David Bloom  Modern Training for Dancers

Classdescription: Contemporary Dance Class - Receiving The Dance Of The Day
The class begins from sensing the body itself, and then brings awareness to the spacetime we are moving through, using a mixture of improvisation proposals and set movement sequences. Each class will use the energy of the group present on that particular day, at that particular time, to create a unique experience and a joyful practice. It also aims to explore dancing as something involving both Reception and Action.

Bio: David Bloom was born in Heidelberg, Germany, to a family from New York, NY. Played the piano professionally for 12 years, including a stint at the bar Marie's Crisis in New York. Received his dance training mainly at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Frankfurt am Main, where his teachers included Dieter Heitkamp, Marc Spradling, Nora Kimball and José Biondi. Also strongly influenced by workshops with William Forsythe, Kirstie Simson, & Benoit Lachambre. Was a member of the dance ensemble at the Staatstheater Darmstadt directed by Mei Hong Lin, and has participated in projects by Marco Santi, Michael d'Auzon, Nir de Volff/Total Brutal, Micha Purucker, Ingo Reulecke, Canan Erek, Friederike Plafki & Felix Ruckert. Since graduating from the M.A. Choreography course at Ernst-Busch-Hochschule/Hochschulübergreifendes Zentrum Tanz (Inter-University Center for Dance) Berlin, he has been focusing mainly on his own work, including Die Heilige und die Hure, a solo for Felix Ruckert, and enemy, an interactive sauna dance piece. David is the recipient of a 2012 danceWEB scholarship.