Class Calendar
We offer classes on Tuesday and Thursday evenings from 7:00 – 8:30PM and on Saturdays from 1:00 – 2:30PM.
Classes are pay-what-you-can and no-one-turned-away-for-lack-of-funds. Please contact us if you have any questions about taking class! Please register for class online (by selecting the class). Scroll down for the class schedule in list form, or peruse through the calendar to the right!
Pricing
We use a pay-what-you-can-model (PWYC) where no one is turned away for lack of funds (NOTAFLOF).
Please register for class in advance! When registering, select your payment amount or NOTAFLOF.
Drop-In
Sliding Scale $5 – $20 per class
Class Passes
We offer discounted classes passes.These rates depend on the extended series teacher. Select the teacher event (below) for more info.
How do we use class fees?
We use class fees to firstly, pay for the studio rental for the respective class and secondly, to compensate the teacher! Additional funds will be used for future studio rentals.
UPCOMING CLASSES
UPCOMING CLASSES
mik + tor, building preparedness (mapping, touching, holding), Class Series- Class #6
DESCRIPTION:we’re researching preparedness through movement practices and through engaging with prepper culture - worlds are ending (in new ways and old) and we want to be prepared emotionally, communally, physically. this series will use modalities of improvisation, contact and weight sharing, phrase work, and group scores/rituals to explore the inherent time it takes to build relationship and intimacy, to learn skills, and to embody real and imagined worlds with rigor. together we’ll explore concepts of making and following maps, slow dancing, constructing and tearing down; we might even make a lyrical routine, just for fun.
LEVEL:classes will be largely improvisational, but some will have phrase work components. this series is open to all movement backgrounds, and we’ll try to give you a heads up on any experience considerations for specific classes within the series. if you have questions about this please reach out to mik or tor!
PAYMENT: Classes are pay-what-you-can, $15-$20 suggested!
COVID PROTOCOLS: Masks required.
As part of this new fancy website, we lose 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction! Help us cover this by making an optional $1 donation every time you register for class!
Thank you!
mikah simone/bd- I’m the love of your life
Saturday February 15th, 2024
1-2:30PM @ CHI Movement Arts Center
1316 S. 9th Street
I’m the love of your life is a contemporary technique dance class exploring the momentum that comes with loving and falling in love with yourself. Through this practice, we seek to somatically understand how the phrase “I am the love of your life” can be turned inward and become a tool in interrogating, observing, and unraveling the oppressive systems we’ve learned and continually perpetuate. Through personal reflection, we will individually use this somatic experience to understand both the questions as well as the ease of experiencing this kind of self love.
In this class we will begin with floorwork, explore and define momentum with a loose movement phrase and create solo phrases defining this feeling.
Masks encouraged.
As part of this new fancy website, we lose 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction! Help us cover this by making an optional $1 donation every time you register for class!
Thank you!
Rodney Murray Moveable Bodies Class Series- Class #7
DESCRIPTION: This advanced-level contemporary class focuses on set exercises that coordinate principles of quickness, motion, falling, and choice-making. Class explores our full-body relationship to space, encouraging dancers to become more fearless, effortless, and dynamic in their actions through movement and choreography.
LEVEL: Open to all; Encouraged for advanced-level dancers seeking to deepen their training.
PAYMENT: Classes are pay-what-you-can, $15-$20 suggested!
As part of this new fancy website, we lose 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction! Help us cover this by making an optional $1 donation every time you register for class!
Thank you!
mik + tor, building preparedness (mapping, touching, holding), Class Series- Class #7
DESCRIPTION:we’re researching preparedness through movement practices and through engaging with prepper culture - worlds are ending (in new ways and old) and we want to be prepared emotionally, communally, physically. this series will use modalities of improvisation, contact and weight sharing, phrase work, and group scores/rituals to explore the inherent time it takes to build relationship and intimacy, to learn skills, and to embody real and imagined worlds with rigor. together we’ll explore concepts of making and following maps, slow dancing, constructing and tearing down; we might even make a lyrical routine, just for fun.
LEVEL:classes will be largely improvisational, but some will have phrase work components. this series is open to all movement backgrounds, and we’ll try to give you a heads up on any experience considerations for specific classes within the series. if you have questions about this please reach out to mik or tor!
PAYMENT: Classes are pay-what-you-can, $15-$20 suggested!
COVID PROTOCOLS: Masks required.
