Contemporary Forms: Between Ground and Air
This class weaves guided improvisation, weight sharing, and choreographed phrase work to awaken a three-dimensional sense of the moving body. We’ll begin by tuning into weight, jointedness, and our shifting relationship to gravity, the floor, and one another. Through layered improvisational explorations and dynamic sequences, we’ll investigate principles of weight shift, opposition, and momentum to find efficiency and flow in and out of the floor. We will seek opportunities off the vertical axis and build stability and dimensionality through spiral and weighted release. Students are encouraged to follow curiosity, explore at their own pace, and engage collaboratively within the group. Class structures fluctuate between improvisational research and composed sequences, with moments of reflection and exchange woven throughout to support an ongoing conversation between body, space, and community.
