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A one-hour beginner Vinyasa yoga that focuses on the foundations of classical Vinyasa flow, emphasizing movement and breath as synchronized experience. Attention to fundamental asana (postures) will prepare students for their flow sequence and is designed to help beginners develop their own practice. Only $5 per class!

Intermediate/Advanced Modern Dance with Katie McNamara // Mondays @ 7-8:30pm // $13 per class; $60 for 6 classes 

This modern dance based class embraces technique, improvisation and composition skills. Participants learn to embody a state of presence and grace. We will focus on moving with efficiency while testing endurance and increasing stamina. This dance practice moves in and out of the floor, upside down to right side up, and from the inside out.

A one-hour beginner Vinyasa yoga that focuses on the foundations of classical Vinyasa flow, emphasizing movement and breath as synchronized experience. Attention to fundamental asana (postures) will prepare students for their flow sequence and is designed to help beginners develop their own practice. Only $5 per class!

Modern Dance For Every Level with Jamie Arnold and Stephanie Turner // Wednesdays @ 6:30-8pm // $13 per class; $60 for 6 classes 

Class begins with a warm-up that incorporates yoga and breathwork with gentle movements of the spine before moving on to phrase material. A series of short phrases will then be explored, where students are encouraged to play and experiment with how his/her individual body prefers to move through the demonstrated movements. The phrases include elements like directional changes, movement through space, spirals, rotation, lines, momentum, energy and floorwork. Movement may carry over from previous classes and blend into the dance material. Each phrase that is developed will lead to a rich and colorful dance toward the end of class.  Jamie Arnold is a certified and licensed Kripalu Yoga guide and dancer working out of Warwick RI and graduate of Rhode Island College with a B.A. in Dance Performance, where she was a member of the Rhode Island College Dance Company. Jamie attended the American Dance Festival in Durham, NC and was in residency at The Dragon’s Egg Studio in Ledyard, CT and has performed in Trisha Brown’s Floor of the Forest at the ICA in Boston and Between Movement Contemporary Dance Company.

Los Angeles Plays Itself, Thom Andersen, 2003, 16mm on DVD, 169 min., color, b&w/sound.

Please join us for a screening of this remarkable and rare feature by filmmaker by Thom Andersen (Get Out of the Car, 2010; Eadweard Muybridge: Zoopraxographer, 1974).

“Los Angeles Plays Itself is a video essay about how movies have portrayed the city of Los Angeles.

The first section (The City as Background) is about buildings and places, famous and obscure, and how they get typecast and transformed by movies.

The second section (The City as Character) considers shifting attitudes toward the city expressed in the work of film-makers who have self-consciously made the city an important presence in their films. It begins with Billy Wilder’sDouble Indemnity, about which Richard Schickel wrote,”You could charge L.A. as a co-conspirator in the crimes this movie relates,” and it ends with Jacques Demy’s Model Shop, in which the protagonist declares,”It’s a fabulous city. To think some people claim it’s an ugly city when it’s really pure poetry, it just kills me.” Along the way, it recalls how movies have documented vanished landmarks and neighborhoods.

The third section (The City as Subject) considers movies that take the city itself as their subject, beginning withChinatown in 1974.

Movies about Los Angeles have been, for the most part, period films, set in the past or in the future, and they replace the public history of the city with a secret history, opaque to its citizens. This urban legend is not innocent. It serves to dissuade naive viewers from political engagement by telling them that they are condemned to ignorance and powerlessness, no matter what they do. In fact, the truth is the opposite: the public history is the real history, as the treatments of Chinatown, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and L.A. Confidential demonstrate.

The notable exceptions to this pattern are some low-budget independent films about ethnic minorities made in the tradition of neorealism, and it is with these that Los Angeles Plays Itself concludes.”
– Thom Andersen

“It may be difficult to detect upon first viewing that Thom Andersen’s Los Angeles Plays Itself is in fact a manifesto, but not every manifesto is written in a torrent of typefaces, categorical statements and exclamation points… By examining the storied history of shooting on location in what may be “the most photographed city in the world,” Los Angeles Plays Itself reveals not only the various attitudes that filmmakers and their films project upon their hometown, but the ideologies contained within each mode of looking. Andersen argues that the most celebrated “films about LA,” including Chinatown, Blade Runner and LA Confidential, are in fact cynical visions of the futility of resistance. Against this entrenched myth of a fallen city forever paying for the sins of its city fathers, he posits an alternative history, one that the movies themselves recorded, if sometimes inadvertently.”
– Madison Brookshire

** Magic Lantern is supported by the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation and the Malcolm S. Forbes Center for Culture and Media Studies at Brown University.

