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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.

The Rainbow of Desire in Performance
Saturday, May 7th
7:30-10:00 p.m.
This event is FREE • donations accepted

Have you ever been in a relationship where you felt something was wrong yet you weren’t quite sure what it was? Ever found yourself in situations where you knew what you needed to do but stopped yourself from taking action? What about when you experience so many different desires at once that you don’t know how to sort them out? These are the sorts of quandaries we will address in The Rainbow of Desire, a public presentation for using theatre to dismantle internalized oppression.

We begin the evening by hearing stories from the lives of audience members, one of which will be reenacted onstage. We then expose the hidden elements of the story—wayward emotions, complex desires, and cops in our heads that haunt the stage like ghosts from the characters’ minds. These ghosts appear first as human statues before being brought to life to do battle with each other so that we might learn what is useful and what we can do without. From there the original story is reshaped by what was experienced in revealing this hidden information, giving participants some tools to take with them into real-life situations. This is the essence of the Rainbow of Desire: a transformative performance that can be a rehearsal for reality.

In the Rainbow of Desire—as in all branches of Theatre of the Oppressed—everyone is aspect-actor, with the ability to be both in the audience and onstage. Everyone willl have opportunities to share stories, play characters, observe and offer feedback, or to embody the invisible elements of a situation. This event is free and open to the public. No theatre experience is necessary to attend or perform. For more info, call 215-730-0982, or email: tophilly@gmail.com.
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Beginning Hoop Dancing | 6-Week Class Series with Jen Web

Tuesdays 7:30-8:30pm
FREE intro class May 3, 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.

Thursday afternoons at 4pm for 3-5 year olds – through May 26th
Friday mornings at 10:30am for 1.5-3 year olds – through June 3rd

ZoomDance Action Adventure Storytelling Dance Classes are high-energy classes for kids that feature dance, music, storytelling, imagination, and lots of fun. Sessions emphasize creative play and build confidence through songs, stories, and performance, offering children the opportunity to develop agility, coordination, rhythm, and balance through a dynamic range of actions. Each week includes a new story and exploration into the movement and adventures of the characters. Kids can show off their favorite moves, invent characters, and try a variety of new movement ideas.

Come in for a free trial class at Studio 34! Visit ZoomDance online at www.zoomdance.com for more information.

Spring Workshop Series
Mondays 4/25–5/23, 7:30–9:30 p.m.
Full series tuition: $35–$65 sliding scale.
Pre-register by calling 215-730-0982
or email: tophilly@gmail.com

THEATRE OF THE OPPRESSED is used by groups of people to dismantle dynamics of oppression in our world. Unlike other dramatic forms that divide spectator from actor, everyone in Theatre of the Oppressed is a “spect-actor” in workshops that serve as rehearsals for the performance of everyday life.

THIS 5-WEEK SERIES will visit the various branches of Theatre of the Oppressed, including games, Image Theatre, Forum Theatre, the Cop in the Head/Rainbow of Desire techniques, as well as developing facilitation skills for bringing this work outside the workshop and into other areas of our lives.

TO PRE-REGISTER, call Philadelphia Theatre of the Oppressed at 215-730-0982, or email: tophilly@gmail.com

See http://tophiladelphia.blogspot.com for more info.

Friday, April 22nd, 7:30-10pm
“Ends With A Zero”
Birthday party, vegan potluck, music and games
for our friend Morgan

Studio 34′s own yoga teacher/theatre workshop facilitator/event organizer/vegan bruncheonette co-host is turning an entire decade older in one night—to an age ending with the number “zero”. Come celebrate with Morgan, whether you know him super well or you’ve just seen him in class. Bring some vegan sweets or savories to share, sober beverages to drink, group games to play and/or songs to sing with neighbors and friends, new and old!

