Wed 1st
MB&D Spring Workshop - Class/Process/Play
Megan Bascom & Dancers MB&D will hold our first intensive session of class, process, and play this April! As dancers we have many opportunities for class, but opportunities for process aren’t always as available. Join us for Megan’s all-encompassing technique class followed by two hours of process with the company.
Each day will begin with technique class, offering a Pilates influenced warm up, improvisation and phrase…
10:00am
Body, Mind and Image with K.J. Holmes
Movement Research Body, Mind and Image: Classes will investigate experiential anatomy through the lens of Body-Mind Centering®, developed by Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, focusing on specific systems of the body (skeletal, organ, nerves, fluids, glands), and imagery and the physical imagination through Ideokinesis and the work of Mabel Todd (The Thinking Body) as learned from and with Andre Bernard. We will explore qualities,…
10:00am
Juliette Mapp (Morning Class)
Movement Research The merging of the unconscious life of movement and the conscious attention to physical direction is part of the energizing practice we will explore in each class. We will improvise in order to expand our awareness of breath, weight, tension and release, taking time to notice our body's qualitative presence moment-by-moment. We will follow by dancing within technical forms to expand our range and…
Adv Modern Technique w. Danielle Russo
100 Grand Intermediate/Avdanced Contemporary Technique
Danielle Russo at 100 Grand
Wednesdays from 10am - 12pm
located at: 100 Grand Street NYC (second floor)
Class: $12
ritual flow is a professional intermediate/advanced technique class derivative of Bartenieff and release - inspired training. Class begins with floor exercises aimed to engage and strengthen core muscles, as well as lubricate supporting…
Advanced/Professional Ballet Class
Brooklyn Ballet Advanced/professional level ballet classes. Rotating faculty includes David Fernandez, Nina Goldman, and Matthew Powell. Monday-Friday 11:30-1:00pm
Only $10!
Adv Modern Technique w. Danielle Russo
100 Grand Intermediate/Avdanced Contemporary Technique
Danielle Russo at 100 Grand
Wednesdays from 10am - 12pm
located at: 100 Grand Street NYC (second floor)
Class: $12
ritual flow is a professional intermediate/advanced technique class derivative of Bartenieff and release - inspired training. Class begins with floor exercises aimed to engage and strengthen core muscles, as well as lubricate supporting…
12:30pm
Feldenkrais® with Jimena Paz
Movement Research The Feldenkrais Method® studies the works of our nervous system and our ability to recognize and create movement patterns that are both more efficient and more pleasant. The method emphasizes awareness, distribution of effort/action through the whole self, expanding self-perception and our ability to carry out our intentions. This class is ideal for dancers and people from different backgrounds interested…
2:00pm
Alexander Technique - Sarah White-Ayón
Movement Research Alexander Technique looks at the way we carry out our intentions. Often we use a process that is habitual, unconscious, and counterproductive. The technique offers a practice of staying open and alert in the moment, observing our familiar tensions and choosing to move without them. Beginning with the assumption that we are perfectly designed for movement and balance, we engage our mind to undo layers…
4 Hour Pop-Up Work Shop
KEIGWIN + COMPANY Let's Make A Dance: 4 Hour Pop-Up Workshop
Wednesday, April 1 from 4-8pm
at City Center Studios - Studio 4
130 West 56th Street, New York, NY 10019
Register: http://bit.ly/4HourPopUp
$75 | Only 30 Dancers | 18+
4:00pm
C O R E M O T I O N Contemplative Action with Daria Faïn
Movement Research Using the Chinese 5 Element Theory and other cognitive principles we will explore individually and collectively the correlation between the organs, senses, emotions, and the propriety of the material space that surrounds us. This practice implements the development of performative languages for improvisation and composition as it bridges physical, emotional, energetical and intellect awareness. All…
Weekly Wednesday Class Series
Trisha Brown Dance Company TBDC offers a weekly class series from 6:00pm-8:00pm on Wednesday nights at Gibney Dance Center 280 Broadway.
