PANDA [Performance And New Dance Arrivals] are some of the longest programs offered at the Field Center and they are deep dives into living with one another as artists while training daily with established teachers in the field. Daily classes are punctuated by swims in the river, saunas, fresh food from our gardens, long naps in the library, field trips and performances at night.​

PANDA LAB I: CHRISTINA ROBSON + SHANE LARSON 

With Special Guest HEIDI HENDERSON | JULY 11 - 21

SHANE LARSON:

Together we will generate a modular warm up that deepens with task-based repetition, while building new pathways through basic shapes and great music. We learn through doing, rather than ‘performing’, relying on muscle memories to become strong. Architectural forms of the body are created, deconstructed, and recycled within momentum and temperature, allowing us to swing through energetic, unpredictable movements.

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CHRISTINA ROBSON:

This movement class offers a variety of improvisational and set structures aimed to mobilize and ground the body, rewire habits and expand qualitative range. Practices will fluctuate between solo, duet and group investigations. We will layer episodes of improvisation, weight sharing and choreographed phrasing to build dynamic support around foundational principles of weight shift, opposition, and momentum. We will seek opportunities off the vertical axis and build stability and three-dimensionality through spiral and weighted release. Phrase work is dynamic and expansive, prioritizing efficiency in and out of the floor.