Here is the website - enjoy! http://www.merce.org/studio.html <x-html><!x-stuff-for-pete base="http://www.merce.org/studio.html" src="http://www.merce.org/studio.html" id="0"> <html> <head> <title>Studio</title> </head> <BODY BGCOLOR="ffffff" text="#333333" link="#0000ff" vlink="#cc 66 00" alink="#00 99 ff"> <!-- Graphic Tag --> <IMG ALT="[studio]" SRC="studio.gif"> <BLOCKQUOTE><font size=4><IMG ALT="Quote" ALIGN=BOTTOM SRC="quotationsL.gif"> Since the dancer works with the body -- the strongest, and, at the same instant the most fragile of instruments -- the necessity to organize and understand its way of moving is urgent. Dance technique is the disciplining of one's energies through physical action in order to free that energy at the desired instant. For the disciplined energy of the dancer is the life-energy magnified and focused for whatever brief fraction of time it lasts. The most essential thing in dance education is devotion, the steadfast and willing dedication to the time that makes the classwork not a gymnastic hour and a half, or at the lowest level, a daily drudgery, but a devotion that allows the classroom period to be moments of dancing too. The daily workout, the continued keeping of the elasticity of the muscles, the constant control of the mind over the body's actions, both new and renewed is not a natural way. It is unnatural in its demands on all the sources of energy. But the final synthesis can be a natural result, natural in the sense that the mind, body and spirit function as one. The technical aim is not to do a few or many things spectacularly, but to do whatever is done, well. Not to show off, but to show; not to exhibit, but to transmit the qualities of the human spirit through the disciplined action of the human body. The effort of controlling the body is not learned and then ignored as something secure, but must and does go on as breathing does, renewing daily the old experiences and searching for new ones. Each new movement experience, engendered by a previous one, or an impress of the action of the body upon time, must be discovered, felt and made meaningful to its fullest in order to enrich the dance memory. <P> One does not have to have studied in order to dance. It is given to all of us. But for the professional dancer, an awareness of the physical mechanism is useful to maintain that amplification of energy that gives to the dance the quality that makes it, at its best, a moving image of life.<IMG ALT="Quote" ALIGN=RIGHT SRC="quotationsR.gif"> </font><P><BR> <HR SIZE=3> <H2>STUDIO</H2> <UL> <H3> <LI><A HREF="studio_schedule.html">Daily Class Schedule</A><P> <LI><A HREF="studio_handbook.html">Student Handbook</A><P> <LI><A HREF="studio_upcomingevents.html">Upcoming Events</A><P> </H3> </UL> <BR> <P> <B>MERCE CUNNINGHAM STUDIO<BR> 55 BETHUNE ST<BR> NEW YORK, NY<BR> 10014<BR> (212) 691-9751 ext. 30 </BLOCKQUOTE> <P> <CENTER> [ <a href="index.html">H<font size=2>OME</font></a> | <a href="archives.html">A<font size=2>RCHIVES</font></a> | <a href="filmvideo.html">F<font size=2>ILM & </font>V<font size=2>IDEO</font></a> | <a href="community.html">C<font size=2>OMMUNITY</font></a> | <a href="dancers.html">D<font size=2>ANCERS & </font>M<font size=2>USICIANS</font></a> | <a href="merce.html">M<font size=2>ERCE</font></a> ] <br> <br> [ <a href="schedule.html">P<font size=2>ERFORMANCE</font> S<font size=2>CHEDULE</font></a> | <a href="studio.html">S<font size=2>TUDIO</font></a> | <a href="technology.html">T<font size=2>ECHNOLOGY</font></a> | <a href="repertory.html">R<font size=2>EPERTORY</font></a> | <a href="friends.html">F<font size=2>RIENDS</font></a> ] </CENTER><P> <HR SIZE=3 ALIGN=LEFT> <P> <IMG HSPACE=5 WIDTH=40 HEIGHT=39 ALT="[logo]" SRC="logo_orange.gif" Align=Left> <FONT SIZE=3> Copyright © 1995 <A HREF="mailto:earnie@merce.org">Cunningham Dance Foundation.</A> All rights reserved.<BR> Web site by <A HREF="http://www.smallworld.com/">Small World Software, Inc.</A> / <A HREF="mailto:info@smallworld.com">info@smallworld.com</A> </FONT> </body> </html> </x-html>
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