Upcoming Classes
No scheduled classes, but please check regularly for updates, as new classes may be added.
My Contemporary Technique Class is designed to prepare dancers for a wide range of contemporary choreographic styles and processes as encountered in professional situations.
It consists of floor work, body conditioning, movement etudes, and structured improvisation. Incorporating elements adapted from yoga, Pilates, Gaga technique, and Forsythe Improvisation, it establishes a safe but challenging environment for exploration. Dancers investigate movement initiation from different points in the body and learn strategies for efficient level changes. As the class cycles through set material, task-based and story-based improvisation, students build coordination, strength, clarity of movement/intention, movement quality, and creativity.
My Ballet Class incorporates favorite elements of the American, French, and Russian schools. My primary emphasis is on coordination of the upper and lower body as the basis for holistic and connected movement. From the beginning of the barre, rhythm and alignment create the base for healthy and efficient center work. Placement of the spine and pelvis facilitates functional rotation from the hips. Clarity, speed, and articulation of footwork are of key importance. Dancers are challenged to make interpretive choices regarding musicality, phrasing, and focus.
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Peridance Calendar here. (Hybrid classes available)
NYCommunityBallet classes are in-person @ Battery Dance & on Zoom, with RSVP the night before to nycommunityballet@gmail.com
Ballet
Ballet class will consist of a 45 minute barre (taught in the MUNZ Method) and 45 minutes of center exercises.
With its emphasis on functional oppositional movement and fascia regeneration, MUNZ BARRE® is a truly 3D experience of ballet class – one where we feel the body working as a whole, rather than a series of disconnected parts. These organically patterned movements allow the dancer to find functional and organic turnout via sequential spirals through the spine and diagonals that expand and contract across the body.
In center work, emphasis is placed on coordination of the upper and lower body as the basis for holistic and connected movement. Clarity, speed, and articulation of footwork are of key importance. Dancers are challenged to make interpretive choices regarding musicality, phrasing, and focus.
Learn more about the groundbreaking MUNZ BARRE® here.
Contemporary Class
Contemporary Class will consist of structured improvisation, conditioning and new choreographic phrasework.
Incorporating elements of yoga and the Feldenkrais Method, Pigeonwing technique establishes a safe but challenging environment for exploration. Dancers investigate movement initiation from different points in the body and learn strategies for efficient level changes. As we cycle through movement puzzles and textures, we will build coordination, strength, clarity of movement/intention, movement quality, and creativity.
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