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Ruth Grauert at Bearnstow
Summer 2007 |
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Mat Pilates, Improvisation, and Critique
Taught by Ruth Grauert and Melody Ward
July 13–18, 2008
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| Sound in your ears, color in your eyes, stirring in the marrow of your bones, you fly. Deep in the center of your brain something is newborn. You have journeyed to a place that now is part of you. Art has touched you, and you will not return to what you were yesterday. | |
WRITING ON DANCE (Grauert)
Focusing on the craft of writing about dance, this course seeks to sharpen the eye and the connection between what is seen and the ability to articulate. Intended for both writers and dancers, the workshop provides a tool for teachers, choreographers, and critics.
PILATES (Ward)
Of Pilates Melody Ward says, “At the Pilates studio of Gayla Zukevich I found for myself a balance of stretch and strength that has made my dancing clearer and bolder; I have incorporated this somatic practice in my teaching. The clear and functional exercises that flow into one another are focused on efficiency of exercise and how it can create a sense of balance and functionality.”
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THE WORKSHOP CLASS PLAN: We start the day with a Mat Pilates warm-up, followed by class improvisation, study showing, critique reading and discussion. After lunch the group disperses for recreation, composing studies, viewing DVD's, writing critiques, and for individual Pilates sessions.
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RUTH E. GRAUERT holds a B.A. from Ursinus, 1939, and an M.A. from Columbia, 1941. She studied with Holm, Graham, Nikolais, Sokolow, Kashmann, Stewart, and Weidman. She was a member Nikolais Hartford Company, 1942–43; assistant to Nikolais, 1948–1988; stage director for Murray Louis, 1953–1970; lighting designer and stage manager for Phyllis Lamhut, Beverly Blossom, and others, 1948 on; and she taught lighting at the Nik/Lou lab, 1948–1995. She is founder and director of Bearnstow, a summer arts place, from 1946 to present; and has authored numerous articles on general aesthetics, staging, lighting, and Alwin Nikolais. She writes concert and book critiques and poetry. Ruth Grauert is the recipient of the 2005 Martha Hill Lifetime Achievement Award. See her Web site, BearnstowJournal.org.
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Melody Ruffin Ward — Pilates Warm-up |
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MELODY RUFFIN WARD is an associate professor in the Department of Music, Theatre, and Dance at Rhode Island College in Providence, Rhode Island. Having spent two decades of her life dancing and working with a myriad of wonderful artists and making her own work along the eastern seaboard, Ward has taught and been a guest artist in colleges and universities. A graduate of Spelman College with a B.A. in English and education, she graduated magna cum laude and went on the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where she received her M.F.A. in choreography and performance, studying both the Cunningham and Limon techniques.
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