As part of this new fancy website, we lose 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction! Help us cover this by making an optional $1 donation every time you register for class!
Thank you!
jennesa elise lincke- with the wind
Saturday February 22nd, 2024
1-2:30PM @ CHI Movement Arts Center
1316 S. 9th Street
derived from contemporary forms, and dually powered by individual presence and collective breath; this class will create space to negotiate opportunity and obligation. generating various states of airflow through a communal warm up, introspective improvisation, and phrase (re)construction, we'll explore the call to both duty and desire.
open level
As part of this new fancy website, we lose 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction! Help us cover this by making an optional $1 donation every time you register for class!
Thank you!
Rodney Murray Moveable Bodies Class Series- Class #8
DESCRIPTION: This advanced-level contemporary class focuses on set exercises that coordinate principles of quickness, motion, falling, and choice-making. Class explores our full-body relationship to space, encouraging dancers to become more fearless, effortless, and dynamic in their actions through movement and choreography.
LEVEL: Open to all; Encouraged for advanced-level dancers seeking to deepen their training.
PAYMENT: Classes are pay-what-you-can, $15-$20 suggested!
As part of this new fancy website, we lose 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction! Help us cover this by making an optional $1 donation every time you register for class!
Thank you!
mik + tor, building preparedness (mapping, touching, holding), Class Series- Class #8
DESCRIPTION:we’re researching preparedness through movement practices and through engaging with prepper culture - worlds are ending (in new ways and old) and we want to be prepared emotionally, communally, physically. this series will use modalities of improvisation, contact and weight sharing, phrase work, and group scores/rituals to explore the inherent time it takes to build relationship and intimacy, to learn skills, and to embody real and imagined worlds with rigor. together we’ll explore concepts of making and following maps, slow dancing, constructing and tearing down; we might even make a lyrical routine, just for fun.
LEVEL:classes will be largely improvisational, but some will have phrase work components. this series is open to all movement backgrounds, and we’ll try to give you a heads up on any experience considerations for specific classes within the series. if you have questions about this please reach out to mik or tor!
PAYMENT: Classes are pay-what-you-can, $15-$20 suggested!
COVID PROTOCOLS: Masks required.
As part of this new fancy website, we lose 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction! Help us cover this by making an optional $1 donation every time you register for class!
Thank you!
DANCE DANCE FOR LIBERATION: Community Teach-In on Organizing and PACBI with Dancers for Palestine
March 8th, 12:00pm - 2:30pm
Studio 34, 4522 Baltimore Avenue in West Philly
There will be tea and cookies!*
Members of the Dancers for Palestine Lead Organizing Team will share our organizing strategy, successes and challenges in organizing the dance field, and the role of arts and culture in the movement for Palestinian Liberation. We will talk about our attempts to move the dance field into more significant, material solidarity with Palestine through the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI). We will address the dance field’s specific histories and dynamics when it comes to organizing, as well as what dance can teach us about organizing within any discipline or community. We’ll answer questions and brainstorm with attendees about their specific struggles and curiosities, including Philadelphia-specific organizing tactics and potential targets for PACBI campaigns.
Dancers for Palestine (D4P) is an autonomous group of dance workers who organize in solidarity with the global movement for Palestinian liberation. Formed during Israel’s genocidal attack on Gaza beginning in 2023, D4P seeks to both cohere and create a dance community which is vocal and active in its support of the Palestinian people.
D4P is a local and international endeavor with a core organizing group in NYC and an ever expanding network of dancers and organizers working toward a dance field free from complicity in genocide, imperialism, white supremacy, and all systems of oppression. D4P’s work has included protest and direct action, political education events, art-based fundraising, and campaigns to move dance institutions into alignment with the Palestinian Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel and against repressive anti-boycott policies.
To join the movement, email dancersforpalestine@gmail.com and follow us on Instagram @dancers_for_palestine
Co-sponsored by Jewish Voice for Peace-Philadelphia, Mascher Space Cooperative, Philly Dance Share, Vox Populi, La La Lil Jidar, and Yogis for Palestine.
Accessibility
*This is a masked event. Please wear a KN95 mask (or better). You can remove your mask briefly to drink or eat. Please keep in mind that the venue is a mask-optional space, so there might be people passing through the space to attend a yoga class or receive therapy who will not be masked.
Childcare is available upon request.
Studio 34 is a sober space.
Studio 34 is up one flight of stairs.
