Taking Class

So they do let Mama out once in awhile and tonight I was privileged to spend an hour and a half basking in the energy of the powerful Mr. Eric Handman. What more is there to say. His pedagogy is excellent not to mention that he approaches dance with a style and intellectual curiosity that never feels old. Movement seems new and fresh to him every time and he offers the material to his students in a way that says, "There is so much in here for you, and together we can unlock the secrets."

Big and embracing. The potential the body has for expression seems to know few bounds in his approach to movement. The form or technique is a skeleton to hang real people and real bodies in motion on. Never one to get caught up in what it's "supposed" to look like, he takes the known, programmed and the disciplined and asks the dancers to bring themselves.

What more could one ask for in art?