Skinner Releasing Technique
and state of being

Movement practice incorporating principles of the Skinner Releasing technique as well as other related experiential movement strategies, scores, and systems.

The Skinner Releasing Technique (SRT) is a dynamic approach to the cultivation of an articulate, flexible, and integrated physicality and state of being. Although it began as a dance practice, it’s process and aims are relevant to anyone engaged in activities that require articulation, strength, spontaneity, sensitivity, fluidity, stamina, and concentration. SRT is based on principles of economy of movement, multi-directional/multi-dimensional balance, with no assumption of a single fixed center of gravity. With an emphasis on releasing excess tension and tapping into one’s innate strength rather than force, the class includes the use of guided poetic imagery, and tactile and movement studies alone and with a partner. This workshop comprises the first week in the SRT Foundational training.

Interview with DD Dorvillier
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DD Dorvillier
DD Dorvillier is a choreographer, performer, and teacher, living in New York City since 1989. Her work has been shown in venues such as The Kitchen, PS122, and Danspace Project in NYC, as well as internationally in Australia, Spain, France, Austria, Japan, and Russia. She has been teaching SRT worldwide since 1995, as well her own approach to choreography and physical training. She is a double Bessie Award winner (Dressed for Floating, 2002), and a 2007 recipient of the prestigious Foundation for Contemporary Arts Fellowship. She has worked with Jennifer Monson, Jennifer Lacey, Sarah Michelson, Yvonne Meier, Karen Finley, Alain Buffard, Jan Ritsema, and Pavol Lishka, among others. In 2008/09 she will perform in Parades & Changes, replays, a reconstruction of Anna Halprin’s seminal Parades & Changes (1965), initiated by choreographer Anne Collod in collaboration with Anna Halprin. This year as well she will perform in Jennifer Lacey and Nadia Lauro’s Les Asistantes. She is the Artistic Mentor of the 2008 danceWEB Europe Scholarship Program at ImPulsTanz.