class | ZoomDance Winter Session (1/12 – 3/1)

ZoomDance Winter Session
Thursdays, January 12 – March 1

ZoomDance classes at Studio34 are offered at a sliding scale of $90-$110 for the whole 8 weeks, which also gives you unlimited access to all the ZoomDance classes around the city. Or buy a 5-class card for $70, no expiration. For more information, please visit the ZoomDance website at http://www.zoomdance.com/.

10:30am – 11:15am Thursdays, 1.5-3 years
ZoomDance: This is a high energy class of dance, music, story-telling, imagination and fun! Over the course of the session, children will develop agility, coordination, rhythm, and balance through a dynamic range of actions. There is an emphasis on creativity and building confidence through songs, stories, and performance. Each week we’ll read a new story and then explore the movement and adventures of the characters. Kids have the opportunity to show off their favorite moves, invent characters, and try lots of new movement ideas. Grown-ups are encouraged to participate in this class with their small dancers.

4pm – 4:50pm Thursdays, 3-5 years
Intermediate ZoomDance: This class has the same essence as the younger ZoomDance class, with lots of energy and focus on exploring new ideas. We will start to push the edges of dancing the spectrum from wild abandon to careful details. In addition to learning trickier “moves”, we will start thinking of phrases and dances instead of only individual moves, and students will perform for each other in class. When acting out the story, our teachers will encourage students to offer their own ideas too. Grown-ups drop off their dancers for this one, and are invited in on the last day to see what we’ve been working on.


Lineup set for Philly Pecha Kucha 1

Philly Pecha Kucha 1

Philly Pecha Kucha 1

What’s Pecha Kucha? It’s a quick-moving, creative show-and-tell event in which presenters show 20 slides and talk about each one for 20 seconds. Here’s the lineup for PPK1 at Studio 34 on March 7:

* Julie Beckman, architect and principal at KBAS: “Six Years: Designing the Pentagon Memorial” | http://kbas-studio.com

* Nathaniel Popkin, essayist and author of “The Possible City”: “Living in Ruins” | http://nathanielpopkin.net

* Michelle Holshue, nursing-midwifery student at UPenn: “Angels, Handmaidens, Tyrants, Whores: Nurses in the Media.” | http://mizzchelle.tumblr.com

* Jonathan McEuen, neuroscientist and biotechnology consultant at UPenn: “Two Scientists Walk Into A Military Base…” | http://web.mac.com/jmceuen

* Alexa Bosse, designer at SMP Architects; & Ari Miller, landscape designer at Viridian Landscape Studio: “How Low-Tech Design Can Change How We Live” | http://maxmanpartners.com, http://www.viridianls.com

* Elisabeth Dubin, architect at SMP Architects: “Are We There Yet? Looking Back on Architecture’s Future” | http://elisabethdubin.info

* Dustin Fenstermacher, of Dustin Fenstermacher Photography: “Cat Show” | http://dustinfenstermacher.com

* Amy Freeman, city parks columnist for Phillyist: “Squares of Philadelphia” | Phillyist posts: http://tinyurl.com/d54ayj

* Frank Chance, president of Friends of Clark Park: “Toward a Better Clark Park” | http://clarkpark.info


Fun-a-Day 5 is this Saturday!

This Saturday, Feb. 14, come see the work of dozens of artists and creative people who made one work each day in January. Read the list of folks and projects at Artclash, the organizers of this great annual event.

Last year, about 50 artists came together to show the fruits of their labors. Here’s one view of the show , from 7 to 11 p.m., in 30 seconds…

Hope to see you on Saturday!


Antonio Aragona

Bio: Antonio Aragona

Antonio has a BA in Psychology, is a Certified Shiatsu Practitioner (CSP) through The Motherhand Society, Certified Massage Therapist (CMT) through the International Massage Association, Registered Yoga Instructor (RYI) through the National Yoga Alliance, AYI (Ayur-Yoga Instructor through Betheyla Anuradha), CAS (Certified Ayurveda for Self-care) and CAHE (Certified Ayurvedic Health Educator) through The American Institute of Vedic Studies. Antonio is a CAP (Certified Ayurveda Practitioner) and AAP (Advanced Ayurveda Practitioner) graduate of the Kerala Ayurveda Academy. Currently, he is working on his Masters in Ayurvedic Sciences through Hindu University of America.

Services & Modalites

Antonio (Vishnu) offers Ayurveda as a means for supporting health and harmony. Ayurveda is a unique holistic system of medicine, known as the science of life and is the mother of all medicine. It educates us on how to live in balance according to the five elements of ether, air, fire, water and earth. Specific combinations of these elements creates a biological constitutional type and psychological configuration. Antonio offers consultations, tongue, eye, pulse assessment, treatments and various other modals as part of a unified holistic approach to supporting the body-mind-spirit complex into alignment.

Contact

Antonio Aragona uses wellness rooms at Studio 34, which offers this listing as a service to our providers, not as an endorsement. Please contact Antonio directly if you are interested in his services.

Whoo hoo! 500Gb of public-domain video


This isn’t exactly news from West Philly, but should nevertheless elate the film directors, video artists, and mashup mavens in our midst:

Public.Resource.Org, the supercool folks who pry from the government’s hands stuff we taxpayers have paid for, have posted half a terabyte of public-domain film clips, “from WWII Disney productions to Army training films to Fish and Wildlife Service documentaries of wilderness areas,” according to this post on BoingBoing.

Go, download, and have at it!