Ongoing Classes and Gatherings
Join us for a series of open classes at TU Dance Center. Teaching artists include Hassan Ingraham, Marcus Jarrell Willis, Laurel Keen, Leslie Parker, Anna Pinault, jess pretty, and Abdo Sayegh Rodriguez.
Regular technique classes are for Intermediate/Advanced dancers. Contemporary Grooves and Contemporary Experiment are designed for all levels and physically active people for GYROKINESIS®.
Contemporary Grooves: Rooted in social dance practices from the African diaspora, this contemporary dance class explores rhythms, footwork, and grooves drawn from the lineages of house, jazz, and popular culture. Together, we will investigate improvisation, social choreographies, and musicality through movement that invites us to be off balance, shift weight, and fall into unexpected rhythms and directions. Themes of togetherness, witnessing, stamina, and strength will guide our time as we lean into personal and collective growth edges. We’ll explore how to be light in our feet and heavy in our pelvis, dancing with nuance, slowness, and presence. This class is an invitation to move deeply, take risks, and be seen while dancing together.
Contemporary Experiment: This class session is an improvisation. The focus of the class is primarily the individual body as a site/map for exploration. It is an embodied practice that expands capacity for a more nuanced, rigorous, and sensory approach to space, time, and energy to integrate the thinking-body with real-time presence, and to play with physical range while increasing flexibility of the spine for a deepening in awareness of strength and endurance. In this class, empathetic exchanges using collaboration in movement studies are significant to amplify grounded power, intuitive connection to the body and place, navigating dissent, and honing clarity in timing and rhythm.
The GYROKINESIS® Method is a movement method that addresses the entire body, opening energy pathways, stimulating the nervous system, increasing range of motion and creating functional strength through rhythmic, flowing movement sequences. It is an original and unique method that coordinates movement, breath and mental focus. The GYROKINESIS® Method is practiced on a mat and chair.
Please check the Open Class Calendar as classes and/or teaching artists might change.
Cost: $17/class or $150/10 classes