Join Master Teacher and Artist Meg Brooker for 2 opportunities to train and learn about Isadora Duncan Technique and Noyes Rhythm Technique:
Sunday, January 11th from 11am-1230pm - Isadora Duncan Technique
Monday, January 12th from 710pm-810pm - Noyes Rhythm Technique (during our Free Community Class)
About Isadora Duncan Technique:
Isadora Duncan created a dance technique featuring dynamic, whole-body movement through space, powered by rhythmic footwork and breath-supported gesture. Inspired by nature, myth, and music, Duncan was both an improviser and a choreographer, leaving a legacy of free expression in dance movement, as well as a repertory of nearly one hundred dances. This class features a contemporary approach to Duncan's early modern dance practice. Participants will experience a full technique class that includes floorwork, standing barre, locomotive exercises, phrasework and improvisation.
About Noyes Rhythm:
Noyes Rhythm is an image-driven, somatic movement practice developed in the early 20th century by dance artist and suffrage-advocate Florence Fleming Noyes. Open to all movers and levels of experience, this class explores how Noyes Rhythm techniques utilize nature imagery to develop strength and coordination and to cultivate resilience. The ultimate purpose of Noyes Rhythm is "creative overflow"-- it is a technique to facilitate inspiration, spontaneity, and joy. Come experience play through expressive movement, imagery, and music.
About Meg Brooker:
Meg Brooker, Professor of Dance and Director of the School of Performing and Visual Arts at The University of Southern Mississippi, is a founder of the Isadora Duncan International Symposium and a former member of Lori Belilove & Company, Isadora Duncan Dance Foundation (NYC). She specializes in the early modern dance techniques developed by Isadora Duncan and Florence Fleming Noyes and presents this work as Artistic Director of Duncan Dance South. Her creative research includes embodied, kinesthetic, and traditional archival methodologies and results in new choreography and performance, often in collaboration with visual artists and musicians. For fifteen years (2005-2019), she traveled and performed extensively in Russia as a legacy Isadora Duncan dancer. Recent credits include featured interviews and dance performance for Season 2: Episode 5 of Io e Lei: Isadora Duncan for SkyArte (Italy). In the Southeast, Meg’s work has been produced by the Hunter Museum of American Art and the Nashville Parthenon. Awards and grants include USM’s Creative Activity Innovation Award, MTSU’s Creative Activity Award, Career Service Award from Women’s and Gender Studies (MTSU), Outstanding Teaching Award from Women and Gender Studies (MTSU), Mississippi Presenters Network, Mississippi Artists Roster, Dancer Laureate (Murfreesboro, TN), Dance Chair for the Hellenic Institute of Cultural Diplomacy, National Endowment for the Humanities grant for the Noyes School of Rhythm Archives, among others. Meg has presented scholarship for Society of Dance History Scholars, Congress on Research in Dance, Dance Studies Association, National Dance Educators Organization, and Women in Dance Leadership. www.duncandancesouth.org.
Photos by Valkyrie Rutledge and provided by Meg Brooker
