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What not to miss this semester!
Music Improvisation Workshop with Ken Field
TEENS & ADULTS: Thursday, March 27 • 6–8 pm • Ken Field • $20 • Limit: 15 • Amy E. Tarrant Gallery, Flynn Center
Composer and saxophonist Ken Field is acclaimed for his work with Birdsongs of the
Mesozoic, Revolutionary Snake Ensemble, Bridgman/Packer Dance, and Sesame
Street! This workshop for intermediate and advanced students of music will explore
rhythmic repetition vs. variation, tonality vs. atonality, simultaneous contrapuntal
improvisation, and other aspects of modern groove-based improv performance. Bring your instrument!
The Moving Voice with Robert Een
TEENS & ADULTS: Saturday, March 29 • 10–11:30 am • Robert Een • $20 • Limit: 15 • Hoehl Studio Lab, third floor
An experiential investigation of the voice as it relates to our resonant, physical body, this workshop
explores the primal qualities of the voice and how it interfaces with breath, anatomy, and the space
around us. Een, a critically acclaimed composer, singer, and cellist who has won both Bessie (The New
York Dance and Performance Award) and Obie awards, values all possible sounds emitted by the
human voice in his physical approach to singing.
Hands-On Frame Drum Workshop with Glen Velez
TEENS & ADULTS: Saturday, March 29 • 10:30 am–12 pm • Glen Velez • $20 • Limit: 15 • FlynnSpace
Learn how to play the North African tar drum using simple drum language and Arabic rhythms
from Grammy winner Glen Velez, whose unique style of drumming is derived from South Indian, Central
Asian, Arabic, and South Italian traditions. An easy and fun approach to community drumming, this
workshop will also explore "Overtone Singing," an ancient use of the voice that allows one person to
sing two or more notes. No experience necessary. Drums provided.
PLUS . . .
Partnering Dance Workshop with Bridgman / Packer
TEENS & ADULTS: Saturday, March 29, 11 am-1 pm • Art Bridgman &
Myrna Packer • $25 • Limit: 20 • Location TBA
"Myrna Packer and Art Bridgman are unusually deft and magnetic performers... Their dancing is at once suave, powerful, controlled, loose, and incisive," says the Washington Post. Learn their unique approach to partnering in this non-gender specific workshop, emphasizing
release, ease, and strength. All levels welcome to build exhilarating and risk-taking trios and
group forms of partnering. Participants need not come with a partner.
Links to MainStage performance: Bridgman / Packer Dance • Friday, March 28 • 8 pm
Our music program offers a variety of vocal and instrumental classes, and serves our widest range of ages—from young infants to veteran learners. Early music classes enhance children’s natural creative impulses and help develop concentration, coordination, and cooperation. Classes for older children and adults combine individual attention with ensemble work, broaden students’ musical knowledge and performance skills, and introduce like-minded friends who often play and sing together for years to come! Masterclasses with visiting artists and discounts on world-class Flynn Center presentations further enhance the program.
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