Core principles of Brown’s work, whether aesthetic, compositional, or kinetic, are taught via the creative and physical practices of past and current TBDC dancers. Each teacher offers a unique focus and range of personal experience related to their understanding of Trisha's choreographic…
6:00pm
Skinner Releasing Technique with Karl Anderson
Movement Research SRT facilitates an enhanced awareness of our creativity. This imagery-based Somatic experience intuits ease and healing. Through improvisation and play, we delve deeper inside and shed our notions of style and aesthetics in favor of a more intense personal discovery. Students are encouraged to enter "feeling states" and explore the limitlessness of their multi-dimensional aliveness. SRT makes for a…
Integral Yoga
Abrons Arts Center Integral yoga is a system of hatha yoga that is holistic. This class begins with centering and sound vibration, postures, guided deep relaxation, breathing practices and a brief meditation practice. Bringing students in touch with the physical and the subtle aspects of themselves, learn meditation through focusing on breath and body awareness. Non-competition is encouraged both individually and with…
6:30pm
Contact Improvisation - K.J. Holmes
Movement Research Contact Improvisation is a partnering dance form. Skills such as rolling, releasing, giving and supporting weight, expanding range of spatial concentration, lifting, catching and falling all help one move with and through gravity, share weight in motion, and use momentum and flow in physical contact. These weekly classes, open to people of all levels of movement experience, are informed by the individual…
First Class $5 YOGA FOR EVERYDAY PEOPLE
Dance Theatre of Harlem Come and escape from life’s stressors in this beginner Yoga class designed for everyday people. Learn to strengthen and stretch your body gently to improve overall physical and mental balance. Namaste….
Attire: Loose fitting, comfortable workout clothing. Bare feet or socks. Don't forget your Yoga mat!
Wednesdays, 7-8pm
$5 for your first class! Already took your first class? Bring a friend…
Advanced Aerial Silks
Brooklyn AirSpace Advanced aerial silks classes at Brooklyn AirSpace
Wednesdays 7:30-9pm with Jen Kovacs
$40/class
class is limited to 8 students. sign up at brooklynairspace.com to reserve your spot.
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Thu 2nd
Pilates Mat with Amanda MacLeod
Brooklyn AirSpace Pilates Mat classes with Amanda MacLeod at Brooklyn AirSpace
Tuesdays 8:30-9:30am
Thursdays 8-9am
$16/$13 with our Ground Monthly Membership
more info at brooklynairspace.com
Pilates Reformer Class
Elite Body Pilates Open small group Pilates Reformer classes
www.EliteBodyPilates.net
info@EliteBodyPilates.net
212-717-1302
MB&D Spring Workshop - Class/Process/Play
Megan Bascom & Dancers MB&D will hold our first intensive session of class, process, and play this April! As dancers we have many opportunities for class, but opportunities for process aren’t always as available. Join us for Megan’s all-encompassing technique class followed by two hours of process with the company.
Each day will begin with technique class, offering a Pilates influenced warm up, improvisation and phrase…
PROFESSIONAL TECHNIQUE class with improv/composition by Jim May
Sokolow Ensemble Thursdays & Fridays 10:00-12:00 pm
Jim May will give a demanding technical modern dance barre leading to movement through space whose goal is to develop rhythm, style, expression and an ability or knowledge that can be used in creative expression. The class will culminate into improvisational exercise that develop choreographic ideas based on the artistic works and philosophy of Thomas Hard Benton.…
10:00am
Barbara Mahler-Klein Technique™
Movement Research We are not just a body or a mind. We are unique individuals with spirit and intelligence. The work in class engages us in a process that facilitates change. We work to right the pelvis on top of the legs, with the deep connections closest to the bones, and free the upper body and spine to move with ease and expression. Working on the level of the bone, we can let go of unnecessary tensions and habits…
Advanced/Professional Ballet Class
Brooklyn Ballet Advanced/professional level ballet classes. Rotating faculty includes David Fernandez, Nina Goldman, and Matthew Powell. Monday-Friday 11:30-1:00pm
Only $10!
