tompricedance offers a variety of movement classes for students of all levels.
Contemporary Dance Technique Class (Price) - combines strength building exercises with a momentum-based movement ideology, structured around the traditional model of floor work, standing exercises, and across the floor combinations. The class =incorporates =an eclectic mix of movement experiences with the goal of developing dancers who move with a balance of power, flow, and beauty.
Introduction to Jamaican Dance (Price) - uses warm-up techniques, isolations, and movement phrases from Jamaican Folk forms to prepare; students to learn combinations with an equal emphasis on Jamaican Folk and Jamaican Dancehall styles.
Contemporary Partnering (Price Stevenson) - teaches the basics of weight sharing, trust, commitment, and awareness. Embracing our strengths, weaknesses, and our overall sense of movement style; we how to dance with others in space and time, while discovering more about how we ourselves move.
Improvisation (Price) - Addressing impulse, manipulation, repetition, stillness, unison, opposition, symmetry, and tempo; the classesteaches the tools improvisers employ while& dancing alone and with others.
Yoga (Schweer / Stevenson) - While maintaining a strong commitment to structural alignment, the focus of the class is to open the heart and spirit throughexpansive movement an intimate awareness of breath. Trained at the Laughing Lotus Yoga Center, the class celebrates the tradition of vigorous and ecstatic Hatha Vinyasa.
Pilates (Sand / Chung Camins) - is a system of non-impact exercise concentrating on the deep muscles of the abdomen and spine. Beneficial for dancers and athletes of all levels, the class focuses on understanding and maintaining proper alignment. As students increase in physical awareness and strength, they canexpect a more upright, balanced, and body with less pain and tension, and improved coordination and freedom of movement.
