Location: Los Angeles CA
Duration: Multiple Days
First Day : Oct 26, 2015
Last Day: Oct 31, 2015
DANCERS, MENTORS & TEACHERS
Are you interested in learning how to translate what you know about the creativity and the expressiveness of the body to impact positive change in people’s lives?
Do you want to learn how to utilize dance improvisation to build community, nurture leaders and embody people?
Join Turning the Wheel for a week of immersive learning and see if our certification program is right for you. Over the course of our week at Alonzo CDS we will be creating a improvisational dance performance. The week culminates in an introductory training in “The Body Now”, A Holistic Journey for Personal Expansion and Community Transformation.
The Body Now will offer you tools to move with all ages and abilities as a means to teach, connect and collaborate based on participant’s stories. The Body Now is a mentor based, movement improvisation workshop that enhance and enliven your personal movement practice
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Join Alana Shaw and her team of Body Now Facilitators for this half day workshop.
Alana is an inspiring and empowering guide and Founder of the national non profit dance/theater company, Turning the Wheel, serving thousands of youth and their mentors across the US and in Canada for over 25 years.
Live musical accompaniment with multi instrumentalist Perry Smith.
Sat, Oct 31st, 10:30 am – 1:30 pm. $25 for students (sliding scale available)
Blackbird Dance Studio, 305 N Fairfax Ave Los Angeles, California 90036
Contact LA Program Director Daley Ackerman to register: daley.ackerman@turningthewheel.org or 818.472.2632
Time Details
M-F 1:50 - 2:50 at Richard Alonzo CDS.
Workshop on Sat, Oct 31st, 10:30 am - 1:30 pm.
Must attend all sessions
Tags: art, at-risk youth, education, mentoring, youth
Contact Person: Daley Ackerman
Contact Email: daley@turningthewheel.org
Contact Phone Number: 8184722632
Organization: Turning the Wheel Productions