Arkham Film Society: “Where the Dead Go to Die” with Jimmy Screamerclauz

The best improv comedy you can find.
Saturdays at 10:00.
95 Empire
Downtown Providence Rhode Island.
Tickets available at the door for only $5.00.

“Eyeball” by Umberto Lenzi.

A one-hour beginner Vinyasa yoga that focuses on the foundations of classical Vinyasa flow, emphasizing movement and breath as synchronized experience. Attention to fundamental asana (postures) will prepare students for their flow sequence and is designed to help beginners develop their own practice. Only $5 per class!

Modern Dance For Every Level with Jamie Arnold and Stephanie Turner // Wednesdays @ 6:30-8pm // $13 per class; $60 for 6 classes 

Class begins with a warm-up that incorporates yoga and breathwork with gentle movements of the spine before moving on to phrase material. A series of short phrases will then be explored, where students are encouraged to play and experiment with how his/her individual body prefers to move through the demonstrated movements. The phrases include elements like directional changes, movement through space, spirals, rotation, lines, momentum, energy and floorwork. Movement may carry over from previous classes and blend into the dance material. Each phrase that is developed will lead to a rich and colorful dance toward the end of class.  Jamie Arnold is a certified and licensed Kripalu Yoga guide and dancer working out of Warwick RI and graduate of Rhode Island College with a B.A. in Dance Performance, where she was a member of the Rhode Island College Dance Company. Jamie attended the American Dance Festival in Durham, NC and was in residency at The Dragon’s Egg Studio in Ledyard, CT and has performed in Trisha Brown’s Floor of the Forest at the ICA in Boston and Between Movement Contemporary Dance Company.

Flinching Eye Collective is a group of interdisciplinary media artists who’s enclave of work, while disparate, concurrently explores sound-based, interactive performances and video art. The F.E.C. formed in Colorado in 2011. Since June of 2012 we have migrated to different parts of the US. We utilize a touring structure similar to bands, but within the performance art context.  Through this distinctive format we are able to gather interest and excitement from communities, in turn creating an atmosphere of curiosity and enthusiasm as opposed to assumption and apathy. Our exhibitions are multi-faceted, whether they are differing live performances, video, sound pieces, or some hybrid. The presentation of our performance group takes the shape of both collaborative combinations as well as individual works.

Video: http://flinchingeyecollective.com/video

Written & performed by R. Jim Stahl
Directed by Kate  Lohman

In 90 minutes, a funny look at a boy-man’s earnest search for connection and identity. It follows his parents’ breakup in Boston and a boyhood prank that takes his left eye the week of his Bar Mitzvah. He adjusts to monocular life, negotiates his parents’ remarriages, fights a redneck, and tracks an art thief into a Chicago alley. He nearly achieves his three-part ambition: to make proud the King (his Harvard-educated, All-American dad); to win the attention of the Queen (his distracted & beautiful mom), and to honor the gentle Wizard (his herring-eating, Yiddish-speaking grandfather).

Grow up long-haired, short-winded, one-eyed, two-fisted, bar-mitzvahed and unlisted in the finest suburbs from Boston to Miami!  A one-man play. Free workshop performance!

http://nutl.wordpress.com/the-experiment/

Contact Improv with Shura Baryshnikov and Stephanie Turner // first and third Saturday of each month // Class @ 10-11am and Open Jam @ 11-12:30pm // $10 – $15; $15 for both, $10 to join the jam

Contact improvisation is a dance technique in which points of physical contact provide the starting point for exploration through movement improvisation. Class will help you learn the basics of the practice, which includes rolling, falling, being upside down, following a rolling point of contact, supporting and giving weight to a partner. Then you will be ready to join the open jam!

