Explore the fundamentals of contemporary dance with a different focus in each class including floorwork, partnering, musicality, improvisation and more. This series aims to facilitate a judgement-free space to explore movement and tune into your imagination, emotions, and sensations. Classes will include a warm-up, set movement phrases, guided improvisation and choreography. Over six weeks you will gain physical and mental strength as we work both our bodies and imaginations.
Course Details:
Duration: 6 weeks
Level: Beginner
No previous experience is necessary
Drop-ins also available
Course Content:
Strengthening: Build strength in the muscles used in contemporary dance through targeted exercises and proper warm-ups.
Floor work: Learn different methods/transitions to get in and out of contemporary floor work
Improvisation: Become comfortable with improvisation through various movement prompts. Develop new movement pathways in your body and explore new movement textures.
Partnering: Explore contemporary partnering with other students. Learn how to communicate and co-create movement.
Musicality: Learn basic concepts surrounding musicality and ways of relating to music within contemporary dance.
Basic terminology: Familiarize yourself with the essential contemporary dance terminology used in class.
When: Thursdays, April 18th to May 23rd
Where: Main Studio at 366 Adelaide | Unit 120
Time: 7:15 pm-8:45 pm
Full Series: $117+HST
About Alli
Alli Carry is a Toronto-based emerging multidisciplinary dance artist. Throughout her training, she has performed works by choreographers such as Robert Glumbek, Natasha Powell, Alyssa Martin, Hanna Kiel, and Angela Blumberg. Her recent performance credits include Marina Robinson's Unfurl at the Toronto Fringe Festival and a collaboratively choreographed piece entitled Ball Pit in the Dance Made in Canada Festival. Aside from performing as a dancer, Alli is inspired to explore her artistry and produce work through the mediums of choreography, film, photography, and theatre. Most recently, she participated in a two-week choreographic residency (Open Space) provided by The National Ballet of Canada. There she continued to develop her current choreographic work entitled A subject. Alli celebrates collaboration as a pillar for her art practice and creates work through a feminist lens. She aims to make work that is meaningful to a diverse audience while remaining authentic to her unique voice. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Performance Dance with distinction from TMU.