Taught by Jody Oberfelder.

Dance Class Description:

The warm-up strives to make the floor a partner in movement, including variations on yoga, releasing, gymnastics, and Pilates.  Improvisation is introduced as dancers resource their own unique energetic coils.  Inverted movement will be explored: head, hand, and forearm stands teach the upper body and arms the same skills needed for legs and feet.  Learning this control leads to abandon and gives one freedom to using a full range of movement without fear.  This will lead to energetic and explosive phrase work that involves whole body integration in all relations to gravity, involving upright and inverted moving.

Jody Oberfelder (Artistic Director/Choreographer) voted "Outstanding Choreographer" in the FringeNYC Festival, creates strong, athletic post-modern works, as well as opera and theater pieces. Her recent forays include choreographing a new take on the classic epic Dido & Aeneas, commissioned by the Orchestra of St. Luke's, which the NY Times called, "fresh, imaginative, and utterly charming," and Stravinsky's Soldier's Tale, commissioned by Brooklyn Philharmonic and Orchestra New England. The company performs a range of dance works that mine the passion of living with exuberant and poignant choreography.