The time has come! This evening marks the opening night of the Surveillance Solos at the Santa Cruz Fringe Festival. The show will run all weekend long, so come check us out and spread the word!
Thursday July 19 at 6:30pm
Friday July 20 at 7pm
Saturday July 21 at noon
Saturday July 21 at 9pm
Sunday July 22 at 3:30pm
Motion at the Mill
131 Front Street Suite E
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
Get your tickets at:
http://www.santacruzfringefestival.com/index.php/tickets/by-artist/item/18-rebecca-alson-milkman*
In addition to performing at the SC Fringefest, I am also teaching a workshop.
A Re-Education of the Body:
the work of Barbara Mahler grounded in the principles of Klein Technique
Motion at the Mill
131 Front Street, Suite E
Santa Cruz 95060
Friday July 20, 11-1
$20
A Re-Education of the Body is a way to explore one’s capacity to move, bringing insight into the workings of one’s body. It brings efficiency, increased facility, and creativity. The work done in class facilitates process, and from the openness to process comes an openness to the wealth of options we often overlook – in our work, in our lives, in ourselves.
In this class, we aim at releasing the muscles so we can get down to the deepest tissue, the bone. When the bones are aligned we become connected, we become powerful and strong. We align the bones by using the muscles most responsible for the transfer of forces through the body – the psoas, the hamstrings, the external rotators, and the pelvic floor. We do not work to “exercise” these muscle but rather to “wake them up”; to use them for support for and realignment of the bones. Movement, and the treatment of each individual student’s body, mind and spirit with kindness, respect and generosity is our ultimate goal. And finally and most importantly, the body does not exist alone but in connection to the ground, the space, and to others.
(taken from writings by Barbara Mahler and Susan Klein.)
**Please consider contributing to support this big undertaking and pay our incredibly talented people for the work they do: http://www.indiegogo.com/surveillancesolos?a=607443
Using five women, Project Thrust’s new work, Urge, explores various psychological states in heterosexual relationships and the entanglement of food and lust. We all need and are constantly searching for ways to satisfy our burning desire for connection and comfort — whether it’s to each other, a place, a substance, or a feeling. So what happens when we fail to fulfill our hunger? Vice versa, what does it mean to be too full?
In a new solo, Alson-Milkman combines the two interests that have driven her professional career: making socially relevant dances and practicing a rigorousbone-based alignment technique. She sources her own body’s accumulated experience of loss, giving birth, emotional trauma and illness as a lens to reflect on both political engagement and anatomical connections. Showing the last of four sections, Alson-Milkman moves towards resolution by exploring the connection between the heart and the pelvis.
