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.


class series | Beginning Hoop Dancing (starts 1/11)

Beginning Hoop Dancing | 6-Week Class Series with Jen Web
Six sessions, $60 pre-registration ($70 at first class)

Tuesdays 7:30-8:30pm
Jan 18 – Feb 22
FREE intro class Jan 11, 7:30-8:30pm

Spin your way to improved health and happiness with hoop dance! Jen Web will teach you the fundamentals of hoop dance and plenty of mesmerizing tricks that you can incorporate into your own dance style. Strengthen your body as you learn to spin the hoop around your waist, neck, hands and legs. Meditate and relieve stress as you discover your inner rhythm. Hoop dance is the perfect mind/body exercise for those who want to get fit and have fun!

* Hoops provided for class use and for sale on site!
* Bring lots of water!
* Please wear fitted, comfortable clothing and sneakers.

For more info on Jen Web and Funtown visit:
www.funtownproductions.com
www.jen-web.com


open practice | West Philly Hoop Jam (1/9)


Funtown and Studio 34 present…
West Philly Hoop Jam ~ 1 Year Anniversary!
Sunday, January 9
Special 3-Hour Edition!
7:30pm-10:30pm
$5

Join Jen Web for an evening of hoop dance at the beautiful and spacious Studio 34! Enjoy three full hours of open practice with other hoopers in a casual, fun environment. Share tricks, practice a routine, and meet new friends! Hoops provided but feel free to bring your own. Appropriate for all experience levels.

Face Painting by Bodypaint.Me

more info:
http://www.funtownproductions.com/
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talk | Introduction to Naturopathy (1/27)

Introduction to Naturopathy
Thursday, January 27th
7:30pm – 8:30pm
In the Studio34 Lounge
FREE

Jaie Bosse, ND is offering this introductory talk designed for anyone interested in achieving optimal wellness. The principles of naturopathic medicine will be introduced, showing how this unique approach to health can benefit everyone. Naturopathy uses natural tools like diet, herbals, homeopathy, hydrotherapy and flower essences to stimulate the body to return to its natural state of optimal health.

Naturopathic medicine began during the Nature Cure movement of the nineteenth century. The earliest doctors used herbs, foods, water, fasting and tissue manipulation to restore the body to health. Today, naturopaths combine the wisdom of nature with the rigors of modern science.

Contact Jaie at (215) 995-1247 or Jaie@IlluminatingHealth.com.

www.IlluminatingHealth.com


theatre | My Catatonia (1/14)


My Catatonia
Friday, January 14
8:00 pm
FREE

Using only one actress (Kat Johnston) and many filmic elements, we live a day in the life of Teeny, a woman suffering from catatonic schizophrenia. This darkly comic piece by the writer Ryan Luff is the inaugural collaborative effort of Hypercolor Productions.

The first workshop of the play will be on January 14, 2011 at 8:00 pm. The event is free and open to the public. Please join us.


music | 8static (1/8)

8static
Saturday, January 8th, 2011
7:00pm at Studio 34 – all ages!
$8 / $5 with RSVP

Music by:
Aliceffekt (MTL)
[XC3N] (MTL)
rhinostrich (NYC)
Adam Gets Awesome (NYC)

Visuals by:
enso (PHL)

Pre-show event:
TBA

www.8static.com


workshop | Couples Partner Yoga (2/12)

Couples Partner Yoga Workshop with Brittany T Policastro
Saturday, February 12
12:30pm – 3:30pm
$50 per couple
$40 pre-registration until Feb 1 (per couple)

If you ask me, Valentine’s Day is pretty overrated. People scurrying around town trying to find the cheapest price on red roses because they feel obligated to get their partner something. Blehk!

So let’s redefine it a bit. Help me bring back the LOVE in Valentine’s Day…

In this special workshop we will celebrate and deepen your relationship with various poses and meditations that offer you and your partner the chance to connect while in a light hearted and fun loving environment. All of the poses will be explored using the support of your partner as a way to play with the balance of giving and receiving. So come out and play, explore and love! This workshop is suitable for all levels.


new class | Osho Dynamic Meditation (Tuesdays)

New Class!
Osho Dynamic Meditation
Tuesdays 8:30am-9:45am with Brittany

Are you interested in meditation but cringe at the thought of sitting crossed legged for more than 5 minutes? Or once you actually do get comfortable is your mind racing? Then this class is for YOU!

