Don't just climb it, dance it . . .
. . . a dance-climb fusion
Events
- San Francisco International Arts Festival 2008
- Bay Area National Dance Week April 29, 2008
- Spring Fundraiser April 24,25,26, 2008
- Studio Warming: June 28, 2007
- Bandshell Opening: June 23, 2007
- Fundraising Performance: November 17-18, 2006
- Summer Solstice Event: June 21, 2006
- Fundraising Performance: June 2-3, 2006
- The Flaming Sword of Truth: May 19, 2006
- Red Rock Rendezvous : March 24-26, 2006
San Francisco International Arts Festival 2008
For the San Francisco International Arts Festival, AscenDance Project will present Levitate, a free site specific dance performance at Union Square. German born performance artist and rock climber, Isabel von Rittberg creates work that explores the aesthetics of climbing, the effects of and the ability to overcome gravity. Performance Dates: May 23 June 2 and June 6 at 5Pm, 6pm, 7pm and May 24, June 1 and June 7 at noon, 1pm and 2pm!
Bay Area National Dance Week April 29, 2008
As part as the Bay Area National Dance Week artistic director of AscenDance Project Isabel von Rittberg taught a dance-climb fusion class to share the joy of moving on a climbing wall to the rhythm of music. In addition, her dancers presented a demonstration/open rehearsal of her latest work in preparation for the San Francisco International Arts Festival.
Spring Fundraiser April 24,25,26, 2008
AscenDance Project proudly presented LEVETATE our Pre-Show for the San Francisco International Arts Festival 2008 8:00 PM Admission: $8-15 Location: 1919 Market St. Oakland, CA 94707
Studio Warming: June 28, 2007
Our audience visited our new studio space for another dance-climb fusion performance on Thursday June 28th, 2007 at 8:30 PM. AscenDance Project presented a collection of old pieces on the wall as well as works in progress on our new bar structure.
Bandshell Opening: June 23, 2007
AscenDance Project performed on Saturday, June 23rd, in San Francisco’s Panhandle Park at the Grand Opening Event of the full-scale, traditional bandshell! Our perfomance will be accompanied by pianist Merrill Collings during the early afternoon. Festivities started at 12 noon with kids- and family-oriented programming until an unveiling ceremony at 2pm. There was an incredible line-up of acoustic music, dance and aerial performances throughout the afternoon.
Fundraising Performance: November 17-18, 2006
Isabel von Rittberg put on another performance at the AP studio to show her latest work presented by AscenDance Project and collaborating performers. Wine and cheese was served at 7 PM. The show started at 8 PM. There will was no cover charge; however, the audience showed their support through generous donations. The showing took place at the Bakery Lofts on 4600 Adeline St. # 212 (cross St. 46th) Emeryville, CA 94608 tel.: 510-225-8844
Summer Solstice Event: June 21, 2006
The climbing community enjoyed a site-specific improvisation on the climbing walls of Class 5, the Touchstone gym located in San Rafael. In continuation of a short performance, artistic director Isabel von Rittberg and her dancers shared the joy of moving on the wall to beats. Whether to enhance their fluency when moving across the wall or to move across the wall to music, it gave participants a fun introduction to dance-climb fusion.
Fundraising Performance: June 2-3, 2006
AscenDance Project hosted an intimate showing of their latest choreographies. Seven pieces were performed including solos by each of the members, a duet, and a piece performed by all dancers. The evening began with wine and cheese @ 7PM followed by the performance @ 8PM. In attendance were local choreographers, dancers, friends and family.
The Flaming Sword of Truth: May 19, 2006
Artistic Director Isabel von Rittberg and dancer Yona Segal performed at the UC Berkeley Art Museum during the 36th annual Berkeley Master of Fine Arts Graduate Exhibition. The improvisational dance performance was in collaboration with sculptor Leo Estevez, whose newest piece, a 3-dimensional life sized poem, was on display. Both dancers moved across the letters which were attached to the wall. For pictures please visit our photo section or Leo Estevez's website.
Red Rock Rendezvous : March 24-26, 2006
This year at Red Rock Rendezvous, AscenDance presented a video of their latest
choreography. In addition, artistic director Isabel von Rittberg debuted a brief
demonstration on the dyno-wall as an introduction to her clinic. For details regarding
the event please visit 
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About AscenDance
Mission Statement
All human beings can relate to music, basic rhythms and movements. Life is based on rhythms. We are surrounded by the earth's cycles; we are guided by the rhythm of our heart beat. Whether we are walking, running, talking, dancing, sleeping, or simply breathing, we follow patterns. Dance is about what unites us, not about what separates us.