The first part of the event from 12pm - 1:30pm will be livestreamed for those who are not able to attend in-person. The livestream link will be sent to all registrants the day before the event.
Rodney Murray Moveable Bodies Class Series- Class #6
DESCRIPTION: This advanced-level contemporary class focuses on set exercises that coordinate principles of quickness, motion, falling, and choice-making. Class explores our full-body relationship to space, encouraging dancers to become more fearless, effortless, and dynamic in their actions through movement and choreography.
LEVEL: Open to all; Encouraged for advanced-level dancers seeking to deepen their training.
PAYMENT: Classes are pay-what-you-can, $15-$20 suggested!
As part of this new fancy website, we lose 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction! Help us cover this by making an optional $1 donation every time you register for class!
Thank you!
Vyette Tiya- Awaken the Form
Saturday February 8th, 2024
1-2:30PM @ CHI Movement Arts Center
1316 S. 9th Street
In this class, we will be moving within a contemporary flow, with an emphasis on punctuation, musicality, and curvatures.
We’ll have a full body warm up, greasing our joints and tapping into rhythm. Then, we’ll explore pathways across the space, in/out of the floor, and through improvisation. We’ll build build build into an ooey gooey phrase that moves front, back, side, around, and back again.
Intermediate; all movement can be modified for accessibility.
As part of this new fancy website, we lose 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction! Help us cover this by making an optional $1 donation every time you register for class!
Thank you!
mik + tor, building preparedness (mapping, touching, holding), Class Series- Class #5 CANCELLED (2/6 only)
DESCRIPTION:we’re researching preparedness through movement practices and through engaging with prepper culture - worlds are ending (in new ways and old) and we want to be prepared emotionally, communally, physically. this series will use modalities of improvisation, contact and weight sharing, phrase work, and group scores/rituals to explore the inherent time it takes to build relationship and intimacy, to learn skills, and to embody real and imagined worlds with rigor. together we’ll explore concepts of making and following maps, slow dancing, constructing and tearing down; we might even make a lyrical routine, just for fun.
LEVEL:classes will be largely improvisational, but some will have phrase work components. this series is open to all movement backgrounds, and we’ll try to give you a heads up on any experience considerations for specific classes within the series. if you have questions about this please reach out to mik or tor!
PAYMENT: Classes are pay-what-you-can, $15-$20 suggested!
COVID PROTOCOLS: Masks required.
As part of this new fancy website, we lose 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction! Help us cover this by making an optional $1 donation every time you register for class!
Thank you!
Rodney Murray Moveable Bodies Class Series- Class #5
DESCRIPTION: This advanced-level contemporary class focuses on set exercises that coordinate principles of quickness, motion, falling, and choice-making. Class explores our full-body relationship to space, encouraging dancers to become more fearless, effortless, and dynamic in their actions through movement and choreography.
LEVEL: Open to all; Encouraged for advanced-level dancers seeking to deepen their training.
PAYMENT: Classes are pay-what-you-can, $15-$20 suggested!
As part of this new fancy website, we lose 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction! Help us cover this by making an optional $1 donation every time you register for class!
Thank you!
Allison Smith- Contemporary Technique - Shedding Peripherals
Saturday February 1st, 2024
1-2:30PM @ CHI Movement Arts Center
1316 S. 9th Street
This is a contemporary technique class with an emphasis on weight and groundedness. We will work through exercises that help us shed the mental and physical tension that may hold us in certain patterns, looking to find organic ways of initiating and moving without the extra decoration. This class will be high energy and not-so-serious; we'll be moving to become more in tune with our bodies and push for growth, not to prove ourselves or to look a certain way.
Encouraged for intermediate/advanced dancers
As part of this new fancy website, we lose 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction! Help us cover this by making an optional $1 donation every time you register for class!
Thank you!
mik + tor, building preparedness (mapping, touching, holding), Class Series- Class #4
DESCRIPTION:we’re researching preparedness through movement practices and through engaging with prepper culture - worlds are ending (in new ways and old) and we want to be prepared emotionally, communally, physically. this series will use modalities of improvisation, contact and weight sharing, phrase work, and group scores/rituals to explore the inherent time it takes to build relationship and intimacy, to learn skills, and to embody real and imagined worlds with rigor. together we’ll explore concepts of making and following maps, slow dancing, constructing and tearing down; we might even make a lyrical routine, just for fun.
