Klein Technique™ Stretch and Placement Sunday Classes at Siobhan Davies Studios – Autumn Term 2023
Multiple dates and times
Siobhan Davies Studios, SE1 6ER
Description
In-Person Klein Technique™
Stretch and Placement Classes
at Siobhan Davies Studios
Autumn Term 2023
17 September – 17 December (12 weeks)
TIMETABLE
Sundays
17 September – 17 December 2023
3:15-5:00 pm
There will be NO class on Sunday 1 October nor Sunday 12 November
PRICE
Block of 12 classes* (whole term), 17 September-17 December
£140/£110 concessions
Block of 5 classes*
£65 / £50 concessions
Single classes**
£15 / £13 concessions
* The blocks of 5 and 12 classes are valid for the Autumn Term 2023 only, 17 September – 17 December 2023. After booking a block of 5, attendance during the term has to be confirmed in advance by contacting aydelafe@gmail.com. If unable to attend, bookings can be moved to a different date within the same term, subject to availability. Alternatively, bookings can be moved to the Wednesday morning classes at TripSpace (20 September – 13 December 2023), subject to availability.
** Single classes need to be booked in advance. Bookings for each class will be open up to 15 minutes before each class starts (3:00 pm).
ALL LEVELS WELCOME
For questions about Klein Technique™ and about these classes, please email aydelafe@gmail.com
CLASS DESCRIPTION
Klein Technique™ is a process-based system of work through which the body is analysed and understood in order to improve and further movement potential, decrease the occurrence of injuries and support the healing process. The technique was developed by Susan Klein in the early ’80s and has been studied and used by an entire generation of dancers and choreographers, including Trisha Brown, Sasha Waltz and members of their companies. Susan Klein, along with the certified teachers and those working to become certified, is always looking at the body in stillness and in motion to create new ways to explore it and to amplify its capacity to create greater efficiency and therefore greater ease of movement and expanded movement choices. In the Stretch and Placement classes, we will work slowly, thoughtfully and deliberately; we will work in order to find and improve the body’s connections on the level of the bone; and we will learn to use the deep muscles of postural support (the psoas, the hamstrings, the external hip rotators and the pelvic floor) to integrate our bodies and improve our dynamic posture thus finding more effective ways of moving, dancing and choreographing. “The purpose of Klein Technique™ is education, not on the superficial level of mimicking form, but on a profoundly deep level of understanding the full use of the body as an integral whole to maximize the function of each individual’s unique movement potential. Working from the bones allows one to work from their unique identity, to dance and choreograph from their unique essential self.” (Susan Klein, 2018) The best way to understand what Klein Technique™ is is to experience it first-hand. If you’d like to read more about it you can check what Susan Klein says about the technique at the Klein Technique™ website.
TEACHER: A DE LA FE
A is a London-based choreographer and performer with a background in physiotherapy and Pilates. They took their first Klein Technique™ workshop with Susan Klein in 2010 and since then they have studied regularly with her. A joined the fourth Klein Technique™ Teacher Certification Program in March 2016, taking place between New York and Europe, and in June 2019 they became certified as a Klein Technique™ teacher. A has been influenced by this work since their first encounter with it. They have applied the concepts and principles of Klein Technique™ to their own practice and to teaching dance. Since the summer of 2018, A has been regularly teaching Stretch and Placement classes in London.
Location
Siobhan Davies Studios, SE1 6ER