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• Tap - Michela Lerman from Harlem 100, Location: Sands

Rhythm, improvisation, and swing. Let’s have some fun and make some music!!

• Open Ballet - Fidel Orrillo Puga, Location: Callahan

This ballet class will include the method of the Cuban School of Classical Ballet, which involves a training structure, taking care of the quality of the movement, incorporating the development of proper alignment, balance, coordination, flexibility, strength, musicality, somatic awareness and anatomical terminology, maintaining the artistic beauty, and a deep sense of clarity of the dance steps. The class will have a progression of exercises in Barre, Centre, Petit Allegro and Grand Allegro. This class is open for the student who has basic ballet training or none.

• Free Flow-Improv - Rinallo, Location: George

Danielle Rinallo, Pele Yoga Founder, is passionate about leading creative and engaging classes that empower. Focused on cultivating self-acceptance and self-expression, she'll lead you with laughter to sweat, move, breathe and flow. This class taps into the magic of movement by inviting you to explore the elements. Earth for grounding and presence, water for flow and adaptation, fire for creativity and change, air for lightness and joy and universe for understanding and freedom. This style of improv & teaching is inspired by Pele (Pay-leh), the Hawaiian Volcano Goddess and is full of passion and power! Come experience this expansive and enlightening side of Pele to support your growth and joy.

• Open Level Modern - Koresh Dance, Location: Callahan

Dancers will start with a modern jazz warm up that blends Luigi, Graham, and Horton techniques. For the second half of class we will do a combination focusing on musicality and rhythm and well as finding the dynamics between sharp and smooth movements. 

• Hatha Yoga - Heather Acomb, Location: George

Designed for all levels of dancers and yogis, this class will draw on the alignment-based principles of Iyengar Yoga and the heart-centered energetic principles of Anusara Yoga to explore breath, asana, and meditation.  We will engage in the intersection of dance and yoga on both physical and philosophical planes while allowing ourselves the space and time to connect mind and body. Come explore the incredible benefits (and fun!) of using props to settle into familiar poses in a new way and possibly attempt some more challenging poses as well.  Students should leave class feeling restored, strengthened, centered, and open, having honored themselves as well as the present moment.

• Pilates 4 Dance - Michelle Pritchard, Location: Callahan

This class will take dancers through a vigorous Pilates-based workout designed to strengthen skills dancers need. We will address skills such as balance, core stability, extensions, turnout, and breathing in this class. Participants should have some Pilates experience, should bring a mat, and be prepared to sweat!

• Contemporary Ballet - Zachary Frazee, Location: George

This class will explore the intersection between classical line and contemporary movement aesthetics that contribute to the virtuosity and complexity of contemporary ballet. With an emphasis on the spine, use of momentum and pathways of energy, this class will progress through barre and center work within a similar structure to that of a standard ballet class, and will culminate with original phrasework that embodies the concepts explored throughout the preceding combinations. Geared towards Intermediate/Advanced dancers, this class will draw upon previous classical and contemporary dance training and challenge dancers to move in new and exciting ways.

• Intermediate Modern - Koresh Dance, Location: Callahan

• Hip Hop - Caitlin Mahon, Location: George

You are cordially invited to occupy space in an expressive ferocious manner! This Hip Hop dance class with focus on House dance elements and its philosophy surrounding inclusion. We will view and embody the form(s) through a socio-political lens— paying homage to our “dancesters”. Through investigating this embodied form it will enable personal and societal awareness in terms of how we occupy space, in society, and how others are permitted to.

• Open Rehearsal - Koresh Dance, Location: Callahan
• Be Seen...Improv - Biggs, Location: Medaille

Improvisation has long been described as an exploration of “freedom” in movement. While the notion of such freedom has been challenged by many practitioners of improvisation, what I insist upon in improvisation classes is that to reach any experience of freedom, one must first reconcile the vulnerability of “being seen” in a practice wherein each choice is being sourced from YOU. It is difficult to access a sense of self in the moment if one is preoccupied with what one looks like.

The workshop is grounded in a practice of inviting oneself to be seen. I teach skills and refer to material that centers the whole self rather than a division between the body and mind. Often when a mover feels self-conscious there is a disconnect described as “in my head”. This workshop will introduce methodologies to re-unify these seemingly separate entities (the mind and the body), leaving the student with tools to implement next time they are in an improvisational frame.

Artist Talk - Careers in Dance, Location: A14

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• Max Your Extension - Jill Collins, Location: Sands

Join the Physical Therapists from Callan-Harris Physical Therapy for an interactive, movement-based session to learn how to safely increase your flexibility and use that flexibility in classwork and performance to improve your extensions. We’ll go over common weaknesses and biomechanical errors that prevent dancers from using their full flexibility potential and teach you ways to address them. Gain muscle length, strength and control to achieve your highest heights in extensions!

