Barbara Mahler  is choreographer, performer, educator, Master teacher  Klein Technique, and a body worker (Zero Balancing and other modalities-1983-present) maintaining a private practice in injury rehabilitation and prevention, and movement therapy.  Her viewpoint of the well functioning person/body is based on her long standing work in the dance field, (30 years), and the perspective gained in re-educating her own body. She is an ongoing faculty member with Movement Research, NYC (since 2004), and a Faculty member of the Danish National School of Theatre and Contemporary Dance.  (1994-present).  From 1979-2004 she was the main teacher, and motor, of the Susan Klein School of Dance.  Other classes in NYC take place at 100 Grand, and MacKenzie Pilates Studio @ 63 Greene St . Classes are almost daily.   On-going Classes in NYC.    Barbara travels extensively, and is available for performances and workshops.

INSTRUCTORS – KLEIN TECHNIQUE™

www.kleintechnique.com/instructors.html

Barbara Mahler Major contributor, Master Teacher of Klein Technique™, NYC, NY.

Most recently:

Richard Daniels’ Dances for an iPhone (excerpts) will be a  part of
the annual DOC festival, co- presented by the Film Society of Lincoln
Center and Dance Films Association. A showing and panel discussion took place
at the Walter Reade Theater and the Elinor Bunin Munroe Amphitheater at
Lincoln Center, January 29 @1:30pm, 2012 at the Bunin Munroe Amphitheater, with dancers from all three volumes.  -I was a of  panel member.

SUNDAYS AT THREE:    SUNDAY FEBRUARY 13- Barbara Mahler  and Guests- 92nd Street Y – New York, NY
www.92y.org/Uptown/Event/Sundays-At-Three-BarbaraMahler.aspx

Join Barbara Mahler and guests for dances new and slightly used, including an excerpt from her 2002 solo The Whispering Pages-short dances in white all in a row to the soulful voices of The Platters.  “Guests” include choreographers Leslie Satin and David Rafael Botana, Valerie Green, Rachel Thorne Germond and Katherine Howard.    Join us for an afternoon rich in aesthetic variation; a palate of  form, movement and viewpoints.

Dance Listings for Feb. 10-16

Published: February 9, 2012

  Barbara Mahler (Sunday) This choreographer associated with spare abstract elegance presents two new dances as well as works choreographed by her friends Rachel Thorne Germond, Valerie Green, Leslie Satin and David Rafael Botana. At 3 p.m., 92nd Street Y, 1395 Lexington Avenue, (212) 415-5500, 92y.org; $10. ( Anderson )’;

 COMING UP:

RAD FESTIVAL – KALAMAZOO MI – March 1-4 2012          www.midwestradfest.org

DANCE CONVERSATIONS AT THE FLEA, NYC, ON WHITE STREET, Friday March 12

SPRING BLOOMS- Green Space, LIC, April 13, 2012 (link on right)

CHOREOGRAPHIC RESIDENCY IN GOTHENBERG,  SWEDEN APRIL 16-29    International Dance Programme Gothenburg–includes open classes..

LEAP Dance Project | Queens Council on the Arts  queenscouncilarts.org/leap/

Artistic and outreach support for selected Queens artists 2011-12.  Funded by the Queens Council for the Arts (QCA) The support includes working space, peer group support, workshops and culminates in a performance event of new dances at La Guardia Community College in Queens, NY,  June 15 2012.