Read more about the class and watch a video here!

The Rhode Island Performance Exchange (RIPE) is pleased to announce their first general auditions for the Rhode Island performance community on Saturday June 1 from 10am to 6pm. The auditions are open to performers of all kinds who wish to be seen by many of Rhode Island’s thriving theatre companies, including representatives from 2nd Story Theatre, Academy Players, AntiGravity Theatre Project, BarPlays, Cleave, Contemporary Theater Company, Counter-Productions Theatre Company, Elemental Theatre Collective, playwright David Eliet, Epic Theatre Company, Footlights Rep, Four Frogs Productions, Mixed Magic Theatre, Ocean State Theatre Company, the Sandra Feinstein Gamm Theatre, Strange Attractor Theatre, Theatre 82, Trinity Repertory Company, The Rhode Island Shakespeare Theatre, and the Wilbury Group.

At this point the auditions are full, but if you are interested in learning more, watching the auditions or participating in future RIPE events, email us at info@riperformance.org.

The best improv comedy you can find.
Saturdays at 10:00.
95 Empire
Downtown Providence Rhode Island.
Tickets available at the door for only $5.00.

Beginner Ballet with Stephanie Albanese // Sundays @ 10:30-11:30am // $13 per class; $60 for 6 classes

If you’ve always wanted to try ballet, this class is for you. In this fundamentals-based class, students develop basic ballet vocabulary, strength and coordination. Stephanie’s deep knowledge of her craft combines with a warm, good-humored manner to create a comfortable yet challenging learning environment. This is the perfect class for people who have little or no ballet experience. Stephanie Albanese is a graduate of The School of American Ballet where she studied with teachers Alexandra Danilova, Helen Dudin, Suki Shorer and Stanley Williams. She danced in a repertory company created by former New York City Ballet member Wilhelmina Frankurt. Stephanie has also danced with choreographers Matthew Brokoff, Marcus Galante, Mary Miller and Felice Lesser and also worked in Cabaret, performing at The Lido in Paris and Jubliee in Las Vegas.

Intermediate Ballet with Stephanie Albanese // Sundays @ 12:00-1:30pm // $13 per class; $60 for 6 classes

This ballet class makes classical dance a joy! The class focuses on fundamentals, beginning with a thorough warm up at the barre and progressing to the center for choreographed combinations.  Students build muscle as they refine body alignment and learn weight placement to develop coordination. Stephanie’s deep knowledge of her craft combines with a warm, good-humored manner to create a comfortable yet challenging learning environment. This is the perfect class for people who have some prior ballet experience. Stephanie Albanese is a graduate of The School of American Ballet where she studied with teachers Alexandra Danilova, Helen Dudin, Suki Shorer and Stanley Williams. She danced in a repertory company created by former New York City Ballet member Wilhelmina Frankurt. Stephanie has also danced with choreographers Matthew Brokoff, Marcus Galante, Mary Miller and Felice Lesser and also worked in Cabaret, performing at The Lido in Paris and Jubliee in Las Vegas.

A one-hour beginner Vinyasa yoga that focuses on the foundations of classical Vinyasa flow, emphasizing movement and breath as synchronized experience. Attention to fundamental asana (postures) will prepare students for their flow sequence and is designed to help beginners develop their own practice. Only $5 per class!

Intermediate/Advanced Modern Dance with Katie McNamara // Mondays @ 7-8:30pm // $13 per class; $60 for 6 classes 

This modern dance based class embraces technique, improvisation and composition skills. Participants learn to embody a state of presence and grace. We will focus on moving with efficiency while testing endurance and increasing stamina. This dance practice moves in and out of the floor, upside down to right side up, and from the inside out.

Jazz/Hip Hop Fusion with Kim Kalunian // Tuesdays @ 6-7pm // $13 per class; $60 for 6 classes

This super-fun class mixes jazz technique with modern hip-hop, the things you see in today’s best music videos and on the hottest concert tours. The 1-hour class starts with a series of jazz-based warm ups that will tone and lengthen your muscles from head to toe. Work your arms, core, buns and thighs, while stretching and lengthening to get long, lean dancer muscles. After we’re warm, each week we’ll learn a new combination to a pop or hip-hop song that new, fresh and current. The dances will blend jazz (think kicks, turns and jumps) with hip-hop (think booty shaking and “twerking”) to result in a fun, cardio workout. All levels welcome!

