Energy, Effort, Freedom & Ride! Challenge Movement Habits and Find Anew in Moving and Dance Making

Raw, Expressive, Musically inspired and Embodied Dancing Experience the fundamental concepts of dance; alignment, balance, centering and momentum with an additional benefit of challenging an individual’s physical habits both in learning and performing. The warm-up exercises will incorporate conditioning and somatic exploration. Guided improvisation and developed phrase work will be used as a means of generating material and excavating content to feed our creative curiosity.

Energy & Effort Jazz 

with Jennifer Glaws

Raw, expressive, and musically driven dance.  In this class, jazz will be approached as the container for specificity of effort, energy and style in dance.  The class will be explored through the lens of weighted movement and dynamic intention.  A fusion of jazz related styles serves as the basis for investigating rhythmic complexity and dynamics to a variety of different sound tracks