Tuesday June 26/Dixon Place “CROSSING BOUNDARIES”-curated by Marcia Monroe

SUMMER MELT… with Movement Research NYC, July 25-29

“I have been teaching class almost daily since 1979, first at the Collette Barry and Susan Klein School of Dance, then at the Susan Klein School of Movement and Dance (1983-2002), and in the years 2002-2004, at The Susan Klein and Barbara Mahler School of Dance and Movement Studies. I also been on the faculty/guest artist at Hunter College, NYC (2004-2011)  Since 2004, I have been an ongoing faculty member with Movement Research,  as well as teaching at various studios and colleges in the greater NY, and touring extensively.   I have also been a guest artist the Theater School (formerly known as School for Modern Dance) in Copenhagen, and with Dance Alliensen in Sweden, as well as  at SUNY Purchase, NY;  DNA (NYC); Studio 303 and Circuit-Est (Montreal, Quebec 1994-2009), as well as Ohio State’s first annual summer dance festival, Earth Dance, and multiple times with MELT w Movement Research,NY;  Zenon Dance Company School and Rosy Simas Dance, Minneapolis,MN; and Dancing People Company (Ashland, Oregon), among others.  I continue to research, choreograph, dance, teach, do body work, and develop my ideas of movement and the well-functioning, connected  body in motion, exploring all modalities of movement.   The main lens through which I view a richly moving body/individual in movement and life is mainly through  Klein Technique (Susan Klein, originator), and the  hands on healing modality, Zero Balancing (Dr. Fritz Smith, originator).   My initial inspirations for dance came from Professor Dorothy Vislocky at while at Hunter College.  I learned new ways to think, and experience.   My work continues to develop with the work I do with my students and dancers, whether it be in class, in rehearsal, on the table, or in my own practice.

My choreography draws upon the intricate and infinite possibilities of the textures of time, space and the (my) body to create dances which subtly reveal non-linear stories. It is spare, and articulate, intimate and powerful.  Consistent with my teaching vision and all other aspects of my work, I continue to explore the endless possibilities that the body can reveal. The essence of my work, mainly solos and small group dances, comes from a movement vocabulary and point of view developed from many years of working on and with my own body, embodying the principles I teach.    My dance training and studies has included all major modern dance techniques/styles, improvisation, and composition, as well as yoga, feldenkrais, pilates.  My own truth and deepest personal investigations sit within the body of work known as Klein Technique.  I am also a proud mother.”

photo-Bella Klein

“I was an artist in Residence with Movement Research for the 2003-04,  and 2006 -08 seasons.  Movement Research continues to provide a home base for the development of my artistic visions and products. My work has  received support from Meet the Composer, and the Arts Council in Montreal, Canada. I was a recipient of a Sage Cowles Land Grant, a Meet the Composer grant, and a solo artist at The Yard (an artist’s colony).  Most recently I was an artist in residence with the  Cultural Ministry of Chile (GAM).   My work has been supported by the 92 Street Y Harkness Dance Center for many years.  I am also a  certified teacher and  practitioner of Zero Balancing, a hands on healing modality, maintaining a private practice in general alignment,efficiency and body work.” (link on the right) See HISTORY/BIOGRAPHY for more specific details.

My students include/have included dancers from all backgrounds, styles and aesthetic viewpoints – Trisha Brown, Stephen Petronio, Neil Greenberg, Wally Cardona, Bebe Miller,  Jeremy Nelson, Fabio Travares Da Silva, Gerald Casel, Johanna Hegenshcheildt (Berlin), Karin Jameson (Sweden), Janinne Rivel (Sweden), Wendy Blum, Fara Greenbaum, Leslie Satin, Jeremy Laverdere, Donna Uchizono, Luis Lara, Athena Malloy, Ted Johnson, Donna Costello, Cara Heerdt, Jessica Winograd, Faye Driscoll,  Jamie Graham, Francis Stansky, Anthony Philips, Barbara Grubel, Amy Kail,  Omagbitse Omagbemi, Alissa Horowitz, Jamie Chandler, Peter Chamberlain, Rebecca Milkman, Rachel Thorne Germond, Rosy Simas, -  too many wonderful dancers and people to mention.

In the years 2004-2007, there was a mentoring program to prepare long time students for teaching.  Those involved have been  Rebecca Alson-Milkman, L.A.;  Rachel Thorne Germond, Virginia; Rosy Simas, Mpls;  and Fara Greenbaum, NYC.  For more information  contact at barbmahler@aol.com.