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MEI-BE WHATever is available for the following activities listed below. For information please contact: info@MeiBeWhatever.com

Event Choreography and Performance
Performance and Teaching Residencies
Community Outreach
Master Classes
Workshops

 

Creative outreach HISTORY

CityActivators, NYC Performance & Choreography Commissions
– The Lord Group Advertising
– J P Morgan Chase Holiday Festival
PIFA Gala at Kimmer Center
ArtsConnection, NYC Workshops, and Community Outreach
US Dept of Education: Arts In Education Model Development and Dissemination
– Developing English Language Literacy through the Arts (DELLTA)
– Common Core and the Arts
National Dance Institute, NYC Master Classes for young professional
Professional development for teaching artists.
Barefoot Dance Center, NY Master Classes for young professional
Living Dance Studio
Beijing Dance LDTX, China
Composition/Improvisation workshop
Master Classes for professional dancers
ASWARA
RImbun Dahan
TARI Festival
The Music Professionals Academy, Malaysia
International exchange, lecture demonstration and process showing
Artist talk and exchange
Master Classes for professional dancers
Master classes and collaboration with young professionals
Patravadi Theater
Wondering Moon Theater, Thailand
Artist talk and exchange
Dance Film Workshop
Master Classes for professional dancers
Sesc Pompeia, Brazil Master Classes for professional dancers.
IFFC, Italy Master Classes for professional dancers.
Festival de la Cite, Switzerland Master Classes for professional dancers.

 

Modern Dance Technique: The workshop centers on the skeleton and key structural muscles that promote deep spinal support. Locating the body’s center of support increases the dancer’s range and ease of movement, eliminates the need for compensation, and allows for meaningful physical and emotional release.  Dance phrases will focus on further explorations into rhythm, balance, and weight, and using gravity to generate movement flow.  By utilizing proper breath, alignment, and momentum, students achieve a more compelling quality of presence, a deeper awareness of the body, and greater clarity in their use of space and time.

 

Composition: The workshop uses an improvisation-based approach to generate and explore gestures, developing them into movement sequences using repetition and variation. Structured either around props (including objects and furniture) or around everyday technologies (including cell phones and MP3 players), the class encourages students to explore their physical relationship to the props or technologies, using them as an extension of the body. In order to work in concert with the objects, the students‚ gestures and movements must adapt in unexpected ways. A similar workshop can be designed without props or technologies, or designed to accommodate the particular needs of the host organization