Edward Clark Workshops & Tripsichore Yoga Performance
September 19th - 21st, 2008

All proceeds from Saturday’s performance will benefit Children's Memorial Hospital. About Children’s Memorial Hospital and Children’s Memorial Foundation Founded in 1882, Children's Memorial Hospital is recognized as one of the top pediatric hospitals in the country in rankings published in U.S. News & World Report. Its physicians are on faculty at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. As a not-for-profit organization, Children’s Memorial relies on philanthropy to help provide care to more than 113,000 patients and their families every year. To learn more, go to www.childrensmemorial.org

Workshops

This workshop will start with the fundamental relationships of pranayama and asana and pranayama and movement/flow. As we progress, it will focus on inversions and backbends within this framework of breath, pose, and flow.

Friday, September 19th - 9:00am to 4:30pm
Vinyasa: Innovation and Orthodoxy
$130 advance / $140 after 08/15

Saturday, September 20th - 11:00am to 2:00pm
Choreographic Workshop
$65 advance / $70 after 08/15

Tripsichore creates works that fuse the lyricism of dance with the spirituality of yoga. The technique focuses on uniting the mind and body through the use of breath and the movement of energy. Tripsichore’s linking of postures is innovative, yet the methods used are respectful of orth

odox traditions. The goal of this workshop is to understand the beauty and energy of some of the more spectacular postures and to explore their expressive potential.

Some previous yoga experience is recommended because we do work with advanced asanas, although those fairly new to yoga will find the workshop safe, accessible, and entertaining.

Sunday, September 21st - 11:30am to 2:30pm
Tripsichore Sun Salutes
$65 advance / $70 after 08/15

Given the enormous range of yoga postures, most styles of yoga are quite timid in their exploration of the possibilities that can be included. Learn the innovative Tripsichore Sun Salutes while discovering the specifics of breathing used to move into and through the unusual sequences of postures that Tripsichore uses in its daily practice. These are an excellent template for how the body and mind are moved by the breath. In this workshop, we will explain our techniques used to achieve some of the “spectacular” postures, which we believe to be the same approach as for some of the apparently “simple” postures.

Performance

Music Institute of Chicago, Evanston, IL
Saturday, September 20th - 7:30pm
General Admission - $60

Tripsichore began in 1979 as a company devoted to creating full length dance narratives. We explored a variety of stylistic forms including punk ballet, conventional modern dance and strict neo-classical technique. We used masks, performed with rock bands and did pop videos. While yoga was always a part of our training, it wasn't until 1992 that we realised the expressive potential and choreographic viability of yoga postures. Once we began to devise works using yoga asanas, their extraordinary artistic logic became evident. The postures intrinsically possess a sumptuous beauty and fluidity. They are the ideal vehicle to express the themes of harmony, balance, spirituality, ecstasy, bliss and mysticism because they are exactly about these subjects in and of themselves. We are now 14 years into this experiment and each day brings new discoveries.

"Tripsichore is yoga's answer to Cirque de Soleil." ~ Yoga Journal

All proceeds from Saturday’s performance will benefit Children's Memorial Hospital.

About

Edward Clark takes students on an exploration of the dynamic potential of backbends and inversions within the framework of Tripsichore Yoga Theatre's vinyasa technique.

With one foot in dance, one foot in Ashtanga, and the other in Sivananda, he has synthesized the use of breath, asana, choreography, and philosophy. His classes are entertaining, demanding and exhilarating; yet accessible to all level practitioners.

Edward Clark fuses his keen artistic vision with a deep understanding of the essential pursuit of yoga practice.

Tickets available in advance by calling Generations Yoga Center at 847.919.0533