• Contemporary Phrasework - Bartlett/Trogdon, Location: Callahan

Our classes draw from our personal investigations and experiences as movers and humans. At the beginning of class we invest time in warming-up our bodies; we both believe that understanding how the body functions is integral to preparing the body and to begin our practice.  We combine elements of Pilates, yoga, fitness, somatic practices, and various dance forms to reinforce a structural understanding of alignment and a functional use of the muscles. Opening students awareness to listen to what is happening inside of their bodies is also important.  Every body is different and we encourage each student to strive for an understanding of their own body and build a personal practice that will find balance and strengthen. Once our bodies are warm, we move on to larger investigations of movement that include weight, space, momentum, and energy.  Building on all of the ideas introduced in the warm-up, we look at how the body can efficiently and effectively move through space. We have created phrases that reinforce these ideas while also engaging with our creative and artistic aesthetics.

• Contact Improv - Nancy Hughes, Location: George

How do you create precision in improvised movement in contact?  One answer is to practice contact improv skills with a light touch.  Another answer is to practice pathways that are safe for your body and your partner's body.  We will explore these two concepts in class to build up the sensitivity of touch and hone reflexes. Beginner contact improv students will come away from the class with practical tools to practice in contact improv jams, labs and/or use for performance.

• Movement & Community - Gierre Godley, Location: Sands

An open level movement class based on social dance concepts: movement, rhythm, & community. Participants of any level/experience explore the joy of movement, its rumination in the body, and it unifying powers. (Sneakers or Jazz shoes suggested)

• West African Dance - Fana Bangoura, Location: Callahan

his class will introduce participants to the dynamic rhythm and dance traditions of Guinea, West Africa. Accompanied by live music,you will learn the coalition of dundun rhythms, footwork, and movements for several rhythms from Guinea, and acquire familiarity with the physical stance common to many styles of West African dance.

• Lyrical Contemporary - Anthony Alterio, Location: George

Discomposure of Lyrical Contemporary is a movement-based class that is for intermediate to advanced movers. Ever have that teacher that tells you to leave your personal “stuff” at the door? In this class Alterio encourages you NOT to leave your personal “stuff” at the door but bring it into class for your own personal exploration and journey. He encourages all his students to be who they are in the moment allowing the body to express its true self with no judgement. Experiences make you think. Emotions make you feel. Dance makes you alive. Lyrical dance helps us push past our expectations of executing technique perfectly and allows us to mix a balance of passion, musicality, performance, and execution.

• Musical Theatre "Hairspray" - Stephanie Fittro, Location: Sands

In this uptempo 1.5 hour open level class,
Ms Fittro will break down some of the iconic sequences from the loveable Broadway musical "Hairspray". Get ready to twist, pony and punch up your repertoire of early 60s steps, while finding technical ways to keep all that step- touching right in the groove... While acting and singing too! Bring sneakers or jazz shoes and come ready to play!

• Heels/Contemporary - Gierre Godley, Location: Callahan

An intermediate - advanced movement class focusing on use of the high heel. Combining street jazz, hip hop, and social dance participants explore the performance quality & technique seen in popular culture.

• Contemporary Phrasework - Hollis Bartlett and Nattie Trogdon , Location: George

Our classes draw from our personal investigations and experiences as movers and humans. At the beginning of class we invest time in warming-up our bodies; we both believe that understanding how the body functions is integral to preparing the body and to begin our practice.  We combine elements of Pilates, yoga, fitness, somatic practices, and various dance forms to reinforce a structural understanding of alignment and a functional use of the muscles. Opening students awareness to listen to what is happening inside of their bodies is also important.  Every body is different and we encourage each student to strive for an understanding of their own body and build a personal practice that will find balance and strengthen. Once our bodies are warm, we move on to larger investigations of movement that include weight, space, momentum, and energy.  Building on all of the ideas introduced in the warm-up, we look at how the body can efficiently and effectively move through space. We have created phrases that reinforce these ideas while also engaging with our creative and artistic aesthetics.

• Long Spines/Pilates - Nancy Hughes, Location: Sands

No matter what size or shape one's body is we could all gain from finding more length in our spines.  In this Pilates class will work with tensegrity and waking up the paraspinal muscles while also building in neuroplasticity games to help students form new neural connections.  The class will be appropriate for people new to Pilates as well as regular Pilates practitioners who are looking for a new insight into their practice.