12:00pm
Janet Panetta - Ballet for Contemporary Dancers
Movement Research MON, TUES, THURS, FRI 12-2pm
Gibney Dance Center
890 Broadway
$17/class ($120 for an 8-Class Card, valid for one month and for this class only. MR Class Cards not applicable.)
As a veteran of the American Ballet Theatre, Janet Panetta also has a broad experience of contemporary dance forms. She has trained dancers in many of the major American companies such as American Ballet Theatre, New York…
PARTNERING CLASS
Elle Erdman & Nicola Collie Now offering a community dance PARTNERING class open to dancers and choreographers. We are two friends and dancers in the NY dance circuit. Our aim is to provide a space for those interested in pursuing dance training, improvisation, choreography and movement research collectively...
WHO : ELLE ERDMAN & NICOLA COLLIE
WHERE : 100 GRAND DANCE https://100grandsoho.wordpress.com/
WHEN : THURSDAYS…
6:00pm
Contact Improvisation - The Basics with Anthony Phillips
Movement Research Contact Improvisation, initiated by dancer Steve Paxton in 1972, is a dance practice that plays with the physics between bodies and gravity. Using partnering skills such as rolling, releasing, weight exchange, falling, lifting and catching, and expanding range of spatial choice, the practice helps one move within sensation and disorientation, access moveable supports and tune to the use of touch, momentum,…
Salsa
Abrons Arts Center Explore the origins of Palladium and Salsa styles from traditional Cuban Son or contra-tiempo. In addition to the steps of Contradanza, Danzón, Changuí, Son, Chachachá, and Bolero, students at every stage of their salsa development will learn rhumba, Conga, mambo, Mozambique, and Casino to broaden their Salsa repertoire.
Teaching artist-Carlos Mateu
Beginner 1- Kathak with Pandit S.N. Charka Ongoing
Lotus Music and Dance Jan 15th - June 25, 2015
Thursdays 6:00-7:00 pm
8 Partial Session Class Card:$160
Single Drop in: $25
Kathak is a North Indian classical dance form that originated in Hindu Temples and was influenced by the Persian and Moghul courts. In Sanskrit, Kathak means "to tell a story". In this class, students will be introduced to the 2 major aspects of Kathak: Abhinaya, the dance/acting of a story or…
BEGINNER Argentine Tango
Ultimate Tango This course is meant for people who either never ever danced Tango or took few classes long time ago or took few lessons quite recently but are not sure what they know or if they are ready for next level.
It’s good to take this course to put all your information in order. You gain the necessary vocabulary and learn all the basic movements to be able to easily follow the explanations in Intermediate…
First Class $5! WEST AFRICAN
Dance Theatre of Harlem West African dance is energetic and expressive. Students will study traditional rhythms and movements from West Africa with dancer, drummer, Master Teacher Zan Myers.
Attire: Comfortable workout clothing and bare feet. Women should bring a Lapa (a large scarf or piece of fabric that can be tied around the waist).
Thursdays, 7-8pm
Take your first class for only $5! Already took your first class?…
BEGINNER Argentine Tango
Ultimate Tango This course is meant for people who either never ever danced Tango or took few classes long time ago or took few lessons quite recently but are not sure what they know or if they are ready for next level.
It’s good to take this course to put all your information in order. You gain the necessary vocabulary and learn all the basic movements to be able to easily follow the explanations in Intermediate…
Barre a Terre
Anabella Lenzu/DanceDrama Find your inner-strength; develop & improve alignment and technique; explore and learn how to efficiently use your body and your energy in a healthy way as instruments of your expression. Through this class, you can increase flexibility and strength, overcome physical difficulties and incorrect posture, and acquire physical awareness to help prevent injuries. Open to all levels of experience.
