:: conduit dance class descriptions

Raw Beginning w/ Jessica Hightower
This class allows students to explore movement with curiosity, enjoyment, and creativity while building a strong technical base of support. The warm-up combines the use of standing and floor work and examines the delicate dance between release and control in the body's movements. Phrase work in the center and across the floor will be built upon over the course of the session to give students the ability to gain confidence on executing and fully understanding the movement. Moments of improvisation within the class will give the students the chance to play with their own movement ideas while discovering their own body's habits. Designed for students new to dance, the class with give the body a supportive and enjoyable movement experience.

Slow Intermediate Contemporary Technique w/ Gregg Bielemeier
This class offers a careful approach to basic skills that increase range of motion, body awareness, coordination, and the capacity for movement memory while incorporating the use of breath to promote ease of motion. With a focus on enhancing sound body mechanics, strength, flexibility as well as acquiring fundamental skills and technique, class is designed for the less experienced dance student, those returning to dance after an absence, or those with other forms of movement experience. Students are encouraged to attend on a regular basis, but drop-ins are allowed.

Intermediate Contemporary Technique w/ Gregg Bielemeier
This class explores a unique and idiosyncratic style of movement that is the product of strong technique, experimentation and a sense of humor. Class begins with a standing warm-up that incorporates breath, release and ease in the joints as well as strength, line and form. With an understanding and application of these elements, along with weight and direction, the result is one of whole-bodied dancing where the student is capable of executing simple to elaborate, loose-limbed, space-consuming movement.

Intermediate Contemporary Technique w/ Tere Mathern
Build strength, find flow, and increase agility. Beginning with a floor-based warmup grounded in Bartenieff Fundamentals, and designed to focus the mind, encourage release and clarity of movement through breath, articulation, initiation, and sequencing. Simple repetition of sequences and skill building exercises progress toward complex movement phrases that expand into full travel through space, into and out of the floor, activate three-dimensionality, and build awareness of how the whole body participates in both action and release while dancing.

Repertory Workgroup
Over a compact and collaborative rehearsal process this special workgroup session is designed to offer dancers a focused experience creating, practicing and performing. Performance of the work at the end of the session is optional but encouraged. Following his Saturday technique class, choreographer Gregg Bielemeier will teach movement sections and offer research experiments, including partnering, ensemble, and small group work. Each session will build on the previous weeks materials to refine skills, performance quality and unity. Students will be asked to remember movement specific to their part in the constructed work.

Contact Improv Jam
Contact Improvisation is a physical investigation into gravity, momentum, and weight sharing between two or more bodies. Dancers move with constant attentiveness to their own bodies, impulses, and trajectories, while listening and responding authentically to their partners. The form encourages mindful awareness and mutual exchange. The Tuesday Night Jam is an open, informal space to which dancers of all types and backgrounds are invited to explore their bodies in a kinesthetic relationship to other bodies. The jam is not facilitated, but beginners are welcome and can receive an informal introduction to the form.

class schedule :: descriptions :: workshops :: faculty ::		conduit dance class descriptions Raw Beginning w/ Jessica Hightower This class allows students to explore movement with curiosity, enjoyment, and creativity while building a strong technical base of support. The warm-up combines the use of standing and floor work and examines the delicate dance between release and control in the body's movements. Phrase work in the center and across the floor will be built upon over the course of the session to give students the ability to gain confidence on executing and fully understanding the movement. Moments of improvisation within the class will give the students the chance to play with their own movement ideas while discovering their own body's habits. Designed for students new to dance, the class with give the body a supportive and enjoyable movement experience. Slow Intermediate Contemporary Technique w/ Gregg Bielemeier This class offers a careful approach to basic skills that increase range of motion, body awareness, coordination, and the capacity for movement memory while incorporating the use of breath to promote ease of motion. With a focus on enhancing sound body mechanics, strength, flexibility as well as acquiring fundamental skills and technique, class is designed for the less experienced dance student, those returning to dance after an absence, or those with other forms of movement experience. Students are encouraged to attend on a regular basis, but drop-ins are allowed. Intermediate Contemporary Technique w/ Gregg Bielemeier This class explores a unique and idiosyncratic style of movement that is the product of strong technique, experimentation and a sense of humor. Class begins with a standing warm-up that incorporates breath, release and ease in the joints as well as strength, line and form. With an understanding and application of these elements, along with weight and direction, the result is one of whole-bodied dancing where the student is capable of executing simple to elaborate, loose-limbed, space-consuming movement. Intermediate Contemporary Technique w/ Tere Mathern Build strength, find flow, and increase agility. Beginning with a floor-based warmup grounded in Bartenieff Fundamentals, and designed to focus the mind, encourage release and clarity of movement through breath, articulation, initiation, and sequencing. Simple repetition of sequences and skill building exercises progress toward complex movement phrases that expand into full travel through space, into and out of the floor, activate three-dimensionality, and build awareness of how the whole body participates in both action and release while dancing. Repertory Workgroup Over a compact and collaborative rehearsal process this special workgroup session is designed to offer dancers a focused experience creating, practicing and performing. Performance of the work at the end of the session is optional but encouraged. Following his Saturday technique class, choreographer Gregg Bielemeier will teach movement sections and offer research experiments, including partnering, ensemble, and small group work. Each session will build on the previous weeks materials to refine skills, performance quality and unity. Students will be asked to remember movement specific to their part in the constructed work. Contact Improv Jam Contact Improvisation is a physical investigation into gravity, momentum, and weight sharing between two or more bodies. Dancers move with constant attentiveness to their own bodies, impulses, and trajectories, while listening and responding authentically to their partners. The form encourages mindful awareness and mutual exchange. The Tuesday Night Jam is an open, informal space to which dancers of all types and backgrounds are invited to explore their bodies in a kinesthetic relationship to other bodies. The jam is not facilitated, but beginners are welcome and can receive an informal introduction to the form.