A one-hour beginner Vinyasa yoga that focuses on the foundations of classical Vinyasa flow, emphasizing movement and breath as synchronized experience. Attention to fundamental asana (postures) will prepare students for their flow sequence and is designed to help beginners develop their own practice. Only $5 per class!

Modern Dance For Every Level with Jamie Arnold and Stephanie Turner // Wednesdays @ 6:30-8pm // $13 per class; $60 for 6 classes 

Class begins with a warm-up that incorporates yoga and breathwork with gentle movements of the spine before moving on to phrase material. A series of short phrases will then be explored, where students are encouraged to play and experiment with how his/her individual body prefers to move through the demonstrated movements. The phrases include elements like directional changes, movement through space, spirals, rotation, lines, momentum, energy and floorwork. Movement may carry over from previous classes and blend into the dance material. Each phrase that is developed will lead to a rich and colorful dance toward the end of class.  Jamie Arnold is a certified and licensed Kripalu Yoga guide and dancer working out of Warwick RI and graduate of Rhode Island College with a B.A. in Dance Performance, where she was a member of the Rhode Island College Dance Company. Jamie attended the American Dance Festival in Durham, NC and was in residency at The Dragon’s Egg Studio in Ledyard, CT and has performed in Trisha Brown’s Floor of the Forest at the ICA in Boston and Between Movement Contemporary Dance Company.

YoBalAtes with Kristen Minsky // Thursdays @ 6-7:30pm // $13 per class; $60 for 6 classes

What with the recent bombings and the subsequent lockdown of an entire city, we at Live Bait have been attempting to come to grips with what it means to be safe. Whether we’re out on the street or in our own domiciles, we are all susceptible to any sort of random (or not so random) accident. We just never know. So we take precautions. We hope for the best, maybe give up some personal liberties. But how much is enough? How much is too much? Perhaps we should talk about this. With this in mind, June’s Live Bait theme is “SAFE AT HOME.”

Of course, we are willing to hear stories about baseball as well. Or, for that matter, any true-life stories that in some way, shape or form fit June’s theme. Just come toLive Bait: True Stories from Real People at the 95 Empire Black Box in Providence, put your name in the fishbowl and, when your name is called, come up and tell your story. Of course, you may also choose to just sit back and listen. We’d love to have you.

Live Bait is a forum for true-life storytelling. No notes, no rants, no stand-up routines, and, please note, there is a six minute time limit. Live Bait is hosted by Phil “The Host” Goldman, with musical accompaniment by Jerry “The Professor” Gregoire.

A night of fluxus and fluxus and fluxus-like fluxus at the Black Box.

The best improv comedy you can find.
Saturdays at 10:00.
95 Empire
Downtown Providence Rhode Island.
Tickets available at the door for only $5.00.

Beginner Ballet with Stephanie Albanese // Sundays @ 10:30-11:30am // $13 per class; $60 for 6 classes

If you’ve always wanted to try ballet, this class is for you. In this fundamentals-based class, students develop basic ballet vocabulary, strength and coordination. Stephanie’s deep knowledge of her craft combines with a warm, good-humored manner to create a comfortable yet challenging learning environment. This is the perfect class for people who have little or no ballet experience. Stephanie Albanese is a graduate of The School of American Ballet where she studied with teachers Alexandra Danilova, Helen Dudin, Suki Shorer and Stanley Williams. She danced in a repertory company created by former New York City Ballet member Wilhelmina Frankurt. Stephanie has also danced with choreographers Matthew Brokoff, Marcus Galante, Mary Miller and Felice Lesser and also worked in Cabaret, performing at The Lido in Paris and Jubliee in Las Vegas.