In this class we will explore meditation in a whole new way. This form of mediation was created by Enlightened Zen master Osho. We will scream. We will laugh. We will cry. We will dance. How can you sit still with all this stuff in your head? All this repression in your body? So we shake it up first. Then we get quiet. Give it a try. It just may change your life. This class is suitable for all levels, while jumping is involved, modifications can be made.


class | Queer and Trans Yoga (1/15)


Queer & Trans Yoga with Jacoby Ballard
Saturday, January 15
10:45 am – 12:15 pm
Pay-what-you-can!

Queer and Trans Yoga is a class specifically for the LGBT community that recognizes and adores the many ways of expressing gender and loving others. Jacoby Ballard incorporates partner yoga poses, restorative poses, vinyasa flow, and anything else that you suggest. Whether you’re new to yoga or have years of experience, this class if for you, with you!

ABOUT THE TEACHER: Jacoby Balard has taught yoga for 10 years with certifications from Kashi Ashram and Kripalu Yoga Center’s Advanced Teacher Training. Jacoby worked in spaces non-traditional to yoga—art studios, conference centers, homeless shelters—until co-founding Third Root, a community health center that specializes in yoga and acupuncture in Brooklyn. Jacoby came out as trans through his own practice of yoga and remains committed to transgender health. He works with dozens of trans and gender non-conforming clients and teaches many workshops on the topic, including three weekly Queer and Trans Yoga classes in New York City. Jacoby’s passion for working with students of all bodies, genders and experiences is combined with precise alignment, adapting yogic scriptures to life in the West, and offering physical challenges that honor where the body is at right now. He is in love with the study and practice of yoga and has helped to create a socially-just minded atmosphere for its study at Third Root.


workshop | Expecting Unexpected Bodies (1/15)


Expecting Unexpected Bodies: Teaching Yoga to Queer, Trans, and Dis/abled Communities
Workshop with Jacoby Ballard and Lezlie Frye
Saturday, January 15th
12:30 pm – 2:30 pm
Tuition: $20 before January 10th, $25 thereafter

This workshop is for yoga teachers who seek to honor and include a wide range of bodies, backgrounds, and experiences in their classrooms. What kinds of bodies do we expect as teachers? Who do we leave out? How do we understand our own bodies as we practice in community? Together we will explore and sit with our assumptions about trans, queer, and dis/abled people as well as the ways that we reflect those ideas in our instructions, adjustments, and language. Angel Kyodo Williams says that “consciousness frustrates oppression.” Becoming present to who is in the room and adapting how and what we teach is part of our own practice and holds the possibility of radically “frustrating” the assumptions and habits that constrain us as teachers and practitioners.

We will also examine yoga lineage, text, and tradition that either makes room for varied bodies or that explicitly excludes certain experiences. Jacoby Ballard and Lezlie Frye offer alternative approaches to teaching and practice that expect and invite dis/abled, queer and trans communities. As we welcome more people into our studios and community spaces, how must our hearts expand?

ABOUT THE TEACHERS:

Jacoby Ballard and Lezlie Frye are committed to slowing down, making room, and holding space for all of the communities and movements they hold dear. Their work merges social justice and embodied spiritual practice, joy and struggle, work and play. Their partnership has been essential both for their individual practice and in the yoga of relationship. In their alliance to one another around dis/ability and gender identity, they continue to find connections and build their capacity to love.

Jacoby Ballard is a yoga teacher, herbalist, organizer, and co-founder of Third Root Community Health Center in Brooklyn, NY. Jacoby has practiced yoga for 12 years and has taught for 10 years. He received his 200-hour certification from Kashi Ashram in Atlanta, and his 500-hour Advanced Yoga Teacher Training at Kripalu Yoga Center. Until teaching at Third Root, Jacoby only taught in non-traditional spaces for yoga: art studios, non-profit offices, homeless shelters, and at conferences out of his commitment to the communities that don’t show up at or are not invited into yoga studios. Jacoby loves working with students of all bodies, genders, and experiences, and offers his students precise alignment, the lessons of yogic scriptures suited to daily life in the West, and physical challenge in an atmosphere of love and compassion for where the body is at right now. He is in love with the study and practice of yoga and has helped to create a socially-just minded atmosphere for the study of yoga at Third Root.

