Fall Class Information
At Green Street Studios:
Advanced Beginning
Mondays from 7:30-9:00,
Session One: Sept 14- October 26 (no class Columbus Day)
pre-register for 6 classes for just $72!
$15 drop-ins
This class is for adult dancers with some experience and a basic understanding of dance vocabulary. It's a great place to start if you are coming back to
dance. The class explores a full understanding of the spine, expanded vocabulary, alignment, and musicality through full bodied phrases. Friendly atmosphere and live music!
Intermediate
Wednesdays from 5:45-7:15
September 9-October 28 Pre-register for 8 classes just $88
drop ins $15
Intermediate modern is a challenging class for dancers with experience. The class focuses on a deep understanding of the body and incorporates ideas from Limon, Cunningham and Graham techniques. Dancers will move through a
warm-up that builds strength and clarifies alignment followed by extended phrases which are rhythmically and physically challenging. The class also focuses on performance quality, focus and presence. Generous atmosphere and live music.
***************** Delta Skymiles-Can you help us get back to Alaska?
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Dear Friends,
Welcome to the September edition of the Weber Dance e-newsletter. We're pleased to bring you updates on all of our exciting summer activities and on upcoming fall performances and classes.
This newsletter includes:
- Highlights on our work in Juneau, Alaska 2009.
- A Spotlight on dancer, Maggie Husak
- Fall class information
- Information on our upcoming performance with Yow Dance in Florida
Are there other topics you would like to hear about? Don't hesitate to email us at
Please enjoy! 
Warm regards,
Jody Weber
Artistic Director
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Weber Dance Back in Alaska
In August 2009, Weber Dance returned to Juneau, Alaska and offered a two week residency with Juneau Dance Unlimited and the Juneau Arts and Humanities Council. This year's residency allowed us to reconnect with many members of the wonderful community that we met last year. All of the children returned again this summer with eight additional new students. Many of our teens graduated last year, but those that didn't returned to dance again, and we were fortunate to have two wonderful adults join us as well. Once again, we were all amazed by the generosity of the community who opened the doors of their homes, loaned us their cars, and even brought us gifts like the bucket of freshly caught crabs! The students were wonderful- open to new ideas, willing to work hard and engage themselves on every level. Nothing could be more satisfying as teachers and artists. We all enjoyed celebrating our students' accomplishments in the evening and still found time to watch bears fishing for salmon or take little hikes in the beautiful wilderness. But the best part about our stay was the relationships we were able to build with the community through our classes and performance.
Our residency in Juneau offered us the opportunity once again to do what we love the most. It allowed us to connect deeply with students through the power of the moving body, the art of creation, and the deep joy of sharing dance together.
We are thrilled to be invited back to Juneau in June of 2010 and look forward to working with all of the great dancers and wonderful people of Alaska.
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Spotlight on the Dancers:
Maggie Husak 
I am 34 years old and have been a member of Weber Dance since 2004. And echoing Sarah Jessica Parker in that film classic "Girls Just Want to Have Fun," I love to dance. Sometimes I believe my love of dance has stuck with me for so long in part because I began my formal dance training at the "late" age of 16. Prior to that, my physical expressions consisted mostly of tantrum-throwing (age 3), impatiently circling my mother in department stores (age 6), country line dancing in "kicker" clubs in my home state of Texas (age 9), and diving for yet-to-be-served volleyballs (age 14). And while the latter might be an indication that I was not really cut-out for competitive sports, movement expression has always played a prominent role in my life.
Dance remains central to my whole being. I may never make my millions doing it (I seem to have missed the boat with shows like "So You Think You Can Dance"!) but that is not going to stop me any time soon! Of course I have additional intellectual yearnings and strong pull toward making the world a better place to live (don't we all!) as exemplified by my current academic pursuits (I am currently at Tufts University earning my Master in Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning.) But modern dance has served as the backbone for all of these endeavors, as it is truly at the core of who I am. And I don't believe that dancing and making the world a better place are mutually exclusive endeavors. The best thing an audience member can say to me is "watching that performance made me want to get up and dance." To me, communicating and infecting people with the same joy that I feel while moving is at the core of why I do this.
I feel grateful for the opportunity to dance with several companies in the Boston area, and I get something equally important and profound from the experience of dancing with each group. Dancing with Weber Dance is exceptionally challenging and stimulating in many different ways. For one thing, Jody really engages her dancers in the creative process. In addition to learning Jody's luscious and athletic original movement, often her dancers are encouraged to create movement that expresses an idea Jody is highlighting within a particular work. The work is then reflective of each of our personal and physical stories, and that is incredibly satisfying as an artist. It is additionally very satisfying to work with Jody because often those very themes she is exploring in her work tend to be parallel with that which I am investigating in my own life. Whether the work is exploring themes of materialism and consumption or our culturally-learned state of detachment from the rhythms of the natural world, there is always something in me that very strongly relates to the messages that are being communicated by the work. Jody is also extremely committed to her dancers and gives us all many opportunities not only to perform the work, but also for individual personal and professional development.
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Weber Dance in Central Florida-- October 2nd and 3rd, 2009 at 8pm
October 4th, 2009 at 3pm
In early October Weber Dance will share an evening with Yow Dance in Orlando. Artistic Director, Eric Yow, has graciously invited us to join his wonderful company as they perform his exquisite and highly musical work. We are all looking forward to meeting the Florida community and working with Yow Dance. If you have friends and family in Florida, please send them an invitation to the performance. For more information on Yow Dance or the performance please visit http://www.yowdance.org/index.html | |
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