By isolating and simply understanding the movements of climbing, AscenDance Project creates choreographed/synchronized climbing-- a dance on the wall to the rhythm of music. A climber's body moves through several different positions when traveling across the wall. Technical movements in the climbing world referred to as "drop-knees, heel-hooks, toe-hooks, dynos, lock-offs, straight-arm hangs, high-steps etc." help the dancers move with ease and grace. Using their strength most efficiently they seem to be smooth and rapid without effort.
For the performers, a climbing wall offers more terrain to explore. For the audience it presents an interesting perspective. With the production of a dance-climb show, AscenDance Project hopes to bring together climbers, dancers, artists, musicians, and an audience that can appreciate a fusion of these elements, whether at a climbing competition or a theatrical setting.
Founder's Notes
A Fusion of Dance and Rock Climbing. I was driving through Utah’s stunning Virgin River Gorge on my way from California to Montana, when the early evening sunlight was reflecting on the red sandstone cliffs surrounding me. Infatuated with the melodies of Thomas Otten, grasping onto the steering wheel with my forehead glued against the windshield, I was enjoying imaginary bodies dancing on the immense vertical terrain around me. For the fist time, I felt the immediate connection of my strong passions for climbing, music and dance. When rock climbing, it was the continuous flow of vertical movements that generated in me a strong mental focus and a powerfully physical strength that allowed me to gracefully overcome my body weight. My vision of climbers executing technical and powerful movements to music was clear and strong, and so was my mission: to convey the magnificence, grace and fluidity of a climber’s delicate and strong movement.
I settled in the Bay Area November of 2005. Hours of hard work went into completion of the climbing wall which we installed in my previous warehouse space in Emeryville, CA. Meanwhile, AscenDance Project (AP) has put on five well-visited, fundraiser performances, a free summer solstice performance at Class 5, a local rock climbing gym in San Rafael in June 2006, a site-specific performance at the Berkeley Art Museum ‘Flaming Sword of Truth’ exhibition on a sculptural poem, a show followed by a seminar at the Red Rock Rendezvous, Las Vegas, NV March 2006 and a free public performance at the Bandshell Opening in San Francisco, June 2007. Furthermore, we are proud to announce that AP is now based in Oakland where it shares a studio with Project Bandaloop and, aside from rehearsals, has started offering dance-climb fusion classes. The student turn-out has been rewarding and feed-back from our student body as well as our loyal audience has encouraged us to continue the work and prepare for the up-coming year of 2008.
AscenDance Project has sprung out of my passion for rock climbing, music and dance. Climbing has brought me to beautiful and remote places. It has allowed me to challenge myself both physically and mentally and develop trust in my partners.
However, I have realized that what has ultimately triggered my passion and obsession for rock climbing is purely the movement. It is the continuous flow of a series of rhythmic movements on the wall that generates in me a feeling of complete physical awareness--a state of mind I believe we all seek. My aspiration is to view climbing from an artistic point of view and focus attention on the beauty and power of dancing on a wall. Climbing can be smooth, static and slow on a vertical wall; the movements become more dynamic, energetic and fast on an overhang. The sequence of movements is aesthetic, it is a dance.
Performance Environments
Most of our work, we choreograph and perform on our wall, located in Oakland, CA. Our new portable piping structure has a more industrial look and allows for movements to be three-dimensional and Parcour-like. The piping structure gives the audience a 360 degree view, thus allows for interesting perspectives. In addition, we enjoy collaborating with other artists, adapting to new environments and creating site-specific work. It is intriguing to explore the different possibilities of movement on art pieces, walls, various materials and unique settings while working with other performers, painters, sculptors and musicians.
Climbing on Leo Estevez' poem established a certain interaction between the audience and his sculpture. At an art gallery, viewers are trained to mostly look at and listen to art. The audience was intrigued by the close connection between the poem, written on the wall and the performer who was moving across the letters as if reading the words. For the performer, moving across the piece opened a whole new dimension of experiencing the art.
At the San Rafael Touchstone climbing gym Class5, our performance was partly choreographed and partly improvised. The site-specific demonstration allowed climbers of all ages to look at the sport from a different perspective and inspired them to try climbing to music during the seminar. If anything, dance-climb fusion represents a very unique method to enhance climbing techniques while purely focusing on the movement. For both events, pictures can be seen in our photo gallery under events.
