Thursdays, 1/24 through 3/27, 10 times

6:30pm—8:30pm
Suggested Donation $5–$10/class

Location: Silverspace, 1474 N Milwaukee Ave. #3R, Chicago, IL 60622

More Info & Contact: artunionhumanscape@live.jp

Class Discription:
Maintain and develop your body, practicing movement informed by anatomy, Qi Gong, deep breathing, acupoint self-massage, and imagery from the movement and state of nature. Ideokinetic Tao aligns your bone-muscle structure and organizes the energy flow in your body to achieve better coordination within your movement. The  class  aims  for  an effortless and expressive  way  of performance, encouraging movement that is more open and free from the core.

Instructor Profile:
Ayako works as a choreographer and dancer throughout the US, Japan and Europe. She has studied ballet since age 4 and received an MFA in Dance from the University of Michigan. Based on her own dance training experience from traumatic and rigorous ones to other eye, body, and mind opening ones, she has worked on building up her own physical practice. She taught her own method since 2000 throughout the Tokyo area in dance studios and intensive workshops; as well as giving masterclasses at the University of Michigan, University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, the National University of Shimane (Japan) and other locations. She is currently one of Chicago Dancemakers Forum Lab Artists 2007 and also one of recipients of CROSSCUT Sound and Movement Collaboration project supported by Experimental Sound Studio and Links Hall.

Free! Sound and Movement Improvisation Workshop in June 2007

Ayako Kato will offer a free improvisation workshop. The workshop will focus on how to prepare yourself to listen to your body better as a dance/movement improviser and how to coexist with music and musicians. This will culminate with an informal showing.

Details on Main Topics:

Week 1 Preparing Body

Week 2 Study of Ma, Space, Stillness, & Silence

Week 3 Creating Space (individual and w/ others)

Week 4 Being with Sound

Guest musicians: Keefe Jackson (saxophone), Brian Labycz (electronics)

Guest musicians will join in the week 4 and the showing.

When & Where: Wednesdays, 6/6, 6/13, 6/20, 6/27  7-9 pm @ Silverspace 1474 N. Milwaukee Ave. & 6/30 Showing 2-5 pm (Actual Showing starts from 4 pm) @ Links Hall 3435 N. Sheffield Contact, Reservation & More Info: Email

Double bassist Jason Roebke and dancer Ayako Kato lead an exploration into the possibilities of and intersections between improvised music and dance as original performance. Participants will investigate and expand their ability to establish their own space, then complement and coexist with sounds. This workshop will begin with warming and tuning up the body-mind condition as a medium for creation.

For more information or to register, contact Links Hall, Erica or CJ, at 773.281.0824 or info@linkshall.org.

Links Hall 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657 www.linkshall.org

Our body movement is influenced by our memory and experience as human beings. In this class, Kato will explore how to realize full moments of being in diverse ways, how to grasp the whole as environment, and how to grasp our body from the core as one in space and time. This class starts with release and stretch movement informed by anatomy, acupoint self-massage, deep breathing, Qi Gong, and imagery.

For more information or to register, contact Links Hall, Erica or CJ, at 773.281.0824 or info@linkshall.org.

Links Hall 3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago, IL 60657 www.linkshall.org