LEVEL:classes will be largely improvisational, but some will have phrase work components. this series is open to all movement backgrounds, and we’ll try to give you a heads up on any experience considerations for specific classes within the series. if you have questions about this please reach out to mik or tor!
PAYMENT: Classes are pay-what-you-can, $15-$20 suggested!
COVID PROTOCOLS: Masks required.
As part of this new fancy website, we lose 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction! Help us cover this by making an optional $1 donation every time you register for class!
Thank you!
Rodney Murray Moveable Bodies Class Series- Class #4
DESCRIPTION: This advanced-level contemporary class focuses on set exercises that coordinate principles of quickness, motion, falling, and choice-making. Class explores our full-body relationship to space, encouraging dancers to become more fearless, effortless, and dynamic in their actions through movement and choreography.
LEVEL: Open to all; Encouraged for advanced-level dancers seeking to deepen their training.
PAYMENT: Classes are pay-what-you-can, $15-$20 suggested!
As part of this new fancy website, we lose 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction! Help us cover this by making an optional $1 donation every time you register for class!
Thank you!
Michelle Slavik- Movement Alchemy
Saturday January 25th, 2024
1-2:30PM @ CHI Movement Arts Center
1316 S. 9th Street
Class will blend modern and contemporary styles with the intention of finding joy in movement while also building warmth and strength in the body. Class will encourage movers to find their authentic movement voice within improvisation and phrase work.
Modifications will be provided to make movement accessible for all.
Open Level
As part of this new fancy website, we lose 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction! Help us cover this by making an optional $1 donation every time you register for class!
Thank you!
mik + tor, building preparedness (mapping, touching, holding), Class Series- Class #3
DESCRIPTION:we’re researching preparedness through movement practices and through engaging with prepper culture - worlds are ending (in new ways and old) and we want to be prepared emotionally, communally, physically. this series will use modalities of improvisation, contact and weight sharing, phrase work, and group scores/rituals to explore the inherent time it takes to build relationship and intimacy, to learn skills, and to embody real and imagined worlds with rigor. together we’ll explore concepts of making and following maps, slow dancing, constructing and tearing down; we might even make a lyrical routine, just for fun.
LEVEL:classes will be largely improvisational, but some will have phrase work components. this series is open to all movement backgrounds, and we’ll try to give you a heads up on any experience considerations for specific classes within the series. if you have questions about this please reach out to mik or tor!
PAYMENT: Classes are pay-what-you-can, $15-$20 suggested!
COVID PROTOCOLS: Masks required.
As part of this new fancy website, we lose 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction! Help us cover this by making an optional $1 donation every time you register for class!
Thank you!
Rodney Murray Moveable Bodies Class Series- Class #3
DESCRIPTION: This advanced-level contemporary class focuses on set exercises that coordinate principles of quickness, motion, falling, and choice-making. Class explores our full-body relationship to space, encouraging dancers to become more fearless, effortless, and dynamic in their actions through movement and choreography.
LEVEL: Open to all; Encouraged for advanced-level dancers seeking to deepen their training.
PAYMENT: Classes are pay-what-you-can, $15-$20 suggested!
As part of this new fancy website, we lose 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction! Help us cover this by making an optional $1 donation every time you register for class!
Thank you!
Nella- GOO CLASS
Saturday January 18th, 2024
1-2:30PM @ CHI Movement Arts Center
1316 S. 9th Street
Working with "constructed situations", impulse, duration, freedom, and community! This class will be a series of improvisational practices aimed at individual and communal release/re-distribution of energy.
Inspired by music, inclusivity, public spaces, parties, nature, catharsis & more!
GOOGOO!!!
open to all
As part of this new fancy website, we lose 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction! Help us cover this by making an optional $1 donation every time you register for class!
Thank you!
mik + tor, building preparedness (mapping, touching, holding), Class Series- Class #2
DESCRIPTION:we’re researching preparedness through movement practices and through engaging with prepper culture - worlds are ending (in new ways and old) and we want to be prepared emotionally, communally, physically. this series will use modalities of improvisation, contact and weight sharing, phrase work, and group scores/rituals to explore the inherent time it takes to build relationship and intimacy, to learn skills, and to embody real and imagined worlds with rigor. together we’ll explore concepts of making and following maps, slow dancing, constructing and tearing down; we might even make a lyrical routine, just for fun.
LEVEL:classes will be largely improvisational, but some will have phrase work components. this series is open to all movement backgrounds, and we’ll try to give you a heads up on any experience considerations for specific classes within the series. if you have questions about this please reach out to mik or tor!