Biographies
- Isabel Jessica von Rittberg
- Ryan Gaunt
- Yona Segal
- Laurence Plouvier
- Damian Cooksey
- Sadie Landram
- Chandra Krown
- Jen Colasuonno
- Benjamin Turner
- Chelsea Griffie
- Mark Foster
- Brian Van Tress
Artistic Director
Isabel Jessica von Rittberg
Isabel Jessica von Rittberg grew up in Wuppertal-Beyenburg, Germany, a small historical village in Western Germany. Her mother who was born in Montana and lived in India, brought her up bilingually. From her parents she was given the gift of a dual citizenship; she spent her summers in Western Montana just roaming, hiking, and exploring...or playing competitive tennis. The Rocky Mountains instilled in Isabel a love of nature.
At the age of seven, she started taking piano lessons and has not stopped playing ever since. Isabel was also introduced to dance formally at a young age with ballet lessons, although her interest in dance took a different path as she grew older-- Hip Hop. The beats were basic and strong; the movements defined but free and loose. This would later foster her passion for African-Brazilian Dance.
Isabel graduated with a bachelor's degree in Latin American/Iberian Studies and a French minor from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her first rock climbing experience she had when traveling through Thailand for a month with close friends from Montana. In preparation for her senior thesis, she spent her junior year (2003) living in a cramped student flat in Santiago de Chile. She was there collecting data, interviews and articles on the newly signed Free Trade Agreement between Chile and the United States. But in her precious free time she did some more exploring. Isabel got to climb rock in the Andes and Patagonia as well as the high deserts of the North. She climbed Mount Condoriri in the Cordillera Real in Bolivia, explored Los Arenales in Mendoza, Argentina, and had a look at the Galapagos Islands of Ecuador.
Intensity and love for life in Latin American culture is intoxicating. It was at the Banff Film Festival in Santiago de Chile, that she met Heather Baer and was introduced to Project Bandaloop. The aerial dance company's performance on El Capitan, the biggest monolithic rock face in Yosemite National Park, opened Isabel's eyes to the possibilities of climbing as an art rather than a sport. During that year in South America, she had sharpened Salsa-dancing skills and performed in an Afro-Brazilian Dance group. She had learned to play the bongos. But it wasn't until Project Bandaloop that Isabel considered an integration of her passions for music and dance, with climbing.
Isabel took a seminar with Amelia Rudolph's Project Bandaloop in April 2005. While traveling in Europe during that summer, she was able to film "danse escalade" performances directed by Antoine Le Menestrel and Vincent Rebours in France. She spent inspirational time with Antoine Le Menestrel, a world-class climber and dancer. Isabel returned to the States full of new ideas and creative notions of beginning her own project.
Newly stateside, Isabel performed in an aerial dance piece "The Thorn in the World Side" created and directed by Karl Gillick. While she does not hail from a professional background in dance, the urge to convey the beauty of climbing has led her to begin the AscenDance Project: her own medium to unite three passions--climbing, dance and music.
Performers
Isabel Jessica von Rittberg
Ryan Gaunt
Ryan Gaunt, originally from North Carolina, has been dedicated to climbing as a sport for almost nine years. However, Ryan has always had a passion for outdoor adventures. Although a tree climber in youth, his college years taught him to obsess over rock climbing. After graduating from Brevard College in May 2001, he has been completely and unequivocally a climber. Summer and fall seasonal work as a climbing instructor in North Carolina allowed for travels to warmer drier winter climates. Aside from Thailand and Mexico, these travels were mostly to the deserts of the Southwest. For two consecutive seasons Ryan worked in Tuolumne, for Yosemite NP Search and Rescue. In Bishop, California, prior to his first Tuolumne season, Ryan met Isabel von Rittberg. At this point, Isabel’s plans for starting her own dance-climb fusion project were well underway and a decision on whether to return to Europe or reside in San Francisco, CA still remained. Ryan joined AscenDance Project in the spring of 2006. Having a strong passion for climbing and love for music, Ryan has been extremely devoted to participating in the development of dance-climb fusion. Besides being one of Isabel’s strongest dancers, he trains at the gym and continues climbing at a very high level when escaping to Yosemite, Tahoe, Red Rocks and Bishop. Ryan has developed an extremely dynamic dance style on the wall as well as on the bar structure.