INTERMEDIATE Argentine Tango
Ultimate Tango This course furthers your knowledge about basic element of tango and extend your steps vocabulary, that can then used in improvisations. You will learn back and forward crosses, back and forward ochos and the difference between the two, giros to the left and right from front or back ochos, paradas and barridas, plus famous sandwich and mordida steps. The material is presented in very organized…
9:30pm
Limon Summer Workshop
Jose Limon Dance Foundation SPRING INTENSIVE 2015
WORKSHOP FOR TEACHERS ~ INTRODUCTORY LEVEL
April 2 – 8
Dresden, Germany
Palucca Hochschule für Tanz
Join Roxane D’Orleans Juste in Germany for an introductory level workshop for teachers. Held over 6-days – Thursday to Saturday and Monday to Wednesday – the Intensive is open to teachers and graduates of teaching programs.
[Roxane teaching] • Introduction…
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Fri 3rd
10:00am
Qi Gong: practicing being and seeing with Melanie Maar
Movement Research In this class I offer space for a self nurturing, awake state, where we can explore and learn about principles of energetic and anatomic dynamics that can benefit people within their own practices and ways. I approach somatic, artistic and psychic as synergetic. We work with methods related to the 5 Element System like Iron Shirt, Sexual Energy Practices and Bagua Circling through image activation,…
10:00am
Juliette Mapp (Morning Class)
Movement Research The merging of the unconscious life of movement and the conscious attention to physical direction is part of the energizing practice we will explore in each class. We will improvise in order to expand our awareness of breath, weight, tension and release, taking time to notice our body's qualitative presence moment-by-moment. We will follow by dancing within technical forms to expand our range and…
$5 classes
Community Ballet $5 Advanced Ballet class session with teachers: Giorgia Bovo, Leigh Schanfein, Bethany Mitchell, Mira Cook and Sandra Chinn -special guest teacher from San Francisco ($10 for this class).
This class is open to the advanced ballet and contemporary dancer. We aim to have fun in a challenging class environment.
cash only please.
Advanced/Professional Ballet Class
Brooklyn Ballet Advanced/professional level ballet classes. Rotating faculty includes David Fernandez, Nina Goldman, and Matthew Powell. Monday-Friday 11:30-1:00pm
Only $10!
12:00pm
Janet Panetta - Ballet for Contemporary Dancers
Movement Research MON, TUES, THURS, FRI 12-2pm
Gibney Dance Center
890 Broadway
$17/class ($120 for an 8-Class Card, valid for one month and for this class only. MR Class Cards not applicable.)
As a veteran of the American Ballet Theatre, Janet Panetta also has a broad experience of contemporary dance forms. She has trained dancers in many of the major American companies such as American Ballet Theatre, New York…
Free Open Sessions at the College of Staten Island
Dance To The People Dance To The People is working on a piece to be presented at the Williamson Theater by next Fall (date TBD). We're holding sessions simultaneously at the College of Staten Island and Brooklyn Arts Exchange. The class section of every session is open to all, the choreography section is for those who would like to commit to a number of meetings in order to be a part of our piece. Please register…
6:00 - 7:15pm - LEVEL 1 Argentine Tango
Argentine Tango Classes NYC When we begin to learn something new in our life it is only natural that we want to progress as fast as possible. And so it’s quite normal that we skip all the important basics as we are so focused on running through all levels of learning.
When we begin we immediately want to be allowed at intermediate level classes, when we are intermediate we want to run to advance classes.
What happens is this:…
6:00pm
Dance classes
McManus Irish Dance Irish dance classes for kids 4& older thru adult.
Classes in Sunnyside and Manhattan.
Email: McManusirishdance@gmail.com
For more info or visit:
www.McManusIrishDance.com
Embodied Freedom in Art & Dance: Spring Feldenkrais Workshop
The Feldenkrais Foundation Pre-Registration $35 Day of Workshop $45
"Years as a ballet dancer have taught me that the restrictions imposed by form can actually enhance our spontaneity and freedom. Good dancers demonstrate this, and I believe the “dance of life” requires it!” ~ Barbara Forbes
Feldenkrais is an artist’s dream come true: a relaxing combination of attention and small movements which improve the way…
7:20 - 8:35pm - LEVEL 2 Argentine Tango
Argentine Tango Classes NYC When we begin to learn something new in our life it is only natural that we want to progress as fast as possible. And so it’s quite normal that we skip all the important basics as we are so focused on running through all levels of learning.
