gone? Mardi presents a pocketful of percussive sentences and movement to go with em.
Rembetika… A Primer & Combinations Class
Rembetika (rebetiko, rembetiko), often dubbed as the Greek blues, is an amalgamation of Eastern Mediterranean musical styles. Considered by many to have seen its heyday in the 1930s, the music is representative of an urban marginalized culture and often embodies themes of immigration, violence, addiction, love and sorrow. This class includes a brief discussion of the genre and a little dancin’ round to a few of Mardi’s favorites.
Shiny New Combinations
Here is a small collection of new combinations focusing on stylization and nuance in the extremities, and intuitive transition in movement.
Latest Greatest, Mardi’s Choice Choreography
Just like it sounds, we’re learning a new piece. Hooray! Movement will be presented in sentences, thoroughly broken down and drilled, while careful attention will be given to the hows and whys and the smaller details in the dance. Side note: When I teach a choreography class, it is my intention not to simply feed you a dance that you take home and repeat on your stage (though that’s certainly one option), but that you (1.) may pick up a few movements/sentences of movements/transitions that resonate with you, and (2.) that you may gain some insight as to how I like to build a dance; that is how I see the music and illustrate it in movement.
Slowly……New Sentences.
Presenting a grouping of furling, rolling, sultry movements for the slow dances. Why, it’s Mardi’s favorite thing to do. Long and drawn, undulating and curving, movements will be drilled and executed in beautiful progression.
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