Yona Segal
Yona Segal has been dancing throughout her life, doing jazz and ballet as a girl, and modern dance and choreography in college. She comes from a family of dance; her grandmother danced with Martha Graham and her parents met each other while dancing. She loves the combination of dance and climbing, and believes, "Climbing and dance are really not so distant. They both take poise, balance, awareness, and focus." Her climbing experience includes more than 8 years of indoor and outdoor climbing, with some occasional multi-pitch, though she is more interested in the moves than having epic adventures.
Yona grew up in Boulder, Colorado, went to college in Maine, lived in western Massachussettes, and Jerusalem for a year each, attended graduate school in Maryland, and moved to California. She now works as a teacher in a lower elementary class in a Montessori School. She enjoys her work, and her free summers, which she spends being outside and traveling. She loves living in the Bay Area, where she has been since 1999.
Laurence Plouvier
Born with the relentless dream of flying, very early on Laurence, aka Lolo, investigated flying, hang gliding, parachutes, climbing and could never go high enough for her heart’s content. While traveling the world, San Francisco, the city by the bay called to her and that’s where she finally started to dance. This new and unsuspected passion had her explore every style you could think of, from tap dancing through modern and African dances, to martial arts. Seven years ago, she eventually met Terry Sendgraff the pioneer of aerial dance who launched her onto her true addiction. Since then, she’s been hanging and flying from ropes and harnesses, bungees, trapezes, fabrics, rocks, windows, ladders…you name it! In the latter years she’s been assiduously studying with her mentor and friend Joanna Haigood whose teachings elevated her to the ecstatic state of mind she encounters in the air. She is very grateful to have met Isabel and to be part of such a supportive, creative, innovative, and inspiring team. When she’s not flying, you might find her hiking the Himalayas, playing Japanese Taiko, or twirling pois. Besides her very physical passions and creative work, she is a partner and system engineer in her co-owned company Tehama Wireless, a consulting company in Telecommunications engineering based in San Francisco.
Damian Cooksey
Damian Cooksey grew up in the Midwest, where a scarcity of rocks did not prevent an early love of climbing. At the age of 20, Damian moved to Los Angeles and discovered Rockreation, an indoor climbing gym, where he walked in the door and set about climbing non-stop for 9 hours – his passion for climbing has taken him to many summits since. In 2004, Damian started Slacklining, a sport similar to tightrope walking. His achievements in the world of slackline include setting 3 world records for long-distance Slacklining, the longest of which still stands to this day at 506 feet. A competitor at the first international slackline competition, the Polish Slackline Open, Damian took first place in the highline competition, and second place in the trick line competition. On March 13, 2007, Damian became the first person in the world to land a front flip on the slackline. He has rigged and walked over 20 highlines including the Rossstein Spire in Germany, the world famous Lost Arrow Spire, and most recently a new 130 foot-long, 1500 foot high line straight over the top of the tallest waterfall in North America, Yosemite Falls – successfully crossing it on his first attempt! Damian has demonstrated Slacklining and highlining at many events incuding the 2nd Annual Austrian Slackline Event as well as at the 2007 ISPO Trade Show in Munich, Germany. At Red Rocks Rendezvous 2006, Damian met Isabel while dancing. Back in the Bay Area, Damian visited the AscenDance studio and immediately enjoyed moving on the wall with Isabel and Skippy. He gladly became a member of the dance company and his first performance was at Class 5 in June of 2006. He is very grateful to be part of such a supportive, creative, innovative, and inspiring group of people, and looks forward to many more wonderful, vertical-dimension experiences in the future.
Sadie Landram
Sadie grew up in Flagstaff, AZ in a family that was constantly playing in the outdoors. Whether it was rafting on the San Juan River, climbing the San Francisco Peaks, or hiking in the Grand Canyon, Sadie was always happiest when she was outside. At the age of three Sadie completed her first rock climb and hasn’t stopped climbing since. She attended a performance arts high school where she discovered the joys and freedom of dance, learning techniques in modern, jazz and ballet. One night Sadie walked into her local climbing gym to find Canyon Movement Company, a local dance troupe, holding auditions for a new show they were performing on the climbing wall. From that moment on Sadie has been obsessed with the idea of combining two of her favorite passions (climbing and dance) and has been searching for ways to do just that. In college she spent every spare moment of time climbing outside, dancing inside, or dreaming up new choreography for shows on the ropes in Animus City Rock Gym (located in Durango, CO). When she was not dancing or climbing she spent her time studying exercise science and working with kids with special needs. Having recently moved to the Bay Area, Sadie is incredibly excited to have found the ascendance project and a group of people that understand the magic that can be created when combining the power and form of climbing with the beauty and grace of dance.
