WEEKLY SCHEDULE
Summer 2017

MON	TUES	WED	THUR
Value	Michael ​Figueroa	Callie ​Chapman	MIDDAY ​ ​SHUFFLE
Value	12-2 PM @ Dance  ​Complex​​​	12-2 PM @ Dance  ​Complex​​​	​12-2 PM @ Dance  ​Complex​​

ONGOING CLASSES
Weekly, Long-Term Classes

FALL SESSION: Sept 5 - Dec 21, 2017
When: Tue/Wed @ 12-2 PM
Where: The Dance Complex
536 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA
Price: $5 first-time, $12 drop-in, $50 for a 5-class card

 Michael Figueroa (Tuesday Ongoing)

Class consists of a warm-up involving floor work, weight shifts, and prompted improvisational passes across the floor. Each class ends with the practice of an improvisational score or the execution of a choreographed phrase. The class is designed to activate and develop intuitive/instinctual decision making skills in improvisation; improve memory of long movement phrases; and instill a desire to take risks, violently interrogate action, and make you sweat. 

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Callie Chapman (Wednesday Ongoing)

​Grounded in contemporary/modern styles influenced by Limon, improvisation, ballet, and somatics, this class helps build a solid foundational base for your dance-as-performance training.  Focusing priorities on the dynamic interplay between groundedness and spiraling vertically, we take our vertical off-center, become conscious of the transference of weight, harness the articulation of the joints, hold space in the corners of movement paths, give priority to timing and music and noticing how it drives dynamics and speed, cultivate a sense of space internally and within our dancing space, and execute challenging movement phrases anchored in all these principles.  Each class starts out on the floor with a familiar and consistent exercise to help weight ourselves and activate our core motivators.  From the floor we rise to standing, incorporating traditional and contemporary exercises that warm and motivate focusing on specific areas of the body and their interplay.  Across the floor exercises follow and lead up to a phrase which takes themes from the class and incorporates them for exploration.  This class is geared toward professional dancers with an intermediate/advanced level focus.​
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​Irene Hsi (On Hiatus Until Further Notice)

My teaching interest lies in examining what practices prepare us to create dance and/or movement-based performance.  Each class we will begin with connecting to our bodies’ scaffolding, the skeleton, continue through neuromuscular training patterns to awaken muscles, and then I will provide composed dance sequences and improvisational propositions for participants to experiment with. You may recognize some class material from contemporary/post-modern/ballet/yoga traditions. By the end of class, my hope is for participants to expand their expressive range and become more intuitive dancers.

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SHORT SERIES
6- to 8-Week Sessions

Informed Improv Everywhere​
Pop-Up Workshops Throughout The Summer
When: Sat, July 29th @ 11-1 PM
Where: Varies, see class description.
Price: $5 first-time, $6 drop-in

Informed Improv Everywhere with Lonnie Stanton
I love dancing outside or in epic and interesting places. My work and collaborative efforts with Kinesis Project Dance Theatre, a New York-based site specific dance company, solidified for me that meaningful and mindful dance can happen everywhere.

This series of workshops will explore different locations in Greater Boston, from the Rose Kennedy Greenway to Central Square's Graffiti Alley, through structured improvisational tasks. I will always guide us through a warm up taking in our surroundings and arriving in our bodies. We will work to find comfort and inspiration in taking risks with the space, each other, and others that may be near. Tasks will guide us to play and embrace surrounding structures. We will explore our focus and how to avoid getting stuck in your own improv bubble! We will work to react and make choices in accordance to what the environment needs. How can we make the decision as a group to all find stillness without a set cue? How do you notice strangers watching and allow them to feel welcome and for you to feel confident in what you are exploring? It's all possible, thrilling, and every level and age is welcome. 

This class will take place at a different outdoor location each week (or indoor, if inclement weather). Check our Facebook page for location each week!

MIDDAY SHUFFLE
​One-Time Workshops

FALL SESSION: Sept-Dec 2017
When: Thur @ 12-2 PM
Where: The Dance Complex
536 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA
Price: $5 (cash appreciated)

The Midday Movement Series is thrilled to introduce MIDDAY SHUFFLE: a one-time workshop option that gives new and guest contemporary dance teachers a space to craft their movement practice, start gaining experience, and connect with Boston's dance professionals. For advanced and professional dancers, Midday Shuffle offers an exciting rotating roster of emerging teachers, and at $5 a class, it's easy -and affordable- to try something new! 

See our full fall line-up and learn more about upcoming and previous Shuffle teachers on our Midday Shuffle page!

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