Release-Based Contemporary

Tuesday’s 10:15-11:45 am + Friday’s 11-12:30 pm

The Rooted Space (*Click to sign up now)

This weekly space is geared towards experienced movers. A low-stakes environment to engage with your movement practice while connecting with community.

My class focuses on efficient release-based phrases. Starting slow and low, with Bartenief fundamentals to tune in first through somatic awareness. We then play with some improvisation tasks, focusing on explorations using gravity, planes of space, the floor as a tool, and clear initiation points while also opening up our connection to each other/the space. The rest of our practice is centered around rich phrase work incorporating and complicating what we explored in our improvisation.

Class phrases are interested in hardly finding verticality, while also making transitions more fluid and seamless. The movement consistently challenges the body to stay relaxed and efficient with the use of our muscles. I am invested in cultivating a space of open conversation about somatic sensory experiences throughout the class, as well as a space for experimenting with pathways that are efficient to your unique anatomy.

upcoming

Any additional 2025 class offerings will be updated here or on my instagram.

Past Events

[taste of class material filmed at The Rooted Space]

Danceworks Summer exchange

Class held representing The Seldoms

Beyond the Container and Beneath The Surface

Workshop held at The Rooted Space

co-taught with Sophie Allen

Columbia College - Grass performance residency Masterclass

Class for modern students in the dance program