Greetings, friends!

Whether you’re a past student, current student or a newbie to Cardio~Fusion, please join me!

Cardio~Fusion: Where we participate in basic ballroom dance steps like the Cha Cha, Salsa and the Jive to artists like Cee Lo, Sade’ and P!nk! This class is so much fun it doesn’t feel like exercise! Ideal for all levels.

WHEN/WHERE: Cardio~Fusion classes are normally held on 2 Saturdays a month at Core in downtown Decatur Square! 

COST:                                                   Free with a Testimonial

Regular Price:                                       $15.00 per class/student                                           

WHAT TO BRING: Bottled water and a towel (to dab sweat)

PARKING/HOW TO GET THERE:

Please allow ample amount of time to look for parking, park, pay for parking (if applicable) and to walk to the studio. There is street parking, as well as, paid parking all around Core Studios. If you park a couple of blocks down you can usually find free parking on residential back roads. Pay extra attention to the street signs before you leave your car.

From the BACK of Core, you’ll see Chick Fil-A across the street and the Dekalb Courthouse across the street. Core Studios is to the left of Waffle House/Eddie’s Attic and to the right of a Law Firm. You’ll see Core painted in white and red on the wall at the very back of the parking lot. Please enter through this door.

We are located on the 2nd floor and the entrance is around the back of the building. From the FRONT of Core, you’ll see Cakes and Ale at the end and the studio is in between Raging Burrito and Sushi Avenue on that same side (please walk around to the back of the building to enter).

OR

I highly suggest MARTA, it’s SMARTA!

Core Dance Studios is located right at the Decatur MARTA Train Station.

Taking the Blue Line, exit at the Decatur Train Station and you’re right here!

If you have any questions or if you would like to know about future classes, please contact Liz at: 725-333-4913 or at customchoreography@gmail.com.

Please Note: Due to preparing for and teaching this class, I cannot take texts or phone calls any later than an hour prior to the start of class. Thank you for your cooperation.

Hope to see you there!

Liz

Custom Choreography

www.customchoreography.com

IG and Twitter handle: @Luv2Choreograph

Saturday, November 17^th at 1pm & 3pm. FREE open to the public. Free on-site parking.

The performance, set against the backdrop of Zanele Muholi’s stunning exhibition Somnyama Ngonyama: Hail the Dark Lioness, features a new work by SDT Director and dance faculty member Kathleen Wessel as well as a re-staging of T. Lang’s 2008 masterwork JIG by original cast member Morgan Hawkins, C’2010. Following a semester of faculty mentorship and peer feedback, Thulani Vereen C’2020 and domestic exchange student Summer K. Thomas will unveil new group works. Aquilah Ohemeng, and Veronica Ramsey, both students in Professor Wessel’s Choreographic Process I class, will present solos they created in collaboration with Professor Sharan Strange’s Poetry Writing Workshop I class. The works include a new poem by Maghan Baptiste and a live poetry reading by Eliamani Ismail.

Vereen, a Computer Science major, is using the 3D printer and a programmable LED screen in Spelman’s Innovation Lab to create wearable gloves that project images onto the dancers’ palms. Part of her work, set to a live recording of Louis Armstrong’s “What a Wonderful World,” features holographic globes the dancers can hold and manipulate as they move. Wessel’s work, which was inspired by research into lawsuits filed by female game show models on The Price is Right, often called “Barker’s Beauties,” explores themes of external show(wo)manship and internal unrest in connection to a perceived Spelman-centric concept of “perfection performed.”

About JIG: Puzzle-lovers will sit for hours in front of a box of hundreds of pieces. When separate, the pieces have no meaning. But the puzzler will not rest until all the edges, angular or smooth, fit in a way that makes sense and the larger picture is understood. JIG explores the puzzling effect of relationships; one cannot see at a glance whether an angle or a curve will match… but when they do, beauty is revealed. Through the juxtaposition of linear and curved movement (as well as energy, space, and time), JIG examines intimacy in all its brilliance and tragedy.

Photo credit: Alan Kimara Dixon

WITH FLYING COLORS:
Elevated states of Body, Mind & Spirit in Contact Improv

WEEKEND WORKSHOP w/ MOTI ZEMELMAN
November 17-18, 1 – 5pm
WHERE: CORE Studios, 139 Sycamore St. Decatur, GA

INFO: moti@contactimprov.com or call 413-475-2651
REGISTRATION: www.contactimprov.com/atlantaworkshop.html

In this Autumn Contact Improv workshop we’ll explore lifts, weight-sharing and the dynamics of flight – feeling both the physical and emotional security necessary to soar. Learn to develop more comfort with heights, being upside-down, and using momentum through the air. Learn to communicate and distinguish between enthusiastic consent and “grin and bear it” body language. Learn to de-cypher subtle invitations to lift or be lifted and feel the authentic “yes” or “No”. To be heard is a basic human need. True listening in the dance and in life requires 100% of our attention. Learn to listen with your whole self. Trusting partners in lifts builds intimacy and so as we get “high” with each other we deepen our connections.

SLIDING SCALE COST:
$110 -150 (pre-registration)
$125 – 150 (at the door)
Single Saturday option $60 – 75

Registration/Payment Options:
1. To pay by Credit Card call Moti at (413) 475-2651
2. Or Send a check to:
Moti Zemelman
15 School St. #107
Montague, MA 01351
3. Or Pay by paypal to: moti@contactimprov.com

MOTI ZEMELMAN, MFA
As your host and teacher I bring 30 years of CI experience to share. Based in Montague MA, I have taught and performed across USA, Canada, Costa Rica, Mexico, Europe and Israel. Over the last 10 years in my desire to integrate communication and intimacy skills in teaching and life I have studied Non-violent communication, Tantra, Butoh, Byron Katie’s “The Work” and most recently Betty Martin’s “Wheel of Consent”. I have been both a teacher and a board member at Earthdance Retreat Center in Plainfield, MA where I currently direct the Touch&Play Festival. I am a featured dancer in Sanford Lewis’ documentary film about CI “An Intimate Dance.” I also design and moderate the international Contact Improv resource website www.contactimprov.com.

INFO: moti@contactimprov.com or call 413-475-2651
REGISTRATION: www.contactimprov.com/atlantaworkshop.html

RTMD Open Classes:

Mondays 7 pm, Wednesdays 7:45 pm & Saturdays 1:15 pm

Room To Move Dance is a contemporary modern dance company. Our classes have a foundation in Hawkins technique with an emphasis on stretch and alignment work. All levels (dancers, non-dancers, movers…) are welcome. Classes are held in Studio B and are open and free.

Please go to our Facebook and Instagram pages @roomtomovedance for real-time class schedule updates. See you in class!

Refuge Dance Company holds open company class every Saturday, except for the last Saturday of the month, from 1:30-3:00 at Refuge Dance Academy. Class is free of charge.

See Atlanta Ballet 2 take the stage in the Center Plaza at The Shops Buckhead again this year for a FREE public performance!

This event is free and open to the public. No tickets or purchases necessary.