The Poetic Body:

Creating New Dance Theater Through Poetry
with Jennifer Hicks.

The Poetic Body is a movement laboratory for those interested in using poetic text to inspire movement and create dance. Topics of exploration include; personal memory, embodying imagery, awareness training, translating poetry to movement and choreography.  We will explore pure kinesthetic joy of moving and finding connection to space, self, others well as finding a repeatable form in relationship to text. We will let the spirit of the poem speak to us and create our movement vocabulary. Students will work as a group, solo and in partners. Please bring a short piece of poetry you would like to work with.

Jennifer Hicks has been teaching movement, lecturing, creating original theatre for over 25 years. She received her MFA from Naropa University in Contemporary Performance, her BFA from Tufts University and Degree in Fine Arts from The School  of the Museum of Fine Arts, in Boston and where she was also a winner of the prestigious Traveling Scholars Award. She is a certified Yoga Instructor with the National Yoga Alliance, Shintaido Instructor and TranceDance Facilitator. She has been studying Butoh since the early 1990's and is a regular dancer with Katsura Kans International Dance Company. Ms. Hicks is also director of CHIMERAlab Dance Theatre and a member of Mobius Artist Collective in Boston.

Western Massachusetts Moving Arts Festival at Earthdance, August 6 - 8 with Angie Hauser, Martin Keogh, and Leigh Evans, Cynthia McLaughlin, Eric Huther, Felice Wolfzahn, Heather Kuhn, Jennifer Hicks, John Leo, Melinda Buckwalter & Others

Contact Improvisation, Performance Improvisation, Contemporary Butoh plus Action Theater, Site Specific improvisation, Voice, Clowning, Somatic forms, and much more!

This festival has something to offer everyone: a chance to study a variety of improvisational dance and theater forms intensively, with local and national teachers. If you've never been to Earthdance before, WMMAF is a great introduction. Morning intensives are an opportunity for deep study, while the afternoon schedule offers a multiplicity of classes to explore. Evening events include a performance by festival faculty and a jam with live music. Faculty will include: contact improvisation with Martin Keogh, performance improvisation with Angie Hauser, contemporary Butoh with Leigh Evans, and more. For a full list of classes with descriptions and faculty bios, please see http://earthdance.net/festival10.htm.

Come for the whole festival, or for an individual class or event! Arrival: Thursday evening, August 5, departure Sunday afternoon August 8. While you are here, enjoy Earthdance's hiking trails, spring fed pond, and delicious food.

DWELL with Chris Aiken & Angie Hauser The MAF is also a part of a longer week of activities featuring DWELL with Chris & Angie.  Register for both DWELL and the WMMAF and receive a $100 discount.