Cultivating the Expressive Body with Jeremy Hahn

Class #2700.266 Saturday 8/20, 11am-1pm
Cost: $5
Register at the link below or call 310.458.2239.

http://apm.activecommunities.com/santamonicarecreation/Activity_Search/53697

Through an investigative process that draws upon meditation, visualization, and improvisation, we expand our creative capacities, move our bodies, encounter each other and cultivate a sense of play. All levels of participants who are interested in exploring expressive movement are welcome. This session features live musical collaboration with Eric Pham. After moving we will rest, journal, and share in a closing circle with tea. Please bring a yoga mat, pillow, and blanket to build a nest with.

Interdisciplinary movement artist Jeremy Hahn, M.F.A. 500hr RYT, is an active choreographer, performer, yoga instructor and educator of dance and movement improvisation based in Los Angeles. He holds an MFA in Dance from California State University, Long Beach and is currently on faculty teaching dance at Cal Poly Pomona and Santa Ana College. As an award-winning choreographer and performer he creates works of contemporary dance theatre, site-specific interactive performance, and performance art. Notably, he has performed in works by Bill T. Jones, Doug Varone and David Dorfman and had the pleasure of working with Loretta Livingston and Dancers, Lucent Dossier Experience, The Industry and many others. He is a founding member of Efflorescence, a Los Angeles based performance collective who is dedicated to the collaborative process, social engagement and the creation of an interdisciplinary arts event: PRISM. Hahn possesses considerable experience and knowledge inspiring performing artists and contributing to the field of dance through his teaching, research, and performance.

Eric Pham is a performing composer who received his Bachelor's Degree in Music Production from Cal Poly Pomona, his Master of Music in Composition from CSULB's Bob Cole Conservatory of Music, and is currently working toward his DMA in Composition at USC's Thornton School of Music. With an eclectic career thus far--having played in groups ranging from rock bands to classical ensembles, engineered and produced albums from both Pop and Art genres, and received an education by apprenticeship under renowned record producers and through graduate studies--Eric has infiltrated, and been influenced by, both Popular Music and Art Music. With his current works, Eric draws upon all of these influences to blur the lines that divide the two realms.

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