Chandra Krown
Chandra Krown was born and raised in Vancouver, BC. As a child she was a dancer and competitive gymnast.Her first professional training was at the Main Dance Intensive Professional Training Program in Vancouver and since then, Chandra has trained and performed internationally. She started performing professionally 12 years ago and has worked in various mediums - dance, voice, acrobatics, stilts, in-line skates, fire and aerials.As an Aerialist, she has been a company member of Aeriosa Dance (based in Vancouver) since 2004. She has performed and trained as an aerialist with other companies since 2000 including Mortal Coil, Flyaway Productions and Project Bandaloop on an assortment of apparatus - hoop, rope and harness, trapeze, tissue and various custom designed props. Currently, working with Ascendance Project, she has the opportunity to weave her passion for dance,climbing and creativity!
Jen Colasuonno
Jen Colasuonno is a versatile performer, collaborator and teacher. She has performed partner balancing acrobatics, physical theater, dancing, singing, kecak, puppeteering, fire arts, aerial arts, and circus sideshow internationally - as a soloist and as part of a troupe. Jen currently lives in San Francisco and is a happy little busy bee. She is one half of the acro-silly duo Jean & Bean, a member of the vaudeville troupe MerryGoRound House, and is a puppeteer for Lunatique Fantastique. Offstage, Jen is an artist’s model, a member of The Finch Mob artists collective, a freelance Event & Production Manager and teaches partner balancing acrobatics.
Benjamin Turner
Benjamin Turner has performed partner acrobatics, dance, and circus in San Francisco for the past three years, and also has experience in contact improv, acrobatic stilting, and acro-yoga. He may currently be seen throughout the Bay Area as part of cartoon dance troupe Fou Fou Ha, the Merry-go-round collective, and as half of the duo Jean & Bean. In addition to stage dancing he has an interest in site-specific, interactive sculpture, and creative re-use of public space.
Chelsea Griffie
The name Chelsea is synonymous with motion. She is almost constantly moving, that one. If she is still for too long, do not trust that it will last. She is probably planning her next workout, activity, or passion. She ran track and cross country in high school. She has studied Modern Dance at UC Berkeley, which morphed into Tai Kwon Do and Capoeira, then climbing.
Rock climbing grabbed Chelsea's attention and just didn't let go. Chelsea started climbing while on vacation in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It came naturally and opened up new vistas. The vertical world was so different from the horizontal. There is a choreography defined by circumstance, but only limited by creativity. Chelsea's love affair with climbing has endured thirteen years. She has tried to be at least competent in the many disciplines of climbing, including bouldering, sport climbing, crack climbing, big wall climbing and now dance-climb fusion. Chelsea has been a respected member of the Yosemite climbing community.
In her professional life she is giving something back. Chelsea is the program manager for the Bay Area Wilderness Training. She takes youth workers on five day backpacking trips and teaches them how to lead their youth safely on backpacking and camping trips. Then, graduates can borrow gear from the BAWT library for free. For more info visit www.bawt.org
Mark Foster
Mark grew up in a barn. It was an old New England cow barn with three stories, trap doors and a high sloping roof. Here he began to hone is climbing and falling skills. He would throw himself off the roof with reckless abandon, often into deep piles of snow.
More formal climbing endeavors came in high school in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. After Mark's first ascent and subsequent rappel down the cliff, someone yelled "Rock!". Mark looked up when he should have ducked and quickly learned that small rocks propelled by gravity from 100 feet above can make an impression on you. He has loved rock climbing ever since. Intrigued with gravity- and its intermittent companion pain- Mark found other things to fall off of or out of; horses, trees and buildings...
Mark has been a wilderness guide for nearly twenty years. He has had many adventures and misadventures in New England, the Rockies, Coastal California and Alaska. Mark likes embarrassing himself and has found that acting is another excellent avenue for this pursuit. He has worked as a voiceover actor for KPFN in Berkeley, CA, the Learning Company as the voice of Charlie Chipmunk, and has appeared in a Visa commercial. As a street theatre performer, Mark has survived vengeful mobs in places like Cambridge Mass. and Novato CA. At the spry old age of 40, he was honored (or humored) with an audition with Cirque du Soleil. Mark contributed an amazing amount of time, hard work and creativity to the company.
Brian Van Tress
A California native, Brian has climbed extensively throughout the United States. He loves the backcountry and is at all times looking forward to planning his next climbing trip. Moving in the vertical world has always been a deeply personal experience, a sure way to plug into the present moment. Adding music and dance technique to these movements creates a new and beautiful art. For Brian, the rhythm of beats makes the sequence of movements on the wall even more enjoyable and fluent. Brian helped give birth to AP and the very first pieces.