PAYMENT: Classes are pay-what-you-can, $15-$20 suggested!
COVID PROTOCOLS: Masks required.
As part of this new fancy website, we lose 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction! Help us cover this by making an optional $1 donation every time you register for class!
Thank you!
Rodney Murray Moveable Bodies Class Series- Class #2
DESCRIPTION: This advanced-level contemporary class focuses on set exercises that coordinate principles of quickness, motion, falling, and choice-making. Class explores our full-body relationship to space, encouraging dancers to become more fearless, effortless, and dynamic in their actions through movement and choreography.
LEVEL: Open to all; Encouraged for advanced-level dancers seeking to deepen their training.
PAYMENT: Classes are pay-what-you-can, $15-$20 suggested!
As part of this new fancy website, we lose 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction! Help us cover this by making an optional $1 donation every time you register for class!
Thank you!
Britney C. Johnson- Throw It Back in the New Year
Saturday January 11th, 2024
1-2:30PM @ CHI Movement Arts Center
1316 S. 9th Street
You heard it here first: it's time to move and groove in a 2025 edition hip hop extravaganza! Centered around mid-2000s and 2024 hits and block bangers, we'll be breaking down the basics, working on stage presence and most importantly, having fun. There will be a little something for everyone so come join in on the par-tay! (maybe bring a friend ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ )
Open Level
As part of this new fancy website, we lose 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction! Help us cover this by making an optional $1 donation every time you register for class!
Thank you!
mik + tor, building preparedness (mapping, touching, holding), Class Series- Class #1
DESCRIPTION:we’re researching preparedness through movement practices and through engaging with prepper culture - worlds are ending (in new ways and old) and we want to be prepared emotionally, communally, physically. this series will use modalities of improvisation, contact and weight sharing, phrase work, and group scores/rituals to explore the inherent time it takes to build relationship and intimacy, to learn skills, and to embody real and imagined worlds with rigor. together we’ll explore concepts of making and following maps, slow dancing, constructing and tearing down; we might even make a lyrical routine, just for fun.
LEVEL:classes will be largely improvisational, but some will have phrase work components. this series is open to all movement backgrounds, and we’ll try to give you a heads up on any experience considerations for specific classes within the series. if you have questions about this please reach out to mik or tor!
PAYMENT: Classes are pay-what-you-can, $15-$20 suggested!
COVID PROTOCOLS: Masks required.
As part of this new fancy website, we lose 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction! Help us cover this by making an optional $1 donation every time you register for class!
Thank you!
Rodney Murray Moveable Bodies Class Series- Class #1
DESCRIPTION: This advanced-level contemporary class focuses on set exercises that coordinate principles of quickness, motion, falling, and choice-making. Class explores our full-body relationship to space, encouraging dancers to become more fearless, effortless, and dynamic in their actions through movement and choreography.
LEVEL: Open to all; Encouraged for advanced-level dancers seeking to deepen their training.
PAYMENT: Classes are pay-what-you-can, $15-$20 suggested!
As part of this new fancy website, we lose 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction! Help us cover this by making an optional $1 donation every time you register for class!
Thank you!
shosh- Dance Photography Workshop
Saturday January 4th, 2024
1-2:30PM @ CHI Movement Arts Center
1316 S. 9th Street
Dance Photography Workshop
Are you a photographer interested in working with dancers as your subject? Or a dancer in need of dance photos? Come out to this workshop to learn more about dance photography, meet creatives to connect with, and spruce up your portfolio or website!
For photographers:
Feel free to bring whatever equipment you’d like: tripods, digital and/or film cameras, flash, and/or lighting instruments. Please contact shosh if you’re interested in being involved but don’t have a camera!!
For dancers:
Bring multiple options of outfits including at least one monochromatic outfit and some layering options!
This workshop will be taught casually with lots of space for questions, we will set boundaries as to what is ok with both photographers and movers.
All Levels
Note: After covering the cost of the studio rental ($36), all remaining funds collected from Shosh’s classes will go towards getting Malaika (a Black transmasculine educator in Philadelphia) an electric wheelchair, and covering other living expenses for them.
As part of this new fancy website, we lose 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction! Help us cover this by making an optional $1 donation every time you register for class!
Thank you!
