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Axis Aerial Dance Intensive

July 14 thru July 18,  2008

Monday thru Friday

$425 full workshop (Early Bird Rate)

or see rates for individual classes

Taught by Miranda Janeschild  & Jenna Garcia Conners

Veterans Memorial Building,

846 Front St., Santa Cruz  CA

Class Information: 831-234-4870

Send registration to: 10851 Empire Grade,

Santa Cruz, CA  95060

The Axis Aerial Dance Intensive is designed as a whole for individuals interested in accelerating their learning in a concentrated and supportive setting. Those who participate in the whole workshop will learn to access inertia and momentum on the floor with Axis Syllabus™ then apply these skills in the air with aerial apparatus. The order of classes is fundamental to developing body awareness and new movement skills in a safe yet challenging direction. Low flying and high flying aerial apparatus will be taught.  All class sizes are limited and pre-registration is highly recommended.  The Axis Aerial Dance Intensive is open to anyone from ages 16 years to adult.

Class Descriptions

Axis Syllabus Week Long Workshop*

9:00 - 10:30 a.m. Mon-Fri

$50

Taught by Miranda Janeschild,

Certified Axis Syllabus Instructor

The day starts off with a morning of Axis Syllabus. Based on the work of Frey Faust, this floor dance will teach the magic of using proximal masses to harness and distribute momentum to one’s own dancing advantage. Dancers will explore the functional support of the skeleton to receive and channel weight with pleasure and safely. You will also discover the joy of undulations in movement to release and coordinate the musculo-skeletal system while

dancing your heart out.   

Rope & Harness/ Hammock:

Solo & Partner Aerial Dancing

10:45 - 12:30 Mon - Fri

$175

Students will learn safety checks, proper use of ropes, carabineers, gri-gris and other rigging equipment.  The student will explore low flying dances with the use of rope & harness and hammocks.   All will develop an understanding of pendulum and circular forces of movement while beginning to apply skills to solo aerial dances.  After learning solo dances, participants will learn partner choreography and make aerial dances higher in the air.  Please note that all participants are expected to take the Axis Syllabus dance class prior to this class.

Web & Tissu Class (Beginning/ Intermediate)

1:30-3:30 Mon & Tues

$100

You will develop flexibility, strength and coordination throughout the body while learning a range of climbs, footholds and body wraps.  Use of undulations, side bending and circular swings are incorporated in the teaching approach.  Beginning Web skills and Beginning to Intermediate Tissu skills are taught.  The class uses individual programs for participants.  Basic to more advanced drops are included for those who are ready.

Aerial Performance Arts

1:30-3:30 Wed - Fri

$150

Back by popular demand! This class is an opportunity to apply all the skills learned in the Axis Aerial Intensive by creating a solo or duet dance.  The dancer will be guided through a creative process to develop choreography and dances.  Issues of personal meaning, cultural values and lived experiences will inform the work.  The dancer chooses an aerial apparatus to create a dance with. Open only to participants of the Axis Aerial Intensive or prior aerial dance experience required.

 

Registration Form

Kid's Axis Aerial

Summer Camp Class:

Beginning

Axis Aerial Dance

July 21 thru 25,  2008

Monday thru Friday

9:00-11:30 a.m.

Ages 8 thru 15

Cost: $200

Taught by Miranda Janeschild  & Jenna Garcia Conners

Veterans Memorial Building,

846 Front St., Santa Cruz CA

Class Information: 831-234-4870

Send registration to: 10851 Empire Grade,

Santa Cruz, CA  95060

Beginning Axis Syllabus and Aerial Skills will be explored. Class will begin with fun movement games that use the principles of Axis Syllabus to warm up and bring body awareness to the student prior learning to use aerial apparatus.   All kids will be exposed to and learn basic skills on the cloth tube, spanish web and tissu.  Age limits are strictly en  forced for safety and learning of the group.

Intermediate

Axis Aerial Dance

Tissu & Web

July 21 thru July 25,  2008

Monday thru Friday

1:00-3:30

Ages 8 thru 15

Cost: $200

 

Taught by Miranda Janeschild  & Jenna Garcia Conners

Veterans Memorial Building,

846 Front St., Santa Cruz CA

Class Information: 831-234-4870

Send registration to: 10851 Empire Grade,

Santa Cruz, CA  95060

Participants must have prior experience and enter at

permission of the instructor.

Class will begin with fun movement games that use the principles of Axis Syllabus to warm up and bring body awareness to the student prior to learning aerial tissu and web.   Participants will learn the value of skeletal and muscle support within the apparatus to inform transitions for speed control, swings, and side bending.  This class prepares the participant for performance quality work where he or she will develop sequences to share with the class and be shown on the last day of camp.

The cost of the each session is $200 for early bird rate and $235 if received on or after July 8, 2008.

Kids Registration Form

*Early Bird registration is paid in full and received by July 1, 2008 for adults and July 7, 2008 for kids.  All payments are non-refundable. You will receive an e-mail confirmation once your registration has been received. Early Bird registration has priority spots in workshop. For more information on the Santa Cruz Axis Aerial Dance Intensive, registration or the  scholarships available contact: info@mirandacompany.com or 831-234-4870. For information on Axis Syllabus-ump http://www.axissyllabus.com.

Please be prepared to fill out liability and insurance information forms on the first day. 

It is recommended to come 15 minutes before class.

 

* Axis Syllabus -universal motor principles (AS-ump), based on the work of Frey Faust, is a movement training and weight distribution method of learning to dance and can be applied to other forms of physical training.   AS-ump is derived from a sound analysis of anatomical parameters and physiodynamics with the  eventual outcome as an

exhilarating inner experience of flight, ease and joy while dancing.

For more information regarding Axis Syllabus go to: www.axissyllabus.com

 

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