Hi Class -

Your assignment this week is to watch these THREE videos (less than 20 minutes).  I have included interviews with my great teacher Deborah Hay and two other dance artists I admire, Meg Stuart and Simone Forti.  Each of these women discuss important ideas about improvisation and performance that really resonate with what we are working on in class.  After you've watched these videos (do it sooner rather than later) your second assignment is to pay attention to the world around you.  Listen. See. Notice. Let go and notice something else.  Put your ipod and iphone away and give the world your attention.  Pay attention to the way the world around you moves and the way you move within the world around you.  You can do this assignment anywhere and everywhere.  As you walk to and from class, on the bus, at the store, while you brush your teeth...we'll talk/play with these ideas in class on Monday.  Bring your sneakers!!!