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Post Modern
with
Samsam Yung
September 29 2016, 7-9pm
SUGGESTED DONATION $8 OR PAY WHAT YOU CAN
Brooklyn Arts Exchange

Class description
​Class starts on the floor, with focus on weight, its relationship to the floor, and breath, its movement inside our bodies. We begin to warm up the body and access the articulation of our spine through spiraling and rolling in and out of the floor. Next, using a combination of yoga inspired movements and classical centering exercises, we find our center and from that place, we reach for new edges in our physical range and beyond our range into our kinesphere.
Through simple improvisational tasks, we will unlock our attention and direct it to a more exploratory and playful place.
The final movement phrase will be spatially expansive, full bodied and luscious. For the more advance dancers, there will be opportunities within the phrase to be precise about details, to make choices, find nuances, and explore dynamic as well as qualitative range.

Experience required for the participants
Open level. I am happy to teach at the level of the class and give variations and options to accommodate differences in experience and abilities.

Goals for participants
Increase awareness of articulation, initiation, sensations. Deepening of qualitative range and diversity.
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Goals for myself
Keep the class moving so that the desired physical experience can be created. Have enough pauses to actually communicate verbally the subtleties and logic behind the movement. I intend to offer a class that is both useful as a rigorous physical maintenance routine and enrichening as a exploratory practice that should deepen the dancer's understanding of her own movement. 

About Samsam
Samsam Yung was born in Hong Kong and grew up in Japan. She attended Universite de Lumiere in Lyon, France. She holds a BA from Brown University and an MS from Carnegie Mellon.
Her dance education has been self-tailored. She studied Simonson Technique at Dance New Amsterdam, aka, Dance Space and holds a teacher's certificate in Simonson Technique. Her personal practice and exploration is strongly influenced by somatic post-modern approaches with attention to weight and sensation. Her dancing shows interest in details, technical precision, clarity, dynamic and qualitative range. She is interested in relationships, relationship of the body to itself, to space, to the ground, to other bodies.
Since returning to training in 2012, Samsam has performed for Stephanie Landouer , DanceAction, Nimbus Dance Works, Pavel Zustiak, Jacklyn Buglisi and Pascal Lambert. She graduated from DNA’s CIC program in 2013. Since then, she has presented her work at DNA, Brooklyn Music School, Aileys, the Graham studio, and the Brick. Some of these works were made in collaboration with her dear friend and mentor Talli Jackson. She is currently also a member of Estado Flotante and Not For Retail. In 2016, she will be presenting her work at Gibney dance center in New York and CHI movement and arts center in Philadelphia. 
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about this series
This series is geared towards the professional development of dance teachers, and as a mean to offer affordable training for the dance community.

​This series is a part of the CREATING SPACE Program. Funded in large part by the Lambent Foundation Fund of Tides Foundation, the CREATING SPACE Program provides opportunities to support and develop artists of all races, backgrounds, cultures, sexual orientations, gender identities and aesthetic traditions.