Lezlie Frye is a yogi, activist, performance artist, poet and scholar based in Brooklyn, NY. She was a company member of GIMP, a NY-based interdisciplinary dance project and a former member of SINS Invalid, San Francisco–based artist’s collective exploring dis/abled sexuality. In conjunction with yoga, movement work and performance, she leads workshops and teach-ins around the country. Frye is currently a doctoral student in the American Studies Program, Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, at New York University. Her work explores embodiment and citizenship, with a critical focus on race, dis/ability, gender, and social justice.


* Studio Lounge will be closed Christmas Weekend * (12/24, 12/25, 12/26)

The Studio34 Lounge is closed on Friday 12/24, Saturday 12/25, and Sunday 12/26.

Some classes will be running during this time; please check the Classes page for details.

Happy Holidays!


class | Juega y Baila (1/4, 1/11, 1/18, 1/25)

New Monthly 4-week Class Series!
Juega Y Baila
Tuesdays in January: January 4, 11, 18, 25
10:00 am – 10:45 am
$40/4 weeks (per parent/child)

Pre-registration recommended. Class size is limited.
Drop-in permitted for first class only ($10).

‘Juega Y Baila’ is a bilingual creative movement class in Spanish and English for children (ages 11- 23 months) and their caregivers. We will stretch our bodies and imagination through movement activities that help support our physical development and spatial awareness. Using spanish songs, rhythmic games and gentle bodywork, we will explore group and partner interactions while learning new concepts and words. We invite you to clap, slide, crawl, swing, roll, freeze, wiggle, breathe, melt and fly with your little one and all of us.

Estos talleres ofrecerán una experiencia de movimiento creativo a niños/ niñas y a los adultos acompañantes. A través del estiramiento del cuerpo y la estimulación de la imaginación, desarrollaremos conciencia del espacio físico y otros nuevos espacios imaginados. Utilizando canciones, cuentos, y juegos rítmicos, exploraremos la interacción de grupo y de parejas entre niños y adultos. Ven, aprende y disfruta en un ambiente bilingüe, mientras saltamos, bailamos, nos deslizamos, gateamos, giramos, rodamos, y nos remeneamos de alegría.

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TEACHER BIO

Marion Ramirez is a Puerto Rican dance artist. For the last 15 years, she has enjoyed teaching creative movement to children and adults from a variety of cultural backgrounds. In New York City she worked as a teaching artist for The Joyce Theater and for Brooklyn Arts Exchange where she developed a bilingual creative movement program as well as babies and parents classes. As a dancer/choreographer she has had the opportunity to perform and study in Europe, US, South Korea, Cuba and Puerto Rico. She completed her BA in dance and education at the Laban Center in London and has continued her research in different modalities of somatic practices including Alexander Technique, Body Mind Centering, Kinetic Awareness, Contact Improvisation among others. She is currently a spanish teacher for pre-schoolers at Greene Towne Montessori School in Philadelphia.


workshop series | Theatre of the Oppressed (1/6, 1/13, 1/20, 1/27)

Theatre of the Oppressed Workshop Series
Thursday Evenings, 6–7:30 pm
January 6, 13, 20 and 27
Tuition: $35 for the month
Pre-register by calling 215-730-0982
or email “tophilly@gmail.com


Theatre of the Oppressed expresses experiences through movement, sounds, images and words. In this 4-part series we’ll explore games and techniques that loosen the boundaries of our senses to get us thinking and moving outside of our usual routines. Each week will build on work done in previous sessions, handing us some tools with which we can dismantle the oppressions in ourselves and the world around us—all that while having fun! No theatre experience needed.

Pre-register by emailing “tophilly@gmail.com” or call 215-730-0982.


art show/party | Celebrate People’s History (1/7, 2/4)

Celebrate People’s History
Art Show & Book Release Party

Opening Event: Friday, January 7th, 7pm-10pm

Closing Event: Friday, February 3rd, 7pm-10pm

Just in time for Valentine’s Day, fall in love with radical history all over again!

Since 1998, activist artist Josh MacPhee has commissioned and produced over 100 posters by more than 80 artists that pay tribute to revolution, racial justice, women’s rights, queer liberation, labor struggles, and creative activism and organizing. Celebrate People’s History presents these essential moments—acts of resistance and great events in an often hidden history of human and civil rights struggles—as a visual tour through decades and across continents, from the perspective of some of the most interesting and socially engaged artists working today. This show celebrates the legacy of these movements and the poster series, as well as the release of a book collecting them all.

