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Master Classes with University of Iowa Professor Jennifer Kayle

COMPOSITIONAL IMPROVISATION
Open to all levels of experience: This class will begin with solo
investigations grounded in turning one's attention to the inner sensory and imaginal landscape.  Exercises act as entrance points to fresh perceptions and unusual movement choices.  Solo research will support moving into complex relationships
with other dancers, (and the space, and the music), and will provoke development of one's own compositional point-of-view.  Saturday, January 6th  9:30-11

MODERN TECHNIQUE
This class treats technique practice as a place of research and discovery.  Moving developmentally from floor to standing, students are asked to draw their own connections between inner sensing and outer clarity.  Long phrases, inversions, and other movement challenges are meant to provoke questions regarding efficiency and flow. Improved awareness will be considered both an end in itself, and a vehicle toward long-term, self-directed transformation of one's individual technique.  Tuesday, January 9th, 5:30-7 pm

Jennifer Kayle is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Iowa.  She began her movement education as a competitive gymnast and diver. Her studies in concert dance began at Middlebury College where she earned her B.A. in Dance/Sociology.  After receiving her M.F.A. from Smith College, she taught and choreographed at Amherst, Hampshire, U.Mass, Keene State, and Muhlenberg Colleges, and presented work across New England and in New York City. Her work has been selected for RDA and ACDF Regional & National Gala concerts, and has been supported by commissions and grants including the NEA/CBE.  In addition to presenting 11 new dances at University of Iowa (2004-2006),  Jennifer's work has appeared in the Minnesota Fringe Festival (MN), Big Range Dance Festival (TX), Luther College (IA), and will be appearing this year on stages in Iowa, Massachusetts, Arizona, and St. Petersburg, Russia.  As an independent dancer, she has enjoyed performing in national and historic venues including St. Mark's Church (NYC), Judson Church (NYC), Merce Cunningham Studio (NYC), Joyce Soho (NYC), Boston Moves, Jacob's Pillow (MA), The Dance Place (D.C.), and Bates Dance Festival Emerging Choreographers (ME). In addition, Jennifer is a founding member of The Architects, an improvising collective of dancers and musicians (www.architectsdance.org).

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