Klaus Lucka, Photographer

INAUGURAL SUMMER INTENSIVE 2012

Download your application today.

"Shen Wei's dancers are a breed apart: lissome, precise, expressive-and totally at one
with a choreographic vision that makes philosophical reflections into remarkable, affecting dance."
FIVE STARS

Mary Brennan, The Herald, Scotland

New York City
Mon, July 30 - Sat, August 11
Barnard College
Department of Dance

Open to all professional and pre-professional dancers, age 18 and older.


ABOUT

During the past decade, Shen Wei has developed a dance technique with which he trains all of his dancers. Known as Natural Body Development, the technique has served as a signature element of the choreographic movement in his works since the company’s inception.

This is a unique opportunity to study intimately with the company members of Shen Wei Dance Arts in the world’s dance capital, New York City. The intensive provides an informed pathway for opening the body and mind to new ways of approaching dance.

"Shen Wei's reinvention of the dance vocabulary... flows from any point in his dancers' bodies to any other,
bypassing every convention of dance-as-steps or choreography as a predominantly vertical statement."

-Los Angeles Times

CLASSES WILL INCLUDE

TECHNIQUE
An introduction to Shen Wei’s Natural Body Development technique. Through the detailed investigation of movement ideas, classes will explore breath, internal energy, momentum, rotation and flow.

REPERTORY
Learn excerpts from selected company repertory. Through individual and collective movement research, each dancer will have a chance to work on group and solo material within the repertory works.

IMPROVISATION/CONCEPTS
Discover how Shen Wei’s background in Chinese Opera and visual art inform his process. Explore compositional and movement ideas in relationship to other art forms.

PARTNERING
Partnering skills will be honed to develop proficiency in both group work and intimate scenarios.

BODYWORK
Classes will focus on centering the mind and preparing the body for a rigorous day of work, while providing knowledge for future self-care and injury prevention.

SPACE IS LIMITED. APPLY TODAY.

Tuition: $725 (including $25 non-refundable application fee)
July 10, 2012 - $25 fee and application due.
July 20, 2012 - $700 remaining tuition due.

Download your application here.

Application materials can be submitted to:

Megan@shenweidancearts.org

or

SHEN WEI DANCE ARTS
Summer Intensive
135 W 29th St, Suite 1100
New York, NY 10001

Classes will be held 10am-6pm, six days a week at:

BARNARD COLLEGE
Department of Dance
310 Barnard Hall
3009 Broadway
New York, NY 10027


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New York City Housing Options
Info: Megan Thornburg at Megan@shenweidancearts.org

Shen Wei Dance Arts Summer Intensive 2012 is presented in partnership with Barnard College.

PHOTO CREDITS:
Photo 1: Klaus Lucka
Photo 2: Whitney Browne
Photo 3: Klaus Lucka

Through the detailed investigation of moving ideas, students in Shen Wei Dance Art’s Natural Body Development Technique Classes explore breath, internal energy, center shifting, momentum, spirals, rotations, and flow. The technique focuses on providing an informed pathway for opening the body and mind to new ways to approach dance.

Alex Pines, Photographer

Dance classes, master classes and choreography training are tailored for specific audiences. Emphasis is on Shen Wei’s unique Natural Body Development Technique and theory. Introduction to Natural Body Technique can be taught in a Master Class setting: Through the detailed investigation of moving ideas, the class explores breath, internal energy, center-shifting, momentum, spirals, rotations and flow. The focus is to provide an informed pathway for opening the body and mind to new ways of approaching dance. Working within schools and in collaboration with core curricula, the company has created an additional eight themes to integrate dance with a variety of disciplines.

- Finding Color
- Developing Dance Literacy
- Exploring Chinese Opera and Modern Dance in Dialogue: Past Meets Present to Create Future
- Community and Culture
- Anatomy, Music, and Architecture
- Create a Personal Movement Philosophy
- Recreating a Professional Rehearsal
- Careers in Dance: Performance, Production, and Administration

For more information on education outreach, send an email to education@shenweidancearts.org or call us at (212) 962-1113.

Alex Pines, Photographer