20/20 Points of View, Luna Dance Institute, Bianca Brzezinski
Luna’s Dance Week contribution was also a birthday celebration. 20/20 Points of View was a smashing success. 20 choreographers used our sweet little studio in half hour increments however they wanted. Gaggles of school kids came to watch. Their exposure to dance was varied and skilled. Our contributors included: Deborah Slater, Sonya Delwaide, Anne Bluethenthal, Shinichi Iova-Koga, Megan Nicely, Byb Chanel Bibene, Deborah Karp, Yuki Fujimoto, Sheldon Smith, Alisa Rasera, The Thick Ones, Jeanette Male & Glenn Corteza (tango), dNaganuma, Marlita Hill, Alyce Finwall, Bianca Brezinski and more…updates & photos delivered all week on facebook. Check out Mary Ellen Hunt’s article in the SF Chronicle: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=%2Fc%2Fa%2F2012%2F04%2F27%2FDDJH1O9I42.DTL
Fisherman's Wharf, Pier 45, Spring 2012
Improvisation Performance with Shu Lace,Dance, Improvise, and Play!
Classes beginning in April, 2012.@ The Happiness Institute, 1720 Market St.
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Dance Improvisation places the emphasis on the imagination and the symbolic nature of images. Taking the natural every day movement of your body and expanding on it through impulse and intention, dancers explore their own bodies in a relaxed state of being, finding deeper communication between the mind and the body. By building awareness of one's movement an individual can then make clear, conscious movement choices. Not only can a dancer sense new movement possibilities, they can free themselves of habitual ways of moving. By seeing and feeling, we will explore listening to our bodies and expand on our experience of moving, noticing how we generate movement and what gives us reason to act. We will work as individuals and in groups, to expand our awareness of our direction and space. We will focus on free improvisation and advance to structured improvisation. All levels welcome. Please wear clean socks to class.
Feel free to contact me at Bbski13@gmail.com for additional information.
Dance Improvisation Theater by Opal Street in San Francisco, City Colleg...
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Space, Emotion, Spirit, Mind
I like to broaden my horizons by doing things I haven’t experienced before. So when I saw a listing for a free dance-theater improvisation workshop, offered by San Francisco Bay Area choreographer and Mills College alumnus Bianca Brzezinski, I jumped on the opportunity.
Every Friday in May we met in a small black-box theater in San Francisco, where for two hours we did a series of improvisation exercises that inspired movement. Being a non-dancer, this workshop gave me the chance to explore dance without being caught up in the technique of movement. My imagination and my everyday gestures were viable means to exploring my body in space, my body moved by emotion, and my body confidently and securely connected to spirit and mind. I learned to trust my impulses and use “mistakes” as an occasion to do movement differently. I learned to deeply listen.
Speaking about doing improvisation, Brzezinski says, “My body leads me to discover things about myself through movement because motion expresses emotion, and sometimes it’s hard to confront your emotions face to face. Dance releases you.”
During our final workshop, I made a discovery when we did a free-writing exercise for a minute, read over each participant’s text, and then selected a phrase to create movement to. I chose, from another participant’s free-write, “Why my angel?” In my first round of a two-minute solo, I spoke the words and my movement was broad; however, I wasn’t focused because I was feeling self-conscious.
After receiving feedback from Brzezinski and participants, in the second round I internalized the phrase, making small, delicate, and boxed movements and facial expressions that articulated distress. I was communicating through my body a sadness ripe with creative energy. It was quite amazing!
Something beautiful and real came from me that Friday evening, something that made me know myself wholly as a dancer. —Arisa White, Editorial Assistant
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How do you use words to convey a wordless experience?
Opal Street DIT 1.21.12 at LevyDance Salon
Ebb + Flow
Performing a solo with talented musician Erma Kyriakos, Bianca Brzezinski will be performing at the 1st Mills College Alumni Dance Concert on February 3 at 8p.m. 
Opal Street Dance Improvisation Theater
The Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts, Mountain View, CA. December 3, 2011.