STARTING Oct 11
Going until November 29
A block of 8 MB classes with Sam Aros-Mitchell,
Noelle Awadallah and Margaret Ogas
Wednesday evenings
6:00-8pm
Please register for class via email samarosmitchell@gmail.com
Classes are free
FOR BIPOC AND NATIVE FOIX ONLY
Drop-in basis
What is MB?
MB is a kinesthetic movement research, founded by
dancer/farmer Min Tanaka, further developed by
practitioners worldwide. MB or Muscle/Bone technique
often works within a format built on a series of progressive
invitations to move across the floor, serving to open the
body to new possibilities for movement through challenge, (
dis)coordination, rhythmic study, exhaustion and raw physicality.
MB resists the definition of a singular “technique" in the traditional
sense of the word. The movements proposed here serve to
decontextualize the participants known body, by calling attention
to fixed habits/tendencies, drawing upon group energy, and refusing
to settle in a single point of movement reference. MB explores spatial
activation, as well as strategies for developing agility, speed,
coordination.
Sam Aros-Mitchell began training in MB technique with Maori
choreographer Charles Koroneho over 10 years ago and has
become one of the few teachers in the United States to offer this
workshop. This training informs much of Aros-Mitchell’s work, his
pedagogy, his artistic expression as well as working in the
movement community.
“This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through
a grant from the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, thanks t
o a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.”