Hi Dancers,
This Sunday we're going to try meeting at SunMoon Yoga, at 404 West Huron, which is across the road from the Y, set way back.
Click here for a map. The rest of this month will be back at the Phoenix Center, then we'll likely meet more at Sun Moon starting in February.
In other news, Dustin Haug, one of all of our favorite teachers, will be here later this month. He'll teach a 6:30-9PM class in Detroit at the usual place of the Detroit jam on Tuesday Jan 18th, then an 11-1 class before the Ann Arbor jam on Sunday Jan 23rd. He's super fun and energetic. Bio follows. Hope you all can make it!
Dustin Haug is a dance artist and educator currently living in Minneapolis, MN. He studied art, dance, and chemistry at St. Olaf College in Northfield, MN and graduated magna cum luade in 2000 with a BA in Studio Art. That same fall, he moved to Seattle, WA and pursued a brief landscaping career before returning to school in Olympia, WA at The Evergreen State College in 2002, graduating in 2004 with a Master In Teaching degree. Also in 2002, he began working with KT Niehoff and her company, Lingo dancetheater. Dustin's first gig with Lingo took him to Jacob's Pillow to perform Attracted to Accidents for the Inside/Out festival. He then created and performed in three evening-length works with the company: Speak to Me (2003), Relatively Real (2005), and Inhabit (2007), touring to many different points on the map, including California, Florida, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Tennessee, Washington and internationally to Vancouver, Canada and Dusseldorf, Germany. In addition to his work with KT Niehoff and Lingo dancetheater, Dustin performed in the work of other Seattle-based artists such as Paige Barnes (Nothing Better, 2004), Pablo Cornejo (Piedra del Sol, 2002), Veronica Lee (Northwest New Works, 2002), and Amy O'Niel (The Bridge Project, 2002). From 2006 – 2007, Dustin created his own original performance work with the dance, music, and video collective, Paige Barnes and the Grizzlies. With this group, he organized a number of improvisational installations (Real Time Comic, 2006 – 2007) as well as two versions of the set work, Stenephobia: the fear of narrow spaces (2006 and 2007).
In the summer of 2007, Dustin moved back home to Minnesota and started performing and teaching dance with his partner, Tamin Totzke. VESSEL, their collaborative codename, produces set, improvised, and site-specific choreography and has since shown work locally in Minneapolis at such venues as the Bottling House Theater, Bryant Lake Bowl Theater, Patrick's Cabaret, The Ritz, Walker Art Center, and Zenon Dance School. VESSEL has also toured nationally to Berkeley, CA; Decorah, IA; Earthdance, MA; Seattle, WA; and Madison, WI. Dustin has also taught contact improvisation at such events as the Great Lakes Area Contact Improvisation Enthusiasts Retreat, Willard, WI (2008 - 2010), SEEDS Festival (2009) and Ground Research (2010) at Earthdance, MA, and West Coast Contact Improvisation Festival, Berkely, CA (2009 and 2010).
Dustin currently teaches Intermediate Modern at Zenon Dance School, organizes the weekly contact improvisation jam, and brings in guest teachers for weekend workshops. He has taught since September 2008 at St. Paul Convservatory for Performing Artists, a public charter school for grades 9 - 12 in St. Paul, MN. Dustin looks forward to continue teaching students of dance and chemistry during the 2010 – 2011 school year.
