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Jacob’s Pillow 360 Workshops – Contemporary with Shuaib Elhassan
Jacob’s Pillow
The School at Jacob’s Pillow 360 Workshops provide early career, pre-professional and early career dancers ages 14+ an opportunity to learn from acclaimed dancers, teachers, and choreographers. Jacob’s Pillow 360 Workshops are led by esteemed Artist Faculty and distinguished Pillow School Alumni. Offered in a diverse selection of styles, 360 Workshops are designed to inspire […]
The Gathering
dazaun.dance
Join us for The Gathering, an afternoon of creative collaboration and community-building designed for BIPOC artists. This event celebrates movement, dialogue, and connection, offering a dynamic space to explore healing through artistry and movement. The day begins with Praise| Pleasure Lab, a transformative dance class led by acclaimed performance artist Gabriele Christian (12:30–2:00 PM). Following […]
Jacob’s Pillow 360 Workshops – Tap Dance with Sam Weber
Jacob’s Pillow
The School at Jacob’s Pillow 360 Workshops provide early career, pre-professional and early career dancers ages 14+ an opportunity to learn from acclaimed dancers, teachers, and choreographers. Jacob’s Pillow 360 Workshops are led by esteemed Artist Faculty and distinguished Pillow School Alumni. Offered in a diverse selection of styles, 360 Workshops are designed to inspire […]
Community Butoh Class
butohsf
This class is a Butoh based inquiry, exploration, and an energetic invitation to discover "being moved". We will draw from imagistic and somatic teachings. Classes will include practice with Noguchi Taiso, sensing and moving from your own weight, dancing from a sustained quiet state within the chaos, experiments with language and more...
Filipino Folk Dance
MPWRD Artists Collective
We are so excited to be providing space for community to come and learn about Filipino Folk Dance and culture together. This ALL LEVELS class will expose you to pre and post colonial dances of The philippines such as Tinikling, Pangalay, Taddo and many others. The first and third Sunday of the month are free […]
Choreography Workshop—Finding your original voice with ChingChi Yu
ChingchiMoves
Choreography connects our body with our subconscious via movement. We conjure up a magical world where we move through. How to build that, to find the river that flows deep in us? This workshop connects our body and mind using choreography through guided exercises. We will work on approaches to improvisation to generate original material and challenge our […]
practice with Sherwood Chen ROT FESTIVAL
KH Fresh Festival
A relentless torrent of ever-shifting, concrete movements across the floor will develop kinesthetic, rhythmic and motor awareness. These simple, challenging layers intend to defamiliarize our bodies as a strategy to savor them as dynamic, transformative environments. It is a sweaty one-shot inquiry—at once individual and collective—to test limit, drive, scale, fun, rigor, interchange and rhythm.
practice with Sherwood Chen ROT FESTIVAL
KH Fresh Festival
A relentless torrent of ever-shifting, concrete movements across the floor will develop kinesthetic, rhythmic and motor awareness. These simple, challenging layers intend to defamiliarize our bodies as a strategy to savor them as dynamic, transformative environments. It is a sweaty one-shot inquiry—at once individual and collective—to test limit, drive, scale, fun, rigor, interchange and rhythm.
Month For Dancer’s Health – Low Impact Movement for Improved Balance, Coordination and Strength with Cathleen McCarthy
ODC Theater
This class is designed for new exercisers, those returning to exercise, and those who want to ease into movement thoughtfully to re-educate the body. Exercises will include joint mobilization, off balance exercises and fall recovery to improve balance, strengthening exercises for improved posture and respiration. Vision, vestibular, and proprioception exercises will also be included.