Come to the closing event of the Celebrate People’s History art show. There will be food and music, plus copies of the book for sale, as will individual posters, and other books and works of art. Around 8pm we’ll have short presentations from:

* Josh MacPhee, curator of the Celebrate People’s History series and editor of the CPH book
* Laura Whitehorn, former political prisoner and editor of The War Before by Safiya Bukhari
* Poster artists Morgan Andrews, Dan Berger, Beth Pulse, Erik Ruin, and Eian Weissman
* Local activists whose work is featured in the book


yoga | New Year’s Eve Forrest Yoga Ceremony (12/31)


New Year’s Eve Forrest Yoga Ceremony
Friday, December 31st
7:30–10pm

Suggested donation $5 to $20, or a book from our list of wanted books (see below)

Donations will go to fill the shelves of Studio 34′s Yoga|Healing|Arts Library

Say farewell to the old year and hello to the new with an extended Forrest Yoga Ceremony led by Studio 34′s Morgan Andrews. Through silent and guided meditation, pranayama and asana, this will be an opportunity for you to go deeper into the playful side of your practice. All are welcome to attend, whether you’re new to yoga or ready to work with more advanced poses. Proceeds go toward building up Studio 34′s Yoga|Healing|Arts Library as a resource for students and teachers of yoga. You can contribute through a monetary donation, or by providing any of the following books:

  • Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing, by Caroline Myss.
  • The Courage to Heal Workbook: For Women and Men Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse, by Laura Davis.
  • Only Don’t Know: Selected Teaching Letters of Zen Master Seung Sahn, by Seung Sahn.
  • Energy Anatomy: The Science of Personal Power, Spirituality, and Health, by Caroline Myss.
  • Interbeing Fourteen Guidelines for Engaged Buddhism, by Thich Nhat Hahn.
  • Molecules of Emotion:  Why You Feel the Way You Feel, by Candace B. Pert and Deepak Chopra.
  • Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, A Young Man and Life’s Greatest Lesson, by Mitch Albom.
  • Fat, Stupid, Ugly: One Woman’s Courage to Survive, by Debrah Constance.
  • Real Food, by Nina Planck.
  • Yoga as Medicine, by Dr. Timothy McCall.
  • Healing with Whole Foods: Asian Traditions & Modern Nutrition, by Paul Pitchford. 3rd Edition.
  • Bioenergetics, by Alexander Lowen.
  • Buffalo Woman Comes Singing: The Spirit Song of a Rainbow Medicine Woman, by Brooke Medicine Eagle.
  • Compassionate Child-Rearing: An In-Depth Approach to Optimal Parenting, by Robert W. Firestone.
  • The Creation of Health: The Emotional, Psychological, and Spiritual Responses that Promote Health and Healing, by Norman Shealy, Caroline Myss.
  • The Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics, by Gary Zukav.
  • Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection, by: John E. Sarno.
  • Messages: The Communication Book, by Matthew McKay, Martha Davis, Patrick Fanning.
  • Principle-Centered Leadership, by Stephen R. Covey.
  • Revolution from Within:  A Book of Self-Esteem, by Gloria Steinem.
  • Science of Breath, by Swami Rama, Rudolph Ballentine and Alan Hymes.
  • Spontaneous Healing: How to Discover and Enhance Your Body’s Natural Ability to Maintain and Heal Itself, by Andrew Weil.
  • Transpersonal Medicine: The New Approach to Healing Body, Mind, Spirit, by G. Frank Lawlis.
  • The 12 Stages of Healing: A Network Approach to Wholeness, by David M. Epstein.
  • When Anger Hurts: Quieting the Storm Within, by Matthew McKay.
  • World Medicine: The East/West Guide to Healing Your Body, by Tom Monte.
  • Yoga and Psychotherapy: The Evolution of Consciousness, by Swami Rama, Rudolph Ballentine and Swami Ajaja.
  • Anatomy of Hatha Yoga: A Manual for Students, Teachers, and Practitioners, by H. David Coulter and Timothy McCall.
  • Awakening the Spine: The Stress-Free Yoga that Works with the Body to Restore Health, Vitality and Energy, by Vanda Scaravelli.
  • The Dance of Anger: A Woman’s Guide to Changing the Patterns of Intimate Relationships, Harriet Lerner.
  • Physiology Coloring Book, by Wynn Kapit.
  • Anatomy Coloring Book, by Wynn Kapit, Laurence M. Elson
  • Eat Right for Your Type, by Peter J. D’Adamo.

show and tell | Pecha Kucha Night Vol. 7 (1/1)

Pecha Kucha Night Philadelphia Vol. 7
Sat., Jan. 1, 2011
7:30pm – 9:30pm
$5 suggested donation

MORE INFO: http://pecha-kucha.org/night/philadelphia/

PKNP Vol. 7 will feature talks about girls who rock, podcasts about Philly, goats that groom urban spaces, and more!