Intermediate Ballet with Stephanie Albanese // Sundays @ 12:00-1:30pm // $13 per class; $60 for 6 classes

This ballet class makes classical dance a joy! The class focuses on fundamentals, beginning with a thorough warm up at the barre and progressing to the center for choreographed combinations.  Students build muscle as they refine body alignment and learn weight placement to develop coordination. Stephanie’s deep knowledge of her craft combines with a warm, good-humored manner to create a comfortable yet challenging learning environment. This is the perfect class for people who have some prior ballet experience. Stephanie Albanese is a graduate of The School of American Ballet where she studied with teachers Alexandra Danilova, Helen Dudin, Suki Shorer and Stanley Williams. She danced in a repertory company created by former New York City Ballet member Wilhelmina Frankurt. Stephanie has also danced with choreographers Matthew Brokoff, Marcus Galante, Mary Miller and Felice Lesser and also worked in Cabaret, performing at The Lido in Paris and Jubliee in Las Vegas.

A one-hour beginner Vinyasa yoga that focuses on the foundations of classical Vinyasa flow, emphasizing movement and breath as synchronized experience. Attention to fundamental asana (postures) will prepare students for their flow sequence and is designed to help beginners develop their own practice. Only $5 per class!

Intermediate/Advanced Modern Dance with Katie McNamara // Mondays @ 7-8:30pm // $13 per class; $60 for 6 classes 

This modern dance based class embraces technique, improvisation and composition skills. Participants learn to embody a state of presence and grace. We will focus on moving with efficiency while testing endurance and increasing stamina. This dance practice moves in and out of the floor, upside down to right side up, and from the inside out.

Jazz/Hip Hop Fusion with Kim Kalunian // Tuesdays @ 6-7pm // $13 per class; $60 for 6 classes

This super-fun class mixes jazz technique with modern hip-hop, the things you see in today’s best music videos and on the hottest concert tours. The 1-hour class starts with a series of jazz-based warm ups that will tone and lengthen your muscles from head to toe. Work your arms, core, buns and thighs, while stretching and lengthening to get long, lean dancer muscles. After we’re warm, each week we’ll learn a new combination to a pop or hip-hop song that new, fresh and current. The dances will blend jazz (think kicks, turns and jumps) with hip-hop (think booty shaking and “twerking”) to result in a fun, cardio workout. All levels welcome!

A one-hour beginner Vinyasa yoga that focuses on the foundations of classical Vinyasa flow, emphasizing movement and breath as synchronized experience. Attention to fundamental asana (postures) will prepare students for their flow sequence and is designed to help beginners develop their own practice. Only $5 per class!

Modern Dance For Every Level with Jamie Arnold and Stephanie Turner // Wednesdays @ 6:30-8pm // $13 per class; $60 for 6 classes 

Class begins with a warm-up that incorporates yoga and breathwork with gentle movements of the spine before moving on to phrase material. A series of short phrases will then be explored, where students are encouraged to play and experiment with how his/her individual body prefers to move through the demonstrated movements. The phrases include elements like directional changes, movement through space, spirals, rotation, lines, momentum, energy and floorwork. Movement may carry over from previous classes and blend into the dance material. Each phrase that is developed will lead to a rich and colorful dance toward the end of class.  Jamie Arnold is a certified and licensed Kripalu Yoga guide and dancer working out of Warwick RI and graduate of Rhode Island College with a B.A. in Dance Performance, where she was a member of the Rhode Island College Dance Company. Jamie attended the American Dance Festival in Durham, NC and was in residency at The Dragon’s Egg Studio in Ledyard, CT and has performed in Trisha Brown’s Floor of the Forest at the ICA in Boston and Between Movement Contemporary Dance Company.

Caroline Park is a composer, musician, and artist. She performs solo on laptop, and also as a member of the electroacoustic quartet, BUMPR. Caroline has shared the stage with artists such as Evidence, Dollshot, and Arnold Dreyblatt, and has performed at the Stone, AS220, and in Jordan Hall. Solo releases can be found on cassette, CD, and in digital formats via labels Private Chronology, Bathetic Records, VisceralMediaRecords, Pure Potentiality Records and Absence of Max. Her 2011 cassette Adrift was recommended by Steve Smith (Time Out New York) for anyone “interested in long-form, slow-drifting electronic buzz, crackle and drift.” Caroline lives and works in Providence, RI.