When we begin we immediately want to be allowed at intermediate level classes, when we are intermediate we want to run to advance classes.
What happens is this:…
BEGINNER Argentine Tango
Ultimate Tango This course is meant for people who either never ever danced Tango or took few classes long time ago or took few lessons quite recently but are not sure what they know or if they are ready for next level.
It’s good to take this course to put all your information in order. You gain the necessary vocabulary and learn all the basic movements to be able to easily follow the explanations in Intermediate…
8:40 - 9:55pm - LEVEL 3 Argentine Tango
Argentine Tango Classes NYC When we begin to learn something new in our life it is only natural that we want to progress as fast as possible. And so it’s quite normal that we skip all the important basics as we are so focused on running through all levels of learning.
When we begin we immediately want to be allowed at intermediate level classes, when we are intermediate we want to run to advance classes.
What happens is this:…
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Sat 4th
Nassau Coliseum Performance Opportunity- Registration begins now!
Alex Ray Studios Inc. As the NY Islanders prepare to host their last season on Long Island, Alex Ray Studios Inc. has been asked to perform during their last home game event at Nassau Coliseum. We are currently enrollling students for our ballet and lyrical/ contemporary program for students from the ages of 3-22yrs.
Ballet I (3-5 yrs.)
Ballet II (6-9 yrs.)
Lyrical I (10-13 yrs.)
Lyrical II (14-17 yrs.)
Lyrical…
Pilates Tower Class
Elite Body Pilates Open classes for small groups on Pilates Tower equipment
www.EliteBodyPilates.net
info@EliteBodyPilates.net
212-717-1302
Salsa Lessons En Español - Advanced Level
JP Linguistics Put on your dancing shoes and join us for Salsa Lessons En Español! This exciting program offers the best of Spanish language and culture designed to keep your feet moving and your brain on its toes. Our Advanced Level class teaches basic Salsa for 1-hour taught completely en Español. Salsa lessons are provided by the experts at Joel Salsa and include native Spanish speakers. This program is…
11:00am
The Athletics of Intimacy, Improvisations
Movement Research Classes combine skills and applications of Body-Mind Centering® systems and patterns of development and evolution, practices of Contact Improvisation, and tunings of somatic approaches within solo, duet (strong emphasis on partnering) and ensemble dancing. I am interested in the very physical, sensorial and imaginative, and in discovering new challenges and risks within our movement, of both body…
Using Your Voice
Third Rail Projects Led by Marissa Nielsen-Pincus, Associate Artistic Director of Third Rail Projects and Body-Mind Centering® practitioner
The ability to control your voice when speaking in different environments is an important skill for both performance and everyday life. This two-part workshop looks at vocalization from a somatic perspective, looking at breath, sound, and speech through anatomy, physiology and…
Adult Pointe Class
Peridance Pointe with Kat Wildish serves students at all levels of pointe technique, from beginners in their first time up in the shoes to seasoned professionals maintaining fundamentals. Starting with an intense barre warm-up series to strengthen deep muscles in the legs and feet, the class progresses slowly to center work and variation practice. A different piece of classical repertoire will be taught and…
4:30pm
Workshop with Susan Rethorst
Movement Research A Choreographic Mind
I teach from the point of view that making is an endless quest with ever shifting ground. I encourage an attitude of fueling work with one's questions, not regarding plans or themes as prerequisites. I regard teaching as a conversational mode; my exercises are proposals in action. I am interested in giving students the ability to recognize and access states necessary to making…
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Sun 5th
LEIMAY Weekly Performance Lab
leimay LEIMAY weekly lab is led by artistic director Ximena Garnica and open to performers with keen physical and sensory ability interested in working with LEIMAY and being considered for future projects. It is a donation based drop-in movement exploration based class. Manipulation of space, time and body through the transformation of embodied imagery are a key element in the work of LEIMAY’s performers.
LEIMAY…
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