What’s Pecha Kucha? It’s rapidfire creative show-and-tell governed by a simple rule: show 20 PowerPoint slides, talk about each one for 20 seconds. (It’s also the Japanese word for the sound of conversation.) Wired magazine called Pecha Kucha: “Say what you need to say in six minutes and 40 seconds of exquisitely matched words and images and then sit the hell down.” We call it an evening of fun, sociability, and a little learning thrown in. Devised by Tokyo architects Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham, Pecha Kucha (say peh-CHAK-cha) events have been held in more than 200 cities.

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Philly Pecha Kucha

Mailing list: http://pecha-kucha.org/cities/philadelphia
Facebook: http://facebook.com/group.php?gid=43011883327
Twitter: @PHLPechaKucha
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/phillypechakucha


art/party | 8th Annual Bike Part Art Show (12/3)


Party, silent auction and craft boutique
Friday, December 3
7:00pm – 10:00pm
$5 suggested donation

ART!
CRAFTS!
MUSIC!
SNACKS!
RAFFLE!

Few events have as many exciting components as Neighborhood Bike Works’ annual Bike Part Art Show. The Art Show is a fantastic celebration of cycling as a green and healthy mode of transportation, local arts and artists, and innovative reuse of waste materials, all for the benefit of NBW’s free after-school programs and scholarships for our summer camps.

Every year since 2003, Neighborhood Bike Works has invited local artists to dig through our old parts bins for bits with artistic potential as the basis for works of art, or to create works otherwise celebrating bike culture. Then we put on a show of the amazing results, which are sold in a silent auction to fund our free youth cycling programs and summer camp scholarships. It doubles as a great party!

Want to get involved? Volunteer, be a bike part artist, or sponsor the show in 2010! Email artshow@neighborhoodbikeworks.org


music series | Sweet Sound of Music (12/4)

Studio 34 Presents: Sweet Sound of Music
Saturday, December 4
7:30pm
$10 suggested donation ~ special-brewed sweet teas and hot cider on us!

Step out of the crisp air and bustling December days for an all Philly serenade. Set your timepiece to slow, grab a cushion or a spot on the sofa, cozy up to a friend or warm cup of cider, and settle in. The music is going to be something special, and you’ll not want to be anywhere else.

Sean Hoots
Sean Hoots plays music with a hundred different bands. You may be familiar with one of them, the perennially touring Hoots & Hellmouth. The other 99 bands generally reside squarely within the boundaries of his own head, but lately things have been getting kinda cramped in there. So, Sean’s gonna start letting them out. Acoustic r&b, programmed beats, country blues, mesmerizing soundscapes…all this and more can be expected from a Hoots solo show. Come on out and get to know all the voices in his head.

video: Hoots & Hellmouth – Off to Sea I Go

Hezekiah Jones
Hezekiah Jones is the musical nom de plume for Raphael Cutrufello and a band of like-minded musicians crafting alternative folk music. His catalog of songs sometimes sounds like a post-apocalyptic White Album, as covered by Sufjan Stevens. The biting, sometimes campy vibe only serves to intensify the blow of his sucker-punch ballads. Songs are filled with outlandish characters, imagined landscapes, ringing harmonies, and baroque instrumental flourishes, but never disconnect from the tangible feelings at their center. -Peter Marinari(CBS Local)

Barbara Gettes
(of The Spinning Leaves)


music | Benefit for S. Weir Mitchell Elementary School (12/18)

Scott McMicken, Andrew Gray, Corey Duncan
Saturday, December 18
7:00pm
$10

These three Philadelphian musicians will be playing solo acoustic sets to raise money for after school arts and music programs at S. Weir Mitchell Elementary school.


music | 8static (2nd Saturdays)

8static
2nd Saturdays at Studio34:

November 13
December 11
January 8
March 12
April 9
May 14

7:00pm
$8/$5 with RSVP (on website)

8static is Philly’s only all-ages monthly chip music event. Each lineup features music and video artists from around the world, with pre-show events and workshops, as well as monthly open mic for up and coming musicians! For full lineup info, check out: http://8static.com

Cover is $8/$5 with RSVP (on website)