AUGUST WORKSHOPS

ONE DAY MANTON Workshop
Aug 14th
10-12p fee $40

 
Multi Level Workshop/ Principals of Flamenco
Each session we will focus on a particular principal and then apply it to a given flamenco form/"palo".

Aug 20th 6:30-7:30 arms

              7:30-8:30 Letra por Tientos

Aug 21st 10-11a turns

              11-12 falsetta por Alegrias

Aug 22nd 10-11a feet

               11-12p escovilla por Tangos

3 days $100

3 classes technique only $60

Drop in $22

Workshop Bulerias por Fiesta

Team Taught by  Patty Ortega and Wendy Clinard

Come participate in this unique opportunity to integrate your flamenco studies. By way of cante and baile, students will learn a few marking steps,cambios, remates, and llamdas. We will then apply the "paseos" to various bulerias letras and estribillos. We will teach the structure as well as the "flexibility or improvisation" around the structure.

August 21st 12:30-2:30p Fee $40
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Why Is The Sun So Bright?
Open Spaces and Clinard Dance Theatre

Clinard Dance Theatre offers flamenco instruction as well as builds original dance theatre. This summer thanks to a generous grant from the Richard Driehaus Foundation we liken our studio location at 18^th and Halsted to the hub of a wheel. From this hub we make our way outward; north, south, east and west to share our art in our community parks.

After researching the history of our parks we tried to make connections to our community and what Clinard Dance practices.

We made connections by integrating the art of flamenco into the park’s landscapes. For example, Dvork Park’s baseball diamond becomes a bull’s ring, bikes via sculptural constructions become bulls and dancers matadors.

We also invited a muralist, from the rich Pilsen tradition, to draw our performance at Harrison Park. The show at Ping Tom Memorial will be drawn by a Chinese ink painter. A guest violinist will play a piece by Czech composer Anton Dvork to whom the park was originally named honoring the Bohemian population in the early 1900’s.

Why is the sun so bright? Because it pays attention and does all its homework. Playfully we challenge sublime nature as we integrate parodies via the use of jokes about nature. For example at Sterns Quarry we will use bull horns to tell knock knock jokes across the quarry pond. Flamenco singers will stroll the park pre show conversing with the birds and crickets in the tall prairie grass of Sterns Quarry.

In addition we will share random bits of natural and human histories about the parks. For example, did you know that Sterns Quarry was once an ancient coral reef dating back to the Silurian age 400 million years ago. Dolomite limestone formed, and fossils that were found there are now in the collections of several area museums including Field Museum of Natural History.

Clinard Dance feels it is a gift to have open spaces and art for our communities; both help us breath and process our personal stories. We won’t be around as long as the limestone at the quarry but we can marvel at our stay here on Mother Earth, Illinois, Chicago, Pilsen, Bridgeport, Chinatown and little dance studios.

Harrison Park JULY 20th 7p
1824 S. Wood St. 

Ping Tom Memorial Park JULY 27th 7p
300 W. 19th St

Dvorak Park AUG 03rd 2P
1119 W. Cullerton St.

Stearns Quarry Park (Park No. 531) Aug 10th 7p
2700 S. Halsted

Join our free community class on Saturday August 14^th from 2 til 3:30p at 1747 S. Halsted in conjunction w summer park series.
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Wendy Clinard is a soloist w/ The Guitars of Spain, check out a performance this summer:
MILLENNIUM PARK "FAMILY FUN SERIES"
Wednesday August 11th, 2010 1PM FREE    

August Schedule
classes start August 2-25th

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1 hour class $60.00 1.5 hour class $72.00 Combo Class $110.00

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