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Jamming at Mather Dance Center

Submitted by Colleen Clark on Sun, 01/21/2007 - 18:40.

 

 

So today we had our monthly Contact Improvisation jam at Mather Dance Center at CWRU, and Larry Muha & I were the only 2 to show up, which has pretty much been the status quo for awhile now.

Contact is a form that allows the dancer to truly be who/what/how s/he is and be it with others.  We lay on the floor, breathe, allowing the weights of our bodies fall into gravity, releasing tension and tightness into the floor.  And the floor at Mather Dance is one of the most receiving and beautiful floors in the universe to do that.  So many dancing moments, hours, days, weeks, months and years of dancing have gone into the woodgrain that the floor itself is a magnificent partner.

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Dinner at Martha & Jeff's

Submitted by Colleen Clark on Sat, 01/20/2007 - 00:15.

 I just ate a wonderful dinner at Martha & Jeff's, and Jeff insisted that I log on to RealNeo to blog about dance in Cleve and around the country.

I got to brag about performances I've done in Northeast Ohio and elsewhere costumed in nothing but mud or shrink wrap, and wax rhapsodic about the history of rock n roll dancing and how I got to twist w/Chubby Checker in Columbus OH back in 1982...

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