Monique Jenkinson teaches performance, movement and Yoga.
Her teaching is available thorough individual instruction, workshops and regularly-scheduled group classes.
Performance/Movement
Photo by Arturo Gucci GuevarraWorkshop
Discipline for Deviants: Concrete Techniques for Unclassifiable Performance
This workshop uses imposed limitation—of time, space, materials, and especially physicality—to free and focus the unique artistic voice. It is a direct result of the work I have been doing for the past few years: creating short, tight performances for alternative spaces with little time or resources. Down and dirty.
Although Discipline for Deviants will encourage students to cultivate singular expression and strive toward fearless emotional honesty, it is not about creativity for its own sake or about therapeutic process. It is about using specific, primarily physical, techniques to translate each participant’s vision into performance. We will strive to shed the perceived preciousness and mystery of the creative process. We will apply a joyous rigor to modes of performance that may not be taken very seriously by mainstream culture. Conversely, we will attempt to loosen the stranglehold of ‘traditional’ on ‘technique.’ Using practical tools, I hope to help build a sense of stability, technique and context for the artist working outside classification.
Elements:
• A short lecture on the history of marginal and interdisciplinary performance.
• Guts & Glamour. Jumping-jacks & sit-ups. Yoga & ballet. Singing & screaming.
• Short improvisations in the service of a quick, decisive product.
• Group critique to open constructive dialogue between artists and to introduce the practice of using an outside eye.
• Playing dress-up.
Discipline for Deviants welcomes artists of all disciplines. Students must be willing to move, perform in front of others, and discuss their work.
Yoga
Yoga: Alignment and Flow
This class combines very detailed alignment work, inspired by the tradition of B.K.S Iyengar, with the joyous flow of a Vinyasa-based practice. From the specific placement of the body in a given posture, to the transitions between poses in the Sun Salutation, from the fundamentals to the big, impressive poses; the goal of this class, at every level, is to clarify.
Monique uses compassion and humor to engage students in this sometimes difficult, always rewarding practice.
Monique is a graduate of the San Francisco Integral Yoga Institute's teacher training program, and a Yoga Alliance registered yoga teacher, and has been teaching actively since 2000. Her practice is greatly influenced by her yoga teacher Sri Louise and her ballet teacher Augusta Moore, and by more than 20 years of dance experience.
Schedule of San Francisco Yoga Classes
Her teaching is available thorough individual instruction, workshops and regularly-scheduled group classes.
Performance/Movement
Photo by Arturo Gucci Guevarra
Discipline for Deviants: Concrete Techniques for Unclassifiable Performance
This workshop uses imposed limitation—of time, space, materials, and especially physicality—to free and focus the unique artistic voice. It is a direct result of the work I have been doing for the past few years: creating short, tight performances for alternative spaces with little time or resources. Down and dirty.
Although Discipline for Deviants will encourage students to cultivate singular expression and strive toward fearless emotional honesty, it is not about creativity for its own sake or about therapeutic process. It is about using specific, primarily physical, techniques to translate each participant’s vision into performance. We will strive to shed the perceived preciousness and mystery of the creative process. We will apply a joyous rigor to modes of performance that may not be taken very seriously by mainstream culture. Conversely, we will attempt to loosen the stranglehold of ‘traditional’ on ‘technique.’ Using practical tools, I hope to help build a sense of stability, technique and context for the artist working outside classification.
Elements:
• A short lecture on the history of marginal and interdisciplinary performance.
• Guts & Glamour. Jumping-jacks & sit-ups. Yoga & ballet. Singing & screaming.
• Short improvisations in the service of a quick, decisive product.
• Group critique to open constructive dialogue between artists and to introduce the practice of using an outside eye.
• Playing dress-up.
Discipline for Deviants welcomes artists of all disciplines. Students must be willing to move, perform in front of others, and discuss their work.
Yoga
Yoga: Alignment and Flow
This class combines very detailed alignment work, inspired by the tradition of B.K.S Iyengar, with the joyous flow of a Vinyasa-based practice. From the specific placement of the body in a given posture, to the transitions between poses in the Sun Salutation, from the fundamentals to the big, impressive poses; the goal of this class, at every level, is to clarify. Monique uses compassion and humor to engage students in this sometimes difficult, always rewarding practice.
Monique is a graduate of the San Francisco Integral Yoga Institute's teacher training program, and a Yoga Alliance registered yoga teacher, and has been teaching actively since 2000. Her practice is greatly influenced by her yoga teacher Sri Louise and her ballet teacher Augusta Moore, and by more than 20 years of dance experience.
Schedule of San Francisco Yoga Classes
| SUN MON TUE FRI |
9:00 - 10:15 AM Bakar Fitness Center/UCSF Mission Bay 1675 Owens (near 16th & 3rd Streets) 12:30 - 2:00PM Gold's Gym Castro 2301 Market @ Noe 2:30 - 3:30PM Millberry Fitness Center/UCSF 500 Parnassus 4:30 - 5:30PM Gold's Gym SoMa 1001 Brannan @ 9th 6:00 - 7:30PM Flow Studios 2358 Pine @ Fillmore 1:10 - 2:10PM Millberry Fitness Center/UCSF 500 Parnassus 7:00 - 8:00AM Bakar Fitness Center/UCSF Mission Bay 1675 Owens (near 16th & 3rd Streets) 12:00 - 1:30PM Gold's Gym Castro 2301 Market @ Noe |