• Transformation into Fierceness - Anthony Alterio, Location: Callahan

Transformation into Fierceness is a movement-based class that is open to all levels. Alterio’s idiosyncratic movements in the class showcases various styles of Hip Hop that involve smooth, sharp, and sensual movement. With a driving force of fierceness this class encourages the dancer to find their inner ferocious beast mode in order to build confidence not just in movement but to their inner voice. He encourages all students to use what they have in the moment to become not just stronger dancers technically, but more dynamic movers and humans.

• Floor, Space, Bodies - Alyssandra Wu, Location: George

Advanced Intermediate to Advanced dancers are invited to a one day workshop that focuses mainly on the dancer’s relationship with the floor and other bodies in space. The class combines movement phrases, partnering tasks, and breathing exercises going with and against the floor to find maximum efficiency. Dancers will learn how to release energy throughout the body in order to activate the relationship between the center and the joints to create fluid movement while optimizing space/finding cohesion and expansion. The workshop draws influence from Flying-Low, T'ai chi ch'uan, Physical Training, and Contact Improvisation to find and refine physical limits. Dancers will be challenged, not only to navigate space from all sides of the room, but also understand weight and space between bodies and how to use one another to find new movement explorations. Participants are encouraged not to stop throughout the 1.5 hour session and class will begin by focusing on cardio based exercises to get the body warm and blood pumping. The workshop will then progress into floorwork combinations, across the floor, partnering exercises, before finally finishing with repertoire from AKDP dance company. Participants are asked to wear long sleeves and pants during the class. Layers are encouraged.

• Jazz - Laura Nimmo, Location: Sands

Contemporary Jazz:  A jazz dance class that will also pull elements of ballet and modern dance to create an exciting infusion.  With a focus on strengthening and conditioning the body through exercises to work on proper placement, we will work on turns, and leaps as well as musicality and complex rhythmic patterns. 

• Contemporary Floorwork - Yuki Ishiguro, Location: Callahan

• West Side Story "Mambo" - Stephanie Fittro, Location: George

It's Jets versus Sharks! Stephanie Fittro, veteran of the 50th anniversary tour of West Side Story in 2007 and 5 contracts in Europe and the United States directed by the late great Director-Choreographer Alan Johnson, will introduce the exciting "Mambo" sequence..for both sides! From alternating rhythms and hand-clapping (one gang against another)  as they were taught to her by Alan and members of the original company, to the "Jet Charge" and classic "Go Mambo" arms ... Fittro will include tidbits from Johnson as well as Choreographer Josh Bergasse, who was her dance captain in Europe under Mr Johnson just after the last tour in the States set by Jerome Robbins himself. A brief warmup will begin the class, followed by choreography; bring sneakers or jazz shoes.

Informal Choreography Showing

Location: Callahan

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• Immersive Theater Dance - Gierre Godley, Location: A13

An open level course designed for movers & actors interested in breaking through the “4th wall.” Participants will explore & develop skills used to create choreographic vocabulary that immerse audiences in scenes allowing the experience to be ever changing.

• Contemporary Repertory - Yuki Ishiguro, Location: George

• Tap - Leah Nimmo, Location: Sands

• Muscle Mechanics - Dr. Matthew Buffan, Location: A13

The goal of this course is to enhance the understanding of a performance artist in potential overuse related muscle injuries. With advanced understanding of functional anatomy and overuse related pathology, the performer will be empowered to pursue their passion and achieve longevity of their performance career. In addition to muscle anatomy, we will go over the most important functional screens as well how to identify the hypermobile performer. We will then break into a movement analysis to screen for the most common movement restrictions providing an analysis for each participant.

The program is suitable for anyone from basic to the advanced performers.

• Contemporary Partnering - Yuki Ishiguro, Location: George

Dancers will learn the partnering phrase from Yu.S.Artistry's repertory.

• Pilates for Dancers - Maureen Gorman, Location: Sands

Dancers will utilize the Pilates method as a modality to discover the body’s capacity for movement. The class design aids dancers to discover new skills the body is capable of and that are not normally attempted in a typical dance class. With the use of the body’s powerhouse, dancers will move to Joseph Pilates original mat exercises designed to build strength, flexibility, and stamina. This class will involve personal investigation and the use of partners as an approach for community building. The class will begin with an emphasis on strengthening stabilizer muscle groups through simple movement sequences. As these muscle groups become activated the movement sequences will build to become more complex, inspiring dancers to work outside of their comfort zone. Movers will be challenged via balance, complex coordination, range of motion, all while mindfully learning new movement patterns. Participants will learn to trust their own body’s ability to complete new skills which require a culmination of strength and flexibility. These skills can be added to their dancer toolbox and overall understanding of Movement.