Korean Jeans (Neal Markowski / Beth McDonald) first met at the New England Conservatory in Boston, at the musical fringes of the school. Beth was grounded in her training as a classical tuba player, but was drawn into the avant-garde scene of Cage, Zorn, and Nono, with special interest in electroacoustic music. Neal, meanwhile, was raised as a rock/jazz drummer and a noisy composer, influenced strongly by rock musicians like Shellac, the Minutemen, and Flipper, as well as composers like Reich, Lucier, Branca, and so on. Their eclectic influences and diverse training have shaped the work of Korean Jeans, which involves definitively UPPERCASE electroacoustic improvisations; songs, written mainly by Neal; contemporary classical prose pieces; and a collection of rock covers.

The Mobile Library Sketchbook Project is a traveling show of artist’s sketchbook on a three-city tour, stopping in Providence June 13, Providence, Portland and Montreal.  The tour will bring together 2500 creative people from around the world creating the first ever, traveling collection of maps.

YoBalAtes with Kristen Minsky // Thursdays @ 6-7:30pm // $13 per class; $60 for 6 classes

Contact Improv with Shura Baryshnikov and Stephanie Turner // first and third Saturday of each month // Class @ 10-11am and Open Jam @ 11-12:30pm // $10 – $15; $15 for both, $10 to join the jam

Contact improvisation is a dance technique in which points of physical contact provide the starting point for exploration through movement improvisation. Class will help you learn the basics of the practice, which includes rolling, falling, being upside down, following a rolling point of contact, supporting and giving weight to a partner. Then you will be ready to join the open jam!

Read more about the class and watch a video here!

The best improv comedy you can find.
Saturdays at 10:00.
95 Empire
Downtown Providence Rhode Island.
Tickets available at the door for only $5.00.

Beginner Ballet with Stephanie Albanese // Sundays @ 10:30-11:30am // $13 per class; $60 for 6 classes

If you’ve always wanted to try ballet, this class is for you. In this fundamentals-based class, students develop basic ballet vocabulary, strength and coordination. Stephanie’s deep knowledge of her craft combines with a warm, good-humored manner to create a comfortable yet challenging learning environment. This is the perfect class for people who have little or no ballet experience. Stephanie Albanese is a graduate of The School of American Ballet where she studied with teachers Alexandra Danilova, Helen Dudin, Suki Shorer and Stanley Williams. She danced in a repertory company created by former New York City Ballet member Wilhelmina Frankurt. Stephanie has also danced with choreographers Matthew Brokoff, Marcus Galante, Mary Miller and Felice Lesser and also worked in Cabaret, performing at The Lido in Paris and Jubliee in Las Vegas.

Intermediate Ballet with Stephanie Albanese // Sundays @ 12:00-1:30pm // $13 per class; $60 for 6 classes

This ballet class makes classical dance a joy! The class focuses on fundamentals, beginning with a thorough warm up at the barre and progressing to the center for choreographed combinations.  Students build muscle as they refine body alignment and learn weight placement to develop coordination. Stephanie’s deep knowledge of her craft combines with a warm, good-humored manner to create a comfortable yet challenging learning environment. This is the perfect class for people who have some prior ballet experience. Stephanie Albanese is a graduate of The School of American Ballet where she studied with teachers Alexandra Danilova, Helen Dudin, Suki Shorer and Stanley Williams. She danced in a repertory company created by former New York City Ballet member Wilhelmina Frankurt. Stephanie has also danced with choreographers Matthew Brokoff, Marcus Galante, Mary Miller and Felice Lesser and also worked in Cabaret, performing at The Lido in Paris and Jubliee in Las Vegas.

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A one-hour beginner Vinyasa yoga that focuses on the foundations of classical Vinyasa flow, emphasizing movement and breath as synchronized experience. Attention to fundamental asana (postures) will prepare students for their flow sequence and is designed to help beginners develop their own practice. Only $5 per class!

Intermediate/Advanced Modern Dance with Katie McNamara // Mondays @ 7-8:30pm // $13 per class; $60 for 6 classes 

This modern dance based class embraces technique, improvisation and composition skills. Participants learn to embody a state of presence and grace. We will focus on moving with efficiency while testing endurance and increasing stamina. This dance practice moves in and out of the floor, upside down to right side up, and from the inside out.