practice with gizeh muñiz vengel ROT FESTIVAL
KH Fresh Festival
florwerk This is a dynamic and deep movement practice. I am particularly interested in the somatic process of learning (or remembering) and embodying movement, which allows us to not only train the body for aesthetic and performance purposes but for strengthening our neural pathways that can help us expand our awareness of space, time and […]
practice with Sara Shelton Mann ROT FESTIVAL
KH Fresh Festival
Prompts for comps as improvisational terrain, What do secrets have to do with it/ Feeling into the senses/prompts for comp An improvisational approach to creating States and systems Time and space/foreground and background Action and nuance/personal and impersonal How we made things before we got serious Solo, collaborative, sound, props, what else? It’s fun. No […]
Relationship and Movement
Mihyun Lee
This somatic movement group therapy aims to identify the psychological implications of relationship patterns and improve one's relationships with self and others through a movement study called Laban/Bartenieff Movement Analysis. The facilitator incorporated movement analysis, mirroring movement, and relational dance to promote reparative experience from relational trauma. Participants explore the interconnectedness between interpersonal relationship patterns […]
practice with gizeh muñiz vengel ROT FESTIVAL
KH Fresh Festival
florwerk This is a dynamic and deep movement practice. I am particularly interested in the somatic process of learning (or remembering) and embodying movement, which allows us to not only train the body for aesthetic and performance purposes but for strengthening our neural pathways that can help us expand our awareness of space, time and […]
practice with Sara Shelton Mann ROT FESTIVAL
KH Fresh Festival
Prompts for comps as improvisational terrain, What do secrets have to do with it/ Feeling into the senses/prompts for comp An improvisational approach to creating States and systems Time and space/foreground and background Action and nuance/personal and impersonal How we made things before we got serious Solo, collaborative, sound, props, what else? It’s fun. No […]
Month For Dancer’s Health – Fueling the Theatre Athlete with Libby Parker, MS, RD, CDN, CEDS
ODC Theater
This engaging talk is designed for dancers/performers who face the challenges of long rehearsal days and performance schedules. Participants will learn how to effectively fuel their bodies to maintain optimal health, energy levels, and digestive comfort. The session will focus on practical nutrition strategies, addressing common concerns within the performing arts community from a weight-inclusive, […]
QUEERING ECOLOGIES: ROT edition
KH Fresh Festival
This is a collage, a quilt, a portal, a spell. This is a space where queer energies and potentialities explore, expand, take off!! In this open-ended collaboration we will co-create, synthesize, cry in the corner, decompress, dance like nobody's watching, perform for no one, perform for each other, co-conspire and challenge what is polite. We […]
Dance Sanctuary: Free-Form Somatic Dance for Wellness + Community
The Vortex Bay Area
Dance Sanctuary is a conscious dance gathering that invites you to dance in community for wellness. Free form dance - along with a curated mix of eclectic, nature-inspired music - will be accompanied by intention sharing, reflecting, earth based ritual, drumming, call and response singing, poetic meditation, and more. We will have a short warm-up […]
Intro Series: Bachata with Monica Ascencio
ODC School
Join us for this brand-new intro series! Monica has been in our ODC & R&M community for more than a decade as a staff member and even longer as a dancer, she is excited to open the Community Engagement program series to host a social dance full of joy, exciting movement combinations, and the fundamental […]
Afro Bolivian Dance in San Francisco Carnaval
BCA Dance Company
Join us in celebration of the African Diaspora in Bolivia through Afro Bolivian styles for the San Francisco Carnaval! We are seeking dancers that are able to rehearse in on of our two locations or both. Union City on the 1st and 3rd Saturdays of the month (1800 H St, Union City, CA 94587) and […]
Month For Dancer’s Health – Resilience in Motion: Strengthening the Mind, Body, and Spirit of Performing Artists with Kirsten Olshan
ODC Theater
This workshop aims to provide performers with practical tools to build resilience, manage stress, and cultivate a healthy mindset. Through interactive exercises, discussions, and reflective practices, participants will explore strategies to enhance mental, physical, and emotional resilience. This workshop is aimed at performing artists, including dancers, actors, musicians, and other creatives. Participants will leave the […]
Dancehall Workshop with Nieka OG (from NYC)
Tropicali Dancehall
Learn Dancehall dancing from the Best and Most popular dancer worldwide Nieka OG. Nieka is going to share her signature style, steps, and dope choreography. It's edu-tainment at its best!!! Nieka has worked with such noteworthy artists such as Sean Paul, Spice, AfroB, Skip Marley, H.E.R, J. Balvin, Konshens, Ding Dong Ravers & more. She’s […]
Month For Dancer’s Health – Dancing Upside Down: Considerations for warm-up and progressions with ground-based inversions with Dr. Stephanie Greenspan, DPT and Dr. Alyssa Herrera-Set, DPT
ODC Theater
This workshop provides dancers, dance educators, and healthcare professionals with strategies to enhance safety while teaching and practicing ground-based inversions and acrobatics in dance. We’ll begin with a brief discussion of injuries related to inversions and ground acrobatics and important safety considerations for teaching them. This will be followed by a movement session to prepare […]
Month For Dancer’s Health – Unlocking the Myofacial System for Dancers with Dr. Lea Torelli, DC
ODC Theater
Learn how to unlock the secrets of your myofascial system to improve flexibility, strength, and overall performance on stage. This in-person workshop will be led by Lea Torelli, a former professional dancer turned clinician who focuses on the connection between tension, compression, Chiropractic and dance. You will be guided through techniques and exercises to enhance […]
Carving Your Own Body Speech with Juliana Neves
UC Berkeley Department of Theater, Dance and Performance Studies
Let’s dive deep into both the emotional and physical realms of creative expression! Through a series of dance, improvisation, tasks, and collaborative exercises, participants will first explore and discover an emotional “state” before engaging with the physical body. This approach allows each individual to respond to questions and themes through movement. The intention is to […]
Community Butoh Class
butohsf
This class is a Butoh based inquiry, exploration, and an energetic invitation to discover "being moved". We will draw from imagistic and somatic teachings. Classes will include practice with Noguchi Taiso, sensing and moving from your own weight, dancing from a sustained quiet state within the chaos, experiments with language and more...
