Klein technique expert in residence

Barbara Mahler, dancer/choreographer and expert in the Klein Technique, will be on campus as guest artist-in-residence at the Dance Program Nov. 26-Dec. 1.

Mahler has been teaching, choreographing and performing nationally and internationally for the past twelve years.

The Klein Technique stresses learning to move through proper skeletal alignment in order to unblock the flow of energy through the body, enabling the dancer to move with maximum fluidity and dynamic range. As a master teacher of the Susan Klein technique, Mahler has taught and coached artists such as Trisha Brown, Stephen Petronio, Bebe Miller and Neil Greenberg.

The campus community and the public are invited to several events during her residency including an opportunity to meet the artist at an “Afternoon Chat with Barbara Mahler in the Parlor” on Wednesday, Nov. 28, 3:30 p.m.

Mahler will also present a free public informal showing of her work followed by a discussion on Friday, Nov. 30, at 3:30 p.m. in the Margaret H’Doubler Performance Space, and teach a master class Saturday, Nov. 30, at 11 a.m. All events are held in Lathrop Hall, 1050 University Ave.

Mahler’s approach to the choreographic process is rigorously contemporary. “As there is no ‘new movement,’ I am committed to finding new relationships, rhythmic and compositional juxtaposition, and unpredictability,” she says. The clarity and expressiveness of her dancing have gained her the reputation of a dancer’s dancer who integrates all the parts of herself–physical, rational, emotional–into a powerful performing presence.

Mahler’s residency is generously sponsored by the Brittingham Visiting Scholar Program. For more information, call (608) 262-1691.