Workshops, Intensives, and Master Classes
Come join master class offerings with Wendell Gray II:
Wednesdays, April 1 and 8, 9:30-11:00am
$10-$17 per class, depending on package. Register here!
This class explores aliveness as a practice of appreciation, sensitivity, and wholeness. We will engage with dance as an experiential form that examines the articulation of the body and its ability to listen and make decisions. The class works through a vast range of movements, sensations, and embodiments inside of both improvisation and set material. The material will vary in rhythm, dynamic, and speed while also inviting imagination and fiction as a space for possibility. We will use resourcefulness as a tool for recognizing the life that already exists— the life we are living in this moment, and the life we want to create in the future.
Wendell Gray II is a dancer, choreographer, and educator currently based in New York City, situated on Lenapehoking land. Wendell’s artistic journey has led him to perform with choreographers and artists including Juliana May, Miguel Gutierrez, Tere O’Connor, Joanna Kotze, Jordan Demetrius Lloyd, Pavel Zustiak, Christal Brown, and Kevin Beasley, among many others. Wendell is a 2025-2028 Jerome Hill Fellow, a 2024-2025 Movement Research Artist-in-Residence, and was recently nominated for Outstanding Breakout Choreographer at the 2024-25 Bessie’s. His choreographic works have been shown at Danspace Project, PAGEANT, Coffey Street Studios, Kinosaito Arts Center, Gibney, University of the Arts, Movement Research at Judson Church, Center for Performance Research, Chez Bushwick, and Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance. He has additionally been supported by residency programs, including Sightlines Dance Festival (2023), STUFFED Artist in Residence at Judson Church (2021), Work Up 6.0 Artist at Gibney (2020), and Chez Bushwick (2017). Wendell is an alumnus of the University of the Arts, where he graduated with a BFA in Dance under the direction of Donna Faye Burchfield. Originally hailing from Atlanta, GA, his artistic journey has been enriched by his upbringing in the performing arts. For more, visit wenings.com.