• Making Dances - Tammy Carrasco, Location: A13

This workshop is the first step to dancing with others. With trust as the foundation of partnership both in and out of the dance studio, this movement workshop explores exercises that require participants to trust their partners and support their peers. Expect group work, solo work, and work in pairs. The class offers exciting and challenging ways of using movement to face fears, build trust, and grow as dancers in the company of others.

• Contemporary Jazz - Vanessa Martínez de Baños and Ashley Carter, Location: George

We will start each class with a warm up working on strength, stretch and basic ballet/jazz technique. For Contemporary we will teach a class routine, working on musicality, technique, strength and performance skills

• Mind-Body Modern - Heather Acomb, Location: Sands

In a supportive environment, this class will explore a dynamic approach to breath support, weight sensing, core support, space harmony, and effort. With an open structure, we will investigate somatic-based movement from the lenses of Bill Evans Technique, Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analysis, and contemporary dance coupled with the physical and philosophical principles of hatha yoga.  Class will flow between structured movement patterns to sharpen and hone technical skills and improvisation to begin developing personal artistry, offering multiple inroads for full embodiment of the material. A mix of floor work, center work, and large sweeping across the floor phrases will be presented in a way that is appropriate for all levels of movers and offers lots of freedom to honor the individual self- body, mind, and spirit.  

Mind-Body Modern will give participants an opportunity to focus on body awareness, connectivity, and honoring the individual self while playfully enjoying being in the present moment!

• Mask & Movement - Daystar/Rosalie Jones, Location: A13

“THE MASK” as an artistic and theatrical device used in dance and theatre training to reveal those traits of personality that might otherwise be considered “concealed” from the onlooker. Participants will begin with the Neutral Body in the Neutral Mask and progress into movement originating in various Body Movement Centers with and without locomotion.  Transition into an Animal or Character Mask chosen by the participant will begin with the Protocols of Respect for the Mask and how to “Assume the Mask”, i.e., how to enter and exit the Mask. In this chosen Mask, the participant will find the Mask’s breath, posture, gesture, locomotion and intention. Each participant will show the Found Character before the group for reflection and critique.  Now, these Animal and Character characters will be explored through directed improvisation followed by small duet and trio Encounters. Finally, if time permits, participants can choose to work solo or in a small ensemble to interact with a “Found Object” that each has brought to class. Objects should be large enough to be easily seen in performance and of size and weight to be easily carried about. Instructor will bring all Neutral, Animal and Character masks as well as several Found Objects for the improvisations. Participants are asked to bring their own Found Object if possible.  Studio with mirrors and an audio CD player are requested for this class.

Note: Neutral Mask is a featureless mask developed from the French classical mime tradition, for the purpose of focusing attention from the face of the performer to his/her bodily movement, which leads to understanding of self and character. The Animal Mask can be explored for its own sake or as a route to find human characteristics. The Character Mask enables the performer to find and illustrate the age, behavioral mannerism and intentions of the character. 

• Partnering & Floorwork - Vanessa Martínez de Baños and Ashley Carter, Location: George

We will start each class with a warmup working on strength, stretch and basic ballet/jazz technique. For Partnering and Floor-work we will work and break down basics in partnering and safe ways to use the floor using weight, balance, core.

• Jazz Dance - Paula Peters, Location: Sands

This Jazz Dance class explores the fundamentals of African and Black Diasporic movement and cultural principles of community, language, musicality, and physicality. Class includes a warm-up using the principles of improvisation, call and response, and group interaction, with center floor combinations which celebrate community, all set to a wide variety of historical jazz and current popular music. This class will engage students to gain physicalized and intellectual understanding that jazz dance movements, rhythm, musicality, and classroom environment are rooted in the African and Black Diaspora. This class welcomes all levels, ages, and abilities.

• Bodies & Objectification - Stephanie Fittro, Location: A13

This class is for only for women or women-identifying.

• Jumps & Turns - Vanessa Martínez de Baños and Ashley Carter, Location: George

We will start each class with a warm up working on strength, stretch and basic ballet/jazz technique. For the jumps and turns we will go into progressions across the floor building into more difficult elements. Spotting, traveling, covering space, using your body in space as you perfect the technical aspects of dance.

• Contemporary Ballet - Zachary Frazee, Location: George

This class will explore the intersection between classical line and contemporary movement aesthetics that contribute to the virtuosity and complexity of contemporary ballet. With an emphasis on the spine, use of momentum and pathways of energy, this class will progress through barre and center work within a similar structure to that of a standard ballet class, and will culminate with original phrasework that embodies the concepts explored throughout the preceding combinations. Geared towards Intermediate/Advanced dancers, this class will draw upon previous classical and contemporary dance training and challenge dancers to move in new and exciting ways.

Curated Concert - MAD Artists Showcase - Location: Callahan