The Art of Falling is a practice that is, first of all, functional. Bailing out of flips and tricks, or simply falling when you trip. Knowing how to fall is hugely important to prevent injury, or at least as a means of reducing an injury’s severity.

Also, it can be cool. A surprise fall is a great way of creating, well, surprise. It's a great means of making a dance dynamic and exciting.

And then, it becomes a creative tool. If you can fall one way, and another, and another, and get up with a different method each time, you have a movement sequence. And movement sequence layered on movement sequence, and you get choreography.

Learn a short movement phrase choreography that works on fundamentals as well as discover new possible movement patterns. Incorporate your personal expression within the structure to make it your own.

Learn some partnering basics on weight sharing, contact work, lifts, and coordination in movements between two bodies. You will learn a simple short dance routine at the end of the session. Come with a friend or make a new friend at the workshop!

This class will explore the integration of mind and body, and improvisation and technique.
 

Through a series of images and cues we remind ourselves of our joy in movement, encouraging deeper awareness and sensitivity and inviting our bodies to embrace more possibilities in range, speed, power and dynamics. Class will culminate in a movement phrase and/or fun and games.
 

Participants are highly encouraged to attend both sessions, or the first session as the second session will build on the first.

Learn a short movement phrase choreography that works on fundamentals as well as discover new possible movement patterns. Incorporate your personal expression within the structure to make it your own.