Dancer to perform, teach
exercises in martial arts
By ANN KELLY
Of the Emerald
During the next few weeks, workshops and per
formances on the ancient martial art of Tai Chi
Ch’aun will be given by Virginia Wagner.
As a professional dancer, Wagner studied with
leading teachers in New York City and in the past
eight years has studied Tai Chi Ch’aun.
Believed to have originated with the Taoist
monks as a form of meditation in exercise, Tai Chi
Ch’aun is now taught as a form of passive self
defense. It is important as a meditation in movement,
which increases physical and mental well-being, ac
cording to Wagner.
“Tai Chi Ch’aun is an exercise for health, a slow
rhythmic dance, which involves a suspended spine,
from the crown of the head, and a rooting of the feet in
I the ground,” she says.
Many of the thoughts of the Chinese philosopher
Lao-Tzu are manifested in the movement technique.
“Two of Lao-Tzu's principles are polarization
and cyclicity,” Wagner explains. “The main principle
is yielding: be like the water, never directly confront.
The movement is cyclical; one movement flows into
the other. There is interchange and the continual
supportiveness of the Ying and Yang, which are the
; soft and hard, the dark and light, the insubstantial
and the substantial.”
She describes Tai Chi Ch'aun as a healthful
slow rhythmic dance and a passive, defensive mar
tial art.
“It develops strong legs and a light upper torso,”
she says. “The back supports the body and the arms
and legs move freely from the torso. It is based on the
balance that man is the link between heaven and
earth. Tai Chi Ch’aun is like planting a seed and you
wait for it to come up."
Tai Chi corrects posture and alleviates
kinesthetic disruption by renewing the true balance
of the body, she adds.
For eight years, Wagner studied under the Yang
school of Tai Chi Ch’aun. Her Master for five years
was Abraham Liu, whom she studied with in Los
Angeles. She also studied with Marshall Ho’o, Kai
Ying Tung, Wen-Shan Huang, John Yalanezian and
Ben Lo.
While dancing she worked under leading New
York teachers and directors, including Doris Hum
phrey, Martha Graham, Jose Limon, Margaret
Craske and Anthony Tudor. She also studied the
Alexander Technique with Judith Leibowitz for six
years in New York City and taught this system of
balance and psycho-physical integration during the
past 15 years.
Wagner uses principles of the Alexander
method in her instruction of Tai Chi, particularly the
system of touch on the part of the teacher and
thought processes of both teacher and student. Both
techniques involve the release of skeletal muscles to
effect natural postural reflex.
Wagner conducted her own school of dance
technique in Teacher’s College, Columbia University
and has taught at the YMHA in New York, in Taos,
Los Alamos and at the Santa Fe Opera. She had a
school in Santa Fe, New Mexico at The Museum of
Fine Arts.
Wagner’s workshops will be held from 7 to 8:30
a.m. Monday through Friday and possibly the follow
ing week. Depending upon the weather, the work
shops will be held at either the Open Gallery, 445
High St. or at Spencer’s Butte Park.
The cost per workshop is $4. Two more work
shops are set for Saturday. One will be from 9 to
11:30 a.m. and the other from 1 to 3:30 p.m. Cost for
each workshop is $20 each or $35 for both.
Wagner will perform and demonstrate move
ments of combat and sword Friday, and again Wed
nesday July 12. Both performances will begin at 8
p.m., with admission charge of $2.50. Call the Open
Gallery, 345-4857 for further information.
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