Class

As a teacher, I'm most interested in engaging students beyond the traditional dance class format. Utilizing improvisational movement games and task-based exercises, my classes activate child-like glee as students unearth their ingenuity and creative impulses, and conclude with restorative exercises to nurture catharsis and holistic healing. I have taught and facilitated movement creation and improvisation workshops for both kids and adults nationally and internationally, co-conducted month-long contemporary dance intensives for BFA graduates in New York, and instructed private lessons in freestyle theory, contemporary, and hip hop. With decades of insight, and a well-rounded, diverse movement vocabulary to pull from, and a warm goofiness, my classes will guide you to find your own unique entryway into a fulfilling relationship with dance.

Movement Creation/Improvisation Workshop Sample

Objectives

• Provide a safe environment for participants to express themselves authentically and honestly

• Reinforce dance and movement as a vibrant and effective form of communication

• Instruct participants in unorthodox ways of understanding dance and their bodies anatomically

• Engage participants in a collection of movement exercises that facilitate emotional accessing and the discovery of new kinesthetic pathways

• Allow participants to exercise their creative instinct through task-based improvisation games and structured movement exploration

• Reinforce dance as a means of creating community amongst strangers and as a vehicle of generating positive social relationships through interpersonal movement exploration and vulnerability

• Give participants movement tools and constructs to recall and engage in when removed from the workshop setting

• Utilize dance as a means of emotional and spiritual cleansing and healing

• Illustrate to participants their accomplishments from the day and their capacity/potential as imaginative creative forces

Specific Curricula Available Upon Request