Hip Hop Grooves with Emerald Sims
Saturday December 28th, 2024
1-2:30PM @ CHI Movement Arts Center
1316 S. 9th Street
This class will have a lot of grooving and a healthy amount of footwork! Dancers can expect to move through the space with the goal of being in the “pocket”. There will some freestyle concepts introduced and a combo to help us tie it altogether. This class will be hip hop focused but will draw inspiration from other styles such as contemporary and house.
Intermediate and above
Soul Groove Flow with C. Woods
Saturday December 21st, 2024
1-2:30PM @ CHI Movement Arts Center
1316 S. 9th Street
Expect afro-contemporary flows, floorwork and guided improvisation to ground your mind, body and spirit. We will ignite the power of our vessel exploring movement that activates perception of the senses, weight and texture. Through somatic research, remixing and sampling, let's explore soul embedded possibilities in luscious phrase work.
Intermediate/Advanced
ci forms : tendering velocity with kaijo caggins
Thursday December 19th, 2024
7-8:30PM @ CHI Movement Arts Center
1316 S. 9th Street
contact improvisation forms is a space to practice tuning into the body, being with gravity and leaning into our capacities of not knowing. in ci forms : tendering velocity, we will meet each other where we are, and practice saying no. i am interested in exploring trust + patience in points of contact, spiraling and being in a meditation of listening.
ci forms is open to all dancers with an interest or desire for improvisation!
As part of this new fancy website, we lose 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction! Help us cover this by making an optional $1 donation every time you register for class!
Thank you!
A Floorwork Smorgasbord with Sarah Messenger
Tuesday December 17th, 2024
7-8:30PM @ CHI Movement Arts Center
1316 S. 9th Street
Come explore a variety of floorwork concepts and movements with me. This class will have a little bit of everything from inversions to improv leaving a lot of room to choose your own adventure and move through the class as you like.
Class will start slowly, warming up and juicing up the limbs and joints and then gradually ramp up with some improv work. We’ll start on the floor with a center phrase and progressively work our way to moving in/out of the floor as we move across the space. We’ll finish with a fast, fun, and fierce combination that will make us sweat!
Long pants and long sleeves are recommended since we will be on the floor a lot. I also highly recommend kneepads if you have them.
Intermediate/Advanced
a tale of odes and rumors with Luna Rous
Saturday December 14th, 2024
1-2:30PM @ CHI Movement Arts Center
1316 S. 9th Street
Inspired by the tools I used/ developed/ found while creating my Uarts thesis, the workshop aims to extend the boundaries of the space we inhabit as dancers, performers, and creators. With this workshop, I hope to examine how we can exhibit the becoming of strangeness, asking ourselves how to find where the regular breaks. We will try to get into a sense of alienation by separating our bodies from ourselves and the space, through a series of meditative exercises that grow into partnerwork and improvisation. We will request insanities to enter the space, creeping up through the cracks of the mundane. !!!this is a touch-heavy class!!! We will be sharing weight and allow for transmission of the control over our bodies. Consent is a living, breathing concept, so we will establish rules and indications in case someone’s comfort level has shifted. Let’s play with duration and awkwardness, let’s find extremes in the physical monotony of the beings we so unfortunately became!!! LET’S MOVE WITHOUT DANCING /// DANCE WITHOUT MOVING
open level!
Inciting the Body with Chloe Marie
Thursday December 12th, 2024
7-8:30PM @ CHI Movement Arts Center
1316 S. 9th Street
This class series will focus on awakening, enlivening, and thanking the body for the many ways it supports and moves us. I’m looking forward to sharing these practices, as they have helped me cultivate awareness and presence both inside and outside of movement spaces, and across dance genres.
Masks will be required.
Classes are open to individuals of any and all movement experience.
Working Warmth (Contemporary Forms) with Kayliani Sood
Tuesday December 10th, 2024
7-8:30PM @ CHI Movement Arts Center
1316 S. 9th Street
This class series intends to provide a reliable and lighthearted community space to connect with the body. Each week, we will build a set of methodical warm up ideas that work towards a supple, creative, and dynamic dance practice. We will attend to levels of softness and rigor inside of modern and contemporary dance forms, both choreographic and improvisational. Expect to condition a capacious and dexterous body through floorwork and inversions, and to explore personal and ensemble movement tasks. Contact between dancers will be proposed, but is always optional. This class is appropriate for folks ranging from an advanced beginner to intermediate level of experience in a related movement practice.
This class is appropriate for folks ranging from an advanced beginner to intermediate level of experience in a related movement practice.