Photo by Peggy Kaplan
WALLY CARDONA
USA
Klein technique, laboratory
Wally Cardona is a choreographer, dancer and teacher based in Brooklyn, New York. He is equally interested in experiences that are direct and intimate as well as indirect and conceptual. This is reflected in everything he does, especially his teaching, dancing and choreographing. Originally from California and New Mexico, he was a competitive gymnast and clarinetist before moving to New York City to study dance at The Juilliard School. The creator of works for his company, Wally Cardona Quartet, and other companies, Cardona is the recipient of a 2006 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in choreography and a 2006 New York Dance and Performance ("Bessie") Award for creation.
Technique as Process
These classes begin by looking at the human body in its natural state and how it moves in relationship to the ground and out into space. It starts from the premise that how we move through the world is how we dance and vice versa, with one affecting the other. Simple mechanics are studied and clarified through a physical practice that steers clear of aesthetic judgments, dance genres or styles. The goal is to help one discover his/her own potential. Cardona’s teaching is greatly influenced by his 20 years of study with Susan Klein and Barbara Mahler and the technique developed by Klein and Mahler is introduced and utilized in each class.
Performance/Phenomenon: Theory & Philosophy into Physical Practice
The primary aim of this class is to consider performance and composition from alternate viewpoints, including performer, creator, viewer, and thinker. It takes a number of experimental approaches and emphasizes experience-based learning (learning by doing). Devised to be an active laboratory, everything will be processed through physical practice, observation, evaluation and oral feedback, with each person’s body being the primary experiment. We will question what it is to move from a "natural" state to one of "performance" as conceptual frameworks involving time, space, place and the body are introduced.
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