low-flying trapeze dance with julie ludwick
in Brooklyn

Low-flying trapeze dance workshops are offered at the Soundance Studio in Williamsburg Brooklyn on Sunday Afternoons from 4:30-6:30 PM. These workshops are geared for adults of all levels who are physically inclined.

scholarship audition  Once each year Fly-by-Night offers scholarships for women and men of color. Those who receive scholarships are expected to attend the Sunday class on a regular basis.  Check back in fall 2010 for our next audition date.

SPRING WORKSHOPS  Sunday Afternoons 4:30-6:30 PM

April 11, 18 and 25  Three 2-hour classes that featuring individual explorations to prepare students for deeper explorations in tapeze-dance.  Basic skills are introduced and further explored through improvisation.  Classes will integrate Skinner Releasing Technique to increase kinesthetic and performance awareness.                                                                                          Workshop Fee:  
$50 (if paid by March 28) 
$65 (if paid the first day of class)

May 2 - June 27 (no class May 16 or 30)  Seven 2-hour classes.  This workshop covers intermediate to advanced individual skills and deepens the explorations of the introductory work.  Students need to have taken at least one introductory workshop before registering.  All classes incorporate Skinner Releasing Technique, a meditative dance technique that uses images from nature. These images can aid in letting go of tension and help free the body for creative impulses. 
Workshop fee:
$115 (if paid by April 11)
$130 (if $70 non-refundable deposit is paid by April 18 with balance due May 2)
$155 (if paid on the first day of class)

Location: All of the above classes are at Soundance Studio in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, 281 N. 7th St., 2nd Floor. Ring Buzzer #7 Subway Directions: L Train to Bedford,(1 stop in from Manhattan) walk east down 7th St. towards the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway

Mail-in Registration Form   For Paypal Link Information, email julie@flybynightdance.org

All Workshops are aimed to increase students' trapeze-dance vocabularies through discovery of the dance in between tricks. Basic hangs and skills are introduced with an emphasis on proper body mechanics. These moves are then explored in improvisational structures. All classes incorporate Skinner Releasing Technique, a meditative dance technique that uses images from nature. These images can aid in letting go of tension and help free the body for creative impulses.

For more info call 212-304-3791 or write Fly-by-Night

low-flying trapeze dance with julie ludwick
in Manhattan

Low-flying trapeze dance workshops are offered at JCC Manhattan on the Upper West Side. This workshop is geared for adults of all levels.

Ten classes introducing trapeze-dance

Sunday Afternoons 1:30-2:45 PM
THE CURRENT JCC WORKSHOP RUNS THROUGH April 11, 2010
THE NEXT WORKSHOP BEGINS April 18
and RUNS THROUGH June 27, 2010

Workshop fees: $180 JCC members /$210 non-members
Individual Sessions $20/$25

Location: All of the above classes are at JCC Manhattan, 76th Street & Amsterdam, 4th Floor Fitness Studio

For further info call 646 505 5708 or register online at www.jccmanhattan.org

More about Julie Ludwick

All Workshops are aimed to increase students' trapeze-dance vocabularies through discovery of the dance in between tricks. Basic hangs and skills are introduced with an emphasis on proper body mechanics. These moves are then explored in improvisational structures. All classes incorporate Skinner Releasing Technique, a meditative dance technique that uses images from nature. These images can aid in letting go of tension and help free the body for creative impulses.

For more info call 212-304-3791 or write Fly-by-Night

skinner releasing technique classes

Ludwick is a ceRtified teacher of Skinner Releasing Technique (SRT) and aspects of the technique inform all of her teaching. SRT is an alternative improvisational technique that incorporates movement, touch and verbal imagery to allow students to let go of tension and release their creativity. It improves students' physical awareness and alignment, increases their range of motion and movement vocabulary, and gives them a basis from which to understand and gain from other alternative techniques such as yoga, Alexander Technique, Feldenkrais Technique and somatics. For further information on the technique see www.skinnerreleasing.com

modern dance classes

Ludwick teaches traditional modern dance with an emphasis on dropping the center of weight and movement that takes students off their vertical center to explore multiple spatial planes and levels. She incorporates her knowledge of Skinner Releasing Technique to enhance their understanding of proper alignment and performance presence.

improvisation classes

Ludwick has designed and taught college courses in Improvisation for both 2 and 4-year colleges as well as preprofessionals at private studios and summer dance programs. Students learn how to use improvisation to get in touch with their own movement impulses and to foster new movement vocabulary. Simple improvisation scores are introduced and explored through performance, viewing, and discussion as they gain in complexity. Discussions emphasize stating what the students see and how that connects with the movement score.

composition classes

Ludwick applies her training with Bessie Schoenberg, Nita Little, and Martha Meyers to her approach to composition. Students explore basic tools (theme and variation, time and music, space and effort) and apply them to short movement studies. They observe one another and learn how to discuss what they see. These classes often involve some aspects of improvisation in the beginning depending on the students' experience.