Summer Intensive Drop-In Classes
SCHEDULE:
7/15 & 7/17 | 10 - 11:45am:
Rebecca Lemme | Release Technique | Movement discovery rooted in investigation, problem solving, and versatility
7/16 | 10 - 11:45am & 7/18 | 3 - 4:30pm:
Ilya & Megan | Sync Up: Contemporary Partnering | In this explorative workshop, Megan Doheny & Ilya Nikurov share tools and researched approaches to creating and performing duet materials that is based on open physical communication, nuanced listening techniques, action/ reaction, playfulness/ spontaneity, and the sharing of energy in real-time.
7/16 | 3 - 4:30pm & 7/18 | 10 - 11:45am:
Jessie Lee Thorne | Improv for Performance I An improvisation based class focusing on the interplay between movement and theatricality.
7/19 | 10 - 11:45am:
Tyrell & Latrina | Hip Hop Performance | Tyrell and Latrina help dancers explore being an artist, behind the artist. Blending musicality, grooves, and execution; while still maintaining individuality within the movement. This class will give dancers a feel-good nostalgia, along with a good time.
7/15 | 3 - 4:30pm:
Grasan Kingsberry | Jazz | Step into the world of jazz dance with this Broadway inspired jazz dance class where storytelling meets movement. From foundational warm-ups, across-the-floor progressions to a dynamic combo, immerse yourself in the rhythm and narrative of Broadway jazz dance.
7/17 & 7/22 | 3 - 4:30pm:
Gerran Reese | Hip Hop/Jazz Funk & West African Fusion | No matter the style I teach you will be fully immersed in my language of movement/choreography. I would describe my teaching style as an engaging and authentic experience that helps you specifically discover how to become the best artist and dancer you can be. I want you to feel your transformation from the time you walk into class to the time you walk out. Dance is truly a journey, moreover, an individual journey. Art is limitless!
7/19 | 12:45 - 2:45pm:
Omar Olivas | Improv | We will engage in class by exploring exercises and improvisational structures to heighten our body awareness, broaden our individual movement vocabulary and develop skills in spontaneous composition. This class will also explore the basic principles of contact Improv. With a partner, dancers will explore weight sharing, counterbalance, support, and lifts. The class will end with a minimum Improv Jam, allowing the students to play with concepts learned.
7/22 & 7/24 | 10 - 11:45am:
Cody Potter | Floorwork | Cody’s floorwork class consists of an improvisational warmup which uses imagery to find connections to the body, passes across the floor to find comfort with pathways in and out of the floor and a culminating phrase which allows participants to use what they have learned in a lively and open phrase of pre-made material. Their class focuses on using our weight and relationship to gravity and momentum to find joy in movement.
7/23 & 7/25 | 10 - 11:45am:
Madison Olandt | Contemporary | Madison’s class will focus on release technique as it pertains to our relationship to gravity, usage of the functionality of the bends and folds of the human body and how it generates natural momentum in and out of the floor. Madisons vocabulary stems from flying low technique, capoeira, and contemporary influences. She encourages dancers to always be tapping into their truest source: realism as it pertains to movement and emotive expression.
7/26 | 10:00am - 12:00pm:
Heavy Boots | Dance On Film | Students will explore Heavy Boots movement vocabulary while being lead through exercises that focus on playing with cinematography.
7/23 & 7/25 | 3 - 4:30pm:
Melissa Schade | Contemporary Jazz | A mashup of jazz and contemporary. Quirky, athletic, challenging, and emotional, Schade creates a safe, inclusive, and fun space for dancers to be themselves within her choreography.
7/24 | 3 - 4:30pm:
Jamila Glass feat. Special Guest Lady Noir | The Space in Between Remixed | Discover how to quickly find the pocket of new music in a contemporary class that lives somewhere in the middle of accented and released movement. Featuring a live DJ.
*All drop-in classes are advanced level. Schedule subject to change.