Reiki for Animals
Wednesday, April 20th
6:00pm-7:30pm
Investment: Sliding scale $10-$20

This workshop is especially designed for Reiki practitioners who are interested in working with animals. This workshop will cover the benefits of Reiki for animals, ethics, animal chakras, and how to work with animals, and will include a live demonstration with the lovely doggie assistant, Hope. We will also talk about Animal Reiki volunteer opportunities in the city and how to start your own volunteer Reiki team for shelters outside the city. For information on the instructor, visit http://www.wolfstarreiki.abmp.com

Reiki Level 1 condensed weekend workshop (Usui Shiki Ryoho) @ Studio 34
April 2nd, 1pm – 4pm, Conference Room
April 3rd, 10am – 2pm, Conference Room
Cost: Sliding scale $225 – $325 (includes manual, training & certificate)

Pre-registration required: $50 non-refundable deposit due at time of enrollment. Balance due April 2nd. Reserve your space now by emailing Melissa at melissa.ameika@gmail.com or via phone 215.906.9441 (paypal invoicing available for your convenience)

When we heal ourselves we heal the world. Learn Reiki, the gentle healing touch from Japan, to help yourself and others! This condensed weekend course is now available to accommodate those who cannot commit to a two or three month class schedule. Students will develop the ability to give Reiki to themselves and others. Curriculum includes all level 1 attunements, history of Reiki and basic understanding of Japanese culture, theories of human energy systems including chakras, Reiki ethics and business.

Motion & Heart: 5Rhythms® ‘Heartbeat’ Workshop
Advanced Workshop on the second level of Gabrielle Roth’s 5Rhythms®: the map for freeing the heart.

Saturday April 2nd
1:30pm-7:30pm

The 5Rhythms® practice enlivens us through conscious movement, and we cannot be alive without feeling. Feelings happen, with or without our consent. They are there to empower and serve us. But their power can overwhelm us so we end up stuck with feelings, or clinging to them, or resisting, repressing or denying them. That saps our vitality and limits our freedom and joy. In this workshop we shall explore some of the ways that feelings shape us and some of the ways they move us when we let them. Above all, we shall give them room to breath and move as we dance them through the 5Rhythms.

We will be ground our explorations in the physical practice of the 5Rhythms® ‘Wave’ and you will need experience of moving through the ‘Wave’ to participate (we recommend a minimum of 12 hours). In this short workshop there will be no time to introduce or demonstrate the 5Rhythms®. 5Rhythms® is not therapy. Use whatever therapeutic support best serves you and allow quiet time on the Sunday to absorb and process what your body finds on the dance floor.

Please feel free to ask Richard any questions you may have: 215-983-7036

Cost: $120 ($135 after March 19th)

Checks payable to Richard Jerram, 217 West Queen Lane, Philadelphia PA 19144

You can also book with Paypal via the MeetUp site: http://www.meetup.com/dance-5Rhythms

StudioSeries
Last Saturdays, 8pm
$6 ($5 w/ dancepass)

The StudioSeries is a monthly informal series curated by Nicole Bindler (with occasional guest curators), featuring experimental performances in all media by some of Philly’s most exciting artists (with some fabulous out of town guests). The StudioSeries is cozy, informal and fun! Come check out the art while it’s raw and in the works. It’s a rare and thrilling opportunity to get a window into the artist’s creative process. Feel free to hang afterwards, meet the artists and chat with them about their performances.

April 30th
Emma Morehouse – dance
Alex Bechtel – theater
PIMA Group – dance / music
Ellen Gerdes – dance / music
Sharon Mansur – dance
Mano Damno / Electric Simcha (TBC) – dance / theater / music

May 28th
Jessica Morgan – dance
Christina Gesualdi – dance
Rebecca Lloyd-Jones – dance
Abigail Levine – dance
Andrew Eisenberg / Joe Burgio – music / dance
Kelly Bond – dance

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

Tuesdays 7:30-8:30pm
March 8 – April 12

Take your hooping to the next level! In Jen Web’s Intermediate Hoop Dancing class series you will learn plenty of hot new moves to spice up your routine. Areas of focus include hooping on the vertical plane, off-body moves, step-throughs and jumps. Increased intensity will keep your heart rate up so you shape up and look your best. Each class will start off with a warm up and then transition into a faced paced section of new moves and combinations.

*Recommended prerequisite: Beginning Hoop Dancing 6-week series or 3 months prior hoop dancing experience.

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

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