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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.

Workshop Series: The Rainbow of Desire
7 Mondays • November 7-December 19 • 7:30-9:30 p.m.
Tuition: $55-$135 sliding scale • no one turned away.

To pre-register email tophilly@gmail.com
or call 215-730-0982

THE RAINBOW OF DESIRE is a family of theatrical techniques developed by Augusto Boal, founder of the Theatre of the Oppressed. Called “the Boal method of theatre and therapy,” the Rainbow of Desire replays situations from our everyday lives and reveals invisible elements of our relationships, such as emotions, mental obstacles (a.k.a. “Cops in the Head”) and desires that may be of hindrance or of help. Each session will begin with theatrical games that develop the theatrical vocabulary and build group dynamics, then we’ll move into sharing stories, choosing one to be acted out. From here, the Rainbow of Desire goes beyond the goal of helping us “get over” our past experiences; as in all branches of Theatre of the Oppressed, these workshops strive to vanquish ongoing oppressions, transforming individuals, relationships and society as a whole.

Please pre-register for this 7-week series by emailing tophilly@gmail.com or calling 215-730-0982. No prior experience is necessary, though to get a taste of what we’ll be doing, you are invited to come to the Cop in the Head performance on October 14th, as well as our Games classes on October 17th and 24th.

Kids Yoga Class Series
with Lily

Six-Week Series – $60
(no class 10/31)
Drop-ins are welcome for this series!

Mondays 3:45-4:30 (ages 4-6)
In this fun-filled class, kids explore breathing exercises, games, poses and relaxation. They are introduced to communication skills in a playful, inspiring style to support themselves, their classmates, and their families. Class ends with relaxation to send kids home renewed and replenished.

Mondays 4:45-5:30 (ages 7-12)
Students explore ways to maintain balance in both their minds and bodies in this interactive, fun class. They learn how yoga can influence other aspects of life by
building emotional intelligence, boosting self esteem, and inviting challenge through group and partner activities. This is an engaging, inspiring class that includes breathing exercises, games, poses and relaxation.

Slide Presentation:
Sri Lanka: A Journey in Images
Sunday, October 16
7:00 pm
Suggested Donation: $5

This island nation, so close to southeastern India, has its own distinct character and culture. Healing from 26 years of civil war, and devastation wrought by the tsunami of 2004, Sri Lanka welcomes visitors to experience its treasures.

Join travel photographer Margie Politzer on a visual journey to a land with vibrant culture, misty mountain towns, Buddhist cave temples, and white sandy beaches. Hear about history, present-day issues, and day-to-day travel experiences in this captivating country.

“Clothe Yourself in Righteousness”
Release Party
Sunday, October 2
8:00pm – 10:00pm
$10 suggested donation

With the Spirit as their guide, Jon Watts and Maggie Harrison set out in 2010-2011 to bring their ministry of nakedness into an appropriately authentic public format. For Maggie, that meant exploring old texts over long hours in various Quaker libraries, exploring Nakedness in her own spiritual life, and writing a devotional pamphlet.

For Jon, it meant searching himself and engaging with his muse to write the songs for an album, always asking “what canst thou say?”, with the underlying intention of radical authenticity… or nakedness.

For both Maggie and Jon, the work was difficult. The transformation was real. The product is inspired… and they’re done! Let’s celebrate!

The project is to be released this Friday, Sept 23rd on the internet:

www.ClotheYourselfinRighteousness.com

…and in Philadelphia on the 2nd of October. Come. Hear some music. Talk about nakedness. Yes.

$10 suggested donation gets you a CD and a Pamphlet (valued normally at twice that). Can’t beat that.

Studio 34 Presents: Sweet Sound of Music
Special Small Houses CD Release Show with Super Special Guests Hezekiah Jones and Chris Bathgate
Saturday, October 22 @ 7:30p
Doors at 7p. Music will begin promptly at 7:30p! Arrive on time, you’ll not want to miss a thing!
$10 Suggested Donation ~ Hot Cider, Sweet Teas and Simple Syrup Spritzers on us!

We are incredibly excited to host the return of Small Houses to Philadelphia! And the return of Small Houses and Hezekiah Jones to Studio 34!

This will be a special Small Houses Philly CD release show. Last year Small Houses and Hezekiah Jones came together at Studio 34 to create a magical evening of music infused sweet melodies and the warm vibes of cozy music-lovers stretched out on pillows and couches. If you missed it then, be sure to not miss out this time around. If you made it to their last show, we know you’ll make it back.

Small Houses

Small Houses is a Michigan-based indie/folk project featuring the songs and poems of Flint native Jeremy Quentin. Artfully crafted finger-style guitar playing, and softly sung melodies describing the people, love, and homes of Quentin’s life.

“This band ‘Small Houses’ is a new ’Top Discovery’ for 2011. These songs are the handiwork
of gorgeous—yet simple— arrangements, skillfully played and sung. If you love beauty and have a need for a respite from the general cacophony of life, check out ‘Small Houses’.” – Heroes of Indie Music

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)

Chris Bathgate

Chris Bathgate is an American singer/songwriter originally born in rural Iowa, raised in rural Illinois, and currently residing in Pinckney, Michigan. He began drawing attention as a solo artist in 2005 upon the release of his first album, Silence is for Suckers, after a slew of self-produced EPs / Singles and a stint in the short-lived (but much loved) group The Descent of the Holy Ghost Church. Chris has gone on to produce many EPs and 4 albums, most recently “Salt Year”.

“A skilled purveyor of lovely gloom…If Bathgate has mastered one thing in his young and enormously promising career, it’s the art of distilling alienation into bruised-sounding beauty.”
-Stephen Thompson, NPR – January, 2008

wResting: a blues geneaolgy, a root system lullaby*

Saturday, September 24
6:00pm

-and-

Sunday, September 25
7:30pm

Admission: Free

*a Fatimah Loren blues performance
on finding her ancestors through the traces they’ve left behind
Funded by the Leeway Foundation

–
Fatimah Lorén
Vocalist. Writer. Educator.
FatimahLoren.com

Biodanza with Michelle
dances of vitality & joy
Saturday August 27th 2 to 5pm
Friday September 23rd 6-9pm

$30 per individual/ $40 if you come with a friend new to Biodanza and/or partner/spouse
Please go to www.paypal.com and use “biodanzaeastcoast@gmail.com” as the account email to pay for the service.

Biodanza-Rolando Toro System is a profound worldwide system of expressive movement for all ages. This class will be for 18+. With no choreography in bare feet, Biodanza is a fun and creative way to reconnect with yourself and others in authentic movement to great organic music. Michelle Dubreuil Macek will be returning to Studio 34 from the Maryland/DC area to facilitate Biodanza monthly beginning in September. Come dance with life!

www.biodanza-usa.com
biodanzaeastcoast@gmail.com
Facebook: Biodanza East Coast USA

Funtown and Studio 34 present…

Beginning Hoop Dancing | 6-Week Class Series with Jen Web

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 visit:
http://www.funtownproductions.com