Brian is now studying western clinical herbalism, learning about plant medicine and the local ecology of the bay area. Among Brian's many interests, his main passions are to find new ways to consume less and laugh more.
Support
- Founder's Notes
- Support Us
- Dancers' Group
- Metolius
- Nicros
- Madrock
- Photography
- Video Production
- The climbing wall
- Web/graphic design
- Special thanks
Founder's Notes
It has been extremely challenging to follow my visions and make them reality. First, it took months to find a live-work space that would accommodate a climbing wall. Secondly, I needed to decide what the design of the wall would be and how to actually engineer and install a climbing wall. Once it was up, I started choreographing, dancing, searching for other dancers, designing the website and learning about non-profit entities. It has been a challenge juggling my various responsibilities within the project as well as teaching on the side. I want to emphasize, that it would not have been possible without the support of the dance and climbing community, and the network of friends I have established in a short amount of time. The individuals and organizations mentioned below only represent a few of those who have supported me with good advice, important knowledge, hands-on help and financial assistance.
Support Us
We appreciate your financial support, creative input, artistic collaboration and feed-back. Through Dancers' Group AscenDance Project has obtained a non-profit status. Therefore, any donations will be tax deductible.
Please contact us if you would like to contribute to our project. info@ascendanceproject.com
Sponsorship Program offered by Dancers' Group
Please visit www.dancersgroup.org
www.metoliusclimbing.com
www.nicros.com
Madrock climbing shoes
Please visit www.madrockclimbing.com
Photography
Jana Asenbrennerova
Stalina
Video Production
Solange Sanhueza
Construction of the climbing wall
Through artistic director Joanna Haigood, I was introduced to Wayne Cambell. He has designed, engineered and built over one hundred climbing walls and decided to help me plan the wall as well as the supporting structure behind it. Fortunately, Wayne showed me how to execute the repetitive labor (drilling 1300 holes and hammering t-nuts) while he had to weld the metal trusses. Due to our hard-working crew of friends and climbing partners (Brent Walker, Kendall Taylor, Russell Smith, Dan Hauck, Chelsea Griffie), the actual installation took less than a week.
Web/graphic design
Wade McDaniel
website: aproximation.org
Florian Kops
website: ministerium-music.de
Special thanks to dancers and choreographers
Ken James
Joanna Haigood
Terry Sendgraff
Jo Kreiter
Amelia Rudolph
Photo Gallery
Cirque
- levitate 1
- levitate 2
- levitate 3
- levitate 4
- levitate 5
- levitate 6
- levitate 7
- levitate 8
- levitate 9
- levitate 10
- levitate 11
Also visit www.matthaber.com/AscenDance/
Red Rock Rendezvous
The Flaming Sword of Truth
Fundraiser
Fall Fundraiser
Panhandle
Video Gallery
Classes
Notes & Curriculum
In addition to performances, AscenDance Project offers classes for those who wish to learn the basic movements of climbing and enhance their fluency when moving across the wall. Any person of any age and physical ability can develop a certain body-awareness and balance as well as physical strength and confidence when approaching the vertical challenge step by step. For those who are more advanced climbers, classes will focus on creating a routine. The choreography will grow from the teacher's input as well as the students' participation and interaction. Isabel von Rittberg also teaches private lessons. Please call 510-225-8844 for further information or email isabel@ascendanceproject.com
Beginners
As part as the Bay Area National Dance Week, Isabel von Rittberg will be teaching a free brief introductory dance-climb fusion class to share the joy of moving on a climbing wall to the rhythm of music. In addition, her dancers will present a demonstration/open rehearsal of her latest work in preparation for the performances on April 24,25 and 26 as well as the San Francisco International Arts Festival in May. Please call 510-225-8844 to be let into the building! Tuesday April 22, 6-7PM 1919 Market St. Ste. 7 Oakland For more information on the class please contact Isabel von Rittberg 510-225-8844 info@ascendanceproject.com
For clinics and seminars, also check out events
Intermediate & Advanced
Please see info above for February 3, 2008
Contact Information
Director
Isabel Jessica von Rittberg
AscenDance Project
1430 Parker St.
Berkeley, CA
94702
USA
Tel.: (001) 510-649-1252
We are currently looking for dancers. If you are interested please send/email us your resume. In a brief